Larry Pemberton, Ph.D.

Welcome to the Healing Hearts website…you are not here by coincidence. You are
here for any number of reasons: Hurt, despair, confusion, betrayal, or one of the
myriad maladies that afflict humans and our relationships.
You have come to the right place. Healing Hearts is a unique group of educated,

trained, experienced, and compassionate therapists working in the most evidence-
based model and approach: Emotionally Focused Therapy. I am proud to be one of them.
I am passionate about:
• Pre-marital and just-married counseling to help you start strong,
• Helping you strengthen or repair your existing marriage/relationship so that it is
even stronger,
• Parenting,
• Stage-of-life issues,
• Trauma,
• Addiction as it impacts relationships.

I have been married for more than 50 years. My wife and I have 3 grown children and 5 grandchildren. I have worked with couples for more than 50 years as a pastor,
conference and retreat leader, therapist in agency and private practice settings, and as a Military Family Life Counselor on 7 assignments to military bases around the world. I have been a therapist at a large prison where I daily encountered men who were the product of and themselves involved in unhealthy, even destructive relationships.

I have a Bachelor’s degree in Biblical Education, a Master’s in Counseling and Human Development, and a Ph.D. in Human Ecology/Family Studies. I have a Biblical worldview but respect other worldviews. I am an educated, experienced, licensed, and certified counselor who is a Christian, but I am not a “Christian” counselor: I don’t have a pulpit in the office. I purpose to show unconditional positive regard for all my clients and work hard to provide a safe space for you to share your struggles and experience relief and healing. I do not impose my faith or beliefs on anyone. However, if you want to explore and leverage Biblical faith, I can certainly help. I will follow your lead on the matter of faith.

We are created for connection, born to bond, and exist most fully in relationship.
Marriage is the most powerful force in the world for either healing or hurt. No one
enters a committed relationship entirely free of woundedness and in marriage those
wounds can be healed. The result is an astounding depth of self- and other awareness that liberates, heals, and empowers individuals and couples for a love never before imagined. That’s what Emotionally Focused Therapy is all about!
As a therapist, I will give you the best of my education, experience, and self to equip
you for the healing and health you crave and deserve.
There is no one without hope!

“You can’t go back and begin again, but you can start from here and make a brand-
new end.”