Christian & Faith-Integrated Therapy

What is faith-integrated therapy?

Faith-integrated therapy means that your spiritual beliefs and values can be thoughtfully incorporated into psychotherapy when they are meaningful to you. Depending on your needs, our work might include exploring: How your faith shapes your understanding of yourself and your relationships Spiritual practices such as prayer, contemplation, or mindfulness Questions about meaning, purpose, suffering, forgiveness, and hope The relationship between faith, anxiety, perfectionism, and self-worth Family, church, and cultural expectations Spiritual experiences that have been supportive or difficult Questions, doubts, or changes in your faith How your values can guide decisions and relationships Developing greater compassion toward yourself and others

Christian Mindfulness: Where Psychology and Faith Meet

My particular area of expertise is Christian mindfulness—an approach that thoughtfully brings mindfulness into conversation with Christian faith and spiritual practice.

Mindfulness is often presented as a secular technique for stress reduction. While those applications can be valuable, I have also been interested in what happens when mindfulness is understood within a Christian framework.

Christian mindfulness can create space for attention, awareness, compassion, presence, and connection with God while also drawing on contemporary psychological understanding of how mindfulness can affect our emotional and relational lives.

In therapy, mindfulness may be used to help you:

• Notice thoughts without automatically believing or reacting to them

• Become more aware of emotions and bodily responses

• Develop greater capacity to sit with difficult experiences

• Respond rather than react

• Practice self-compassion

• Become more present in relationships

• Clarify your values and sense of purpose

• Develop a deeper awareness of your spiritual life

The goal isn't simply to become calmer.

It is to become more present—to yourself, to others, to your values, and, when meaningful to you, to your relationship with God.

My Work as a Christian Mindfulness Researcher

Christian mindfulness is not simply a personal interest of mine. It is also an area of my scholarship and research.

I am a social work professor and researcher whose work has examined mindfulness, Christian mindfulness, and the intersection of spirituality and psychological wellbeing.

I am also the author of an award-winning book on Christian mindfulness, published by HarperCollins Christian.

As a practicing psychotherapist, I bring research-informed clinical knowledge into the therapy room; as a researcher and professor, my clinical experience continues to shape the questions I explore academically.

This intersection of clinical practice, research, teaching, and Christian spirituality is central to my approach.

A Whole-Person Approach

My approach is not about separating your psychological life from your spiritual life.

We may explore the mind, body, relationships, history, culture, values, and faith as interconnected parts of your experience.

Depending on what brings you to therapy, our work may integrate:

Mindfulness · Somatic awareness · Nervous-system regulation · DBT skills · Relational therapy · Existential therapy · Values-based work · Christian spirituality

The specific approach will depend on you—not the other way around.

You Don't Have to Leave Your Faith at the Door

If you're looking for a therapist who understands both clinical training in mental health and Christian spirituality, we can explore whether this approach is right for you.

You don't need to have your faith figured out.

You don't need to know exactly what you want to talk about.

And you don't need to choose between addressing your psychological wellbeing and honoring the spiritual dimensions of your life.

Start with a Free 15-Minute Consultation

A brief consultation gives us an opportunity to talk about what you're looking for and whether we might be a good fit.

Call or text: 626-765-7602