“Christian counseling” means very different things from one practice to the next. Sometimes it describes real, thoughtful work that genuinely integrates a person’s faith into their healing. Other times it’s mostly a label — a way of signaling shared belief, without describing anything the therapist actually does differently in the room. What most people are looking for is a therapist who won’t dismiss their faith, won’t impose a different one, and knows how to work within what they believe. That I do, with everyone whose beliefs are important to them. I’m a person of faith myself, and much of my career has been spent helping people heal in a way that honors their beliefs rather than sidelining them. So if by “Christian counseling” you mean therapy where your faith is understood, 

respected, and as central to our work as you want it to be, then yes — that’s exactly what this is. If you mean something more specific, reach out and I’m glad to talk about whether we’re a good fit. 

No. You need one who knows how to work within your faith — who can help you become whole on your own terms, inside your own tradition, rather than pulling you away from it or ignoring it. As a chaplain, I’ve walked alongside people across many traditions, and many with none, meeting each person where they are without assuming. What matters isn’t that I share your particular beliefs; it’s that I know how to honor them and help you heal in a way that’s true to them. 

Your beliefs are safe here. If your faith matters to you, you’ve probably worried about what a therapist will do with it — whether they’ll quietly filter you through their own beliefs, set your faith aside because they don’t know how to work with it, or treat it as the problem and steer you away from it. I won’t do any of those. Your faith can be as central or as peripheral to the work as you want it to be, and I’ll follow your lead — I won’t ignore it, I won’t impose my own, and I won’t treat it as the problem. 

For many people, they work best together. If your faith is part of how you understand your life, then leaving it out of therapy is like trying to find your way without looking at the map in your hand. When how you’re living and what you believe fall out of step, that gap itself can quietly feed anxiety, depression, and a sense that something’s wrong at the center — so your faith isn’t a distraction from the work; often it’s central to it. Faith belongs in the conversation, not walled off from it. My job isn’t to take the place of your own faith leaders, but to help you heal and see clearly in a way that’s true to what you believe.