Faith-Informed Therapy: Embracing Your Story Without Shame

I never wanted to be reached. I wanted to be welcomed, and that meant welcoming my mess, my mistakes, my weaknesses, and even my strengths. It meant welcoming my questions. I always appeared needy, and maybe not "appeared." I WAS in need. What I craved most was acceptance—the ability to walk into any room and feel like I belonged, just as I was.

Even in my most chaotic moments, I longed for someone to talk to, to share what I was going through. But I didn’t want to be judged, and I wasn’t sure anyone would be capable of truly helping me. I knew I needed help, but trust was a different story. That fear of judgment and uncertainty about who I could trust even followed me into church.

I wanted to ask all of my questions without being judged for my faith… or my lack of it. I was even angry at God. Honestly, I wondered: if there was a God, how could He let all of these things happen to me? And that’s really where the heart of faith-informed therapy was born.

As a believer, now strong in my faith and walking with the Lord for many years, it’s been so important for me to create space for a person’s spiritual beliefs, or even their unbelief. Because our beliefs shape how we see life, how we see others, and how we make sense of our pain. It’s the lens we wear.

There are so many people craving healing that honors both their mental health and their relationship with God.

So often, when I work with clients who know God, they’re in a season of questioning Him. They ask, “Where was He when the abuse happened? Why didn’t He come through? Why didn’t He answer my prayer?” We have to make space for these questions. God is not afraid of them. He’s not intimidated. In fact, our questions can be what keeps us engaged with Him.

That’s why my approach to therapy is faith-informed. It simply means integrating the clinical wisdom of mental health with the richness of spiritual understanding. It means I can hold space for your questions, your anger, your doubts, and still offer scripture, prayer, and reflection—without ever compromising evidence-based tools like trauma-informed care, somatic healing, and cognitive processing.

We are spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical beings. When we ignore any part of that, we do ourselves a disservice.

Therapy is not a Bible study. It’s not just prayer. We don’t “pray the depression away.”

Faith-informed therapy is rooted in clinical integrity and honors your spiritual walk as a vital part of your healing.

A client once said to me, “You’re not the typical Christian therapist.” And as we unpacked that, they shared that their past experience was being told to pray away their anxiety, while being judged and condemned for their questions.

That’s the opposite of faith-informed therapy.

With me, you’re encouraged to bring raw, real emotions—anger, grief, doubt, joy. It’s about treating your mind, body, and spirit as deeply interconnected. It’s client-led, which means you get to decide how much faith language is included.

And it’s clinically sound. I use proven methods to treat trauma, anxiety, depression, grief—whatever obstacle you’re facing. At the same time, you are spiritually safe. There is no shame in your questions. No shame in your doubts. No shame in your deconstruction.

We will debunk harmful messages like, “If you believe in God, you shouldn’t be depressed,” or “Mental illness is a sign of weak faith.” It’s not. And while Romans 8:28 says all things work together for the good of those who love Him, it doesn’t mean it always feels good.

You will never hear me say, “You just need to pray more.” There will be no spiritual bypassing. No well-meaning but harmful clichés.

Faith-informed therapy makes space for both God and grief. For hope and heartbreak. For peace and processing.

Why does this matter? Because your faith is not a barrier to your healing—it’s a bridge.

I don’t want clients to feel like they have to hide parts of themselves.

Faith-informed therapy says: bring it all.

Bring the worship.

Bring the drama.

Bring the trauma.

Bring the silence, the joy, the questions.

God can handle your whole story. And so can therapy.

You are welcome here.

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