For people with a personal faith, spiritual elements can overlap with emotional and relational issues. If your faith is integral to your life and decisions, working with a therapist who shares your values can be an important part of ensuring a good fit.  

Integrating faith is at your discretion. Your spiritual background—along with your faith practices and family influences—can be explored as part of your story in therapy. Just as with any other therapeutic approach, it’s important that you consent before we incorporate spiritual elements into our work. 

How much faith do we integrate? Maybe it’s enough to know that we share the same Christian faith and have that common lens. For others, a more explicit approach that includes prayer and Scripture within our sessions or the work you do at home is important. You lead the way.

How Integration Can Help

Emotional and relational struggles can impact how people see themselves, shape their sense of identity, and influence how they understand God and his view of their worth. In some, abuse or neglect by an attachment figure can transfer into mistrust of God the Father. Others may need to work through issues that are directly spiritual, such as church or spiritual abuse, or misconceptions about God. 

The important thing to know is that I’m okay to go there with you and am trained to do so as a part of my Master’s of Divinity in Clinical Counselling from Tyndale University. I will gladly integrate faith to the extent you desire or need. I welcome you to ask questions about this in our free consultation or intake session.