Meet Dr. Gardner

Dr. Tim Alan Gardner is a licensed mental health professional who has been helping couples save their marriages and experience marriage to the fullest for two decades. In addition to his counseling practice, Tim serves as an Associate Research Fellow on Family Issues with the Sagamore Institute and as an Executive Coach for professionals in a variety of industries.   He also provides psychoanalytic services for various companies as well as not-for-profit organizations. Until recently he served as an Adjunct Professor of Graduate Counseling at two universities but had to resign due to demands on his schedule. Tim is a nationally recognized teacher and author on marriage and family relationships, publishing three books, a major premarital curriculum, a healthy relationships for business curriculum entitled Winning the Workplace Challenge, two DVD resources, over twenty magazine articles and several journal works. He is a sought after conference and seminar speaker as well as a frequent media guest.

Dr. Gardner is considered one of the leading authorities on creating healthy workplace relationships, having conducted marriage and healthy relationship seminars for a variety of corporations, including one Fortune 200 company.  His work in the corporate environment has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Indianapolis Star newspapers.

In addition to his eBook, Save Your Marriage: Proven Principles for Stopping the One You Love from Leaving, Dr. Gardner has written two books that have been published internationally with Random House/WaterBrook:  Sacred Sex: A Spiritual Celebration of Oneness in Marriage, and The Naked Soul: God's Amazing, Everyday Solution to Loneliness.

Previously, Dr. Gardner served on the pastoral staff of a large church in the Midwest for over 12 years and was the founding Executive Director of a  successful multi-staff counseling center in the Indianapolis area.  In his early working years, Tim did everything from build houses to manage a cattle ranch as well as spent time working on the family farm and in the family restaurant business.

A native Texan, Tim has earned a Bachelors from the University of Texas, a Masters from Liberty University, and a Doctorate from Anderson University (and for fun he earned a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, along with his two boys).  He and his beautiful wife of 21 years make their home in Indiana with their three teenagers.