About Ken Knoechel: Creator of Desirable Mind, LLC

Ken Knoechel is a licensed therapist and a certified life coach. He specializes in helping you discover how to design a life you truly desire to live in. His methods work to train your mind and heart to observe God in your daily experience. Equipped with a love for humanity, Ken has made it his mission to help people like yourself recognize how wonderful life is when you learn to live in harmony with how God created you to be.

Ken earned his Bachelor’s degree in addictions and psychology from Liberty University, then completed graduate studies at Wright State University, focusing on chemical dependency and clinical mental health counseling. After six years at Kettering Health Psychiatric Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, Ken now provides teletherapy and virtual coaching from Chattanooga, Tennessee. When he’s not working, you might find Ken remodeling something around the house, or more excitingly, exploring new places with his wife as they love traveling around the world. 

Ken’s Journey and Approach

Ken’s story began around age 16 when he embarked on what he now recognizes as his own prodigal journey. It was a time of chasing indulgence and losing sight of God’s leading in his life. His mid-20s brought significant loss. Ken’s mother’s died suddenly from cardiomyopathy, followed by his sister’s fatal overdose. At 26, a devastating car accident left Ken in a coma for three weeks with multiple injuries, including two strokes and two brain injuries.

Now, Ken realizes those experiences were used to shape his understanding of what it means to truly create a desirable life. Through comprehensive rehabilitation (spiritual, physical, cognitive, emotional, and social), Ken now what he learned to design psychological principles that are supported by the Word that lead to a greater understanding of your relationship with others, with God, and with yourself.

What Makes Ken’s Work Different

With over eight years of clinical experience, Ken blends solution-focused and person-centered approaches with deep Christian insight. His therapeutic toolbox includes cognitive, behavioral, dialectical, psychodynamic, trauma recovery, and emotionally focused techniques. But what makes Ken compelling isn’t just his academic achievements. His is education in what he calls “the school of Christ” is the foundation of his work.  

Ken specializes in helping people with anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship challenges by teaching them to recognize and focus their deepest desires that God’s created in their heart. His approach focuses on three core principles: cultivating healthy Desire, developing Vulnerable Resilience, and embodying the Fruit of the Spirit in daily life.

In couples work, Ken doesn’t hold back. He’s drives right into what’s really creating disturbance beneath the surface patterns. He’s enjoys helping partners expand beyond the cycles that keep them stuck. His goal is simple: help you create the relationship dynamics that reflect the wonderful relationship you both long to experience.

Ken’s work is grounded in a simple truth: when people learn to honor their God-given freedom to choose while respecting others’ freedom too, relationships and reality begin to shift in beautiful ways.