Christian counseling for couples, individuals, and families.
Online from Youngstown, OH, and available across PsyPact states.
Thoughtful, psychologically grounded care that honors your Christian faith.
You’re looking for therapy that honors your values and your faith.
Panic seems to strike at random. Nightmares and flashbacks seem to control your life. Depression makes it difficult to get out of bed in the morning or care for your children. You feel distant and disconnected from the partner you once loved deeply. Your adult child refuses to answer your calls. You’re questioning your sexuality or gender.
You’ve prayed. You’ve sought counsel. You’ve tried to trust God through it—but the panic, depression, trauma, or relational pain hasn’t simply disappeared. In therapy, you’re looking for:
When mental health struggles persist, they don’t stay neatly contained. They affect your body, your work, your relationships, and often your connection to your church community and your relationship with God. You may feel isolated, misunderstood, or quietly ashamed for still struggling—wondering why faith alone hasn’t healed you.
How Christian psychological treatment works
Christian therapy can help you find relief from mental health symptoms without asking you to set aside your faith, values, or questions about how healing actually works. Our work together focuses on caring for your whole person—mind, body, relationships, and spiritual life.
You can experience freedom to…
Build Christian community
Commune with God, instead of feeling distant from Him or fearful of His judgement
Connect deeply with your partner or other family members
Fulfill daily responsibilities to care for yourself and others
Share struggles authentically with safe people
A thoughtful, paced beginning
Treatment begins with an assessment phase that typically lasts two to three sessions. During this time, we’ll explore your mental health concerns alongside your family, relational, and spiritual history. We’ll also look at the systems you’re part of—marriage, family, church, and work—so your struggles are understood in context, not isolation. By the end of this phase, we’ll have a clear set of goals and a tentative plan that reflects both your needs and your values.
Psychological care grounded in God’s design
The psychological side of therapy draws from what Christians often call general revelation—what God has made known through creation, including brain science, trauma research, and relationship theory.
We’ll talk about how God designed the brain to respond to stress and danger, and why anxiety or trauma responses aren’t signs of weak faith—but signals that something needs care. When these systems become overwhelmed through chronic stress or trauma, therapy helps bring them back into balance.
We’ll also explore how relationships were designed to function, what erodes trust and intimacy over time, and how honesty, humility, and openness to feedback can support deeper connection.
Faith integration, guided by you
Your values and beliefs are respected throughout therapy. Together, we’ll decide how faith is incorporated into our work.
If shame has shaped how you see yourself, we can explore how God sees you and address the beliefs that keep you stuck.
If you want prayer or Scripture woven into sessions, we can do that.
If you want to examine how past church teachings impacted you—and test those beliefs against Scripture—we can walk through that thoughtfully.
If you don’t want to talk about faith directly in session and simply want the safety of working with a fellow believer, that’s okay too.
If the marriage covenant is central to your healing, we’ll treat it with the seriousness it deserves.
Christian therapy is collaborative, not prescriptive. We move at your pace, using language that reflects your understanding and experience, while integrating psychological tools and spiritual resources in ways that feel safe and meaningful to you.
My areas of expertise in Christian Counseling
Christian therapy is not one-size-fits-all. Alongside integrating Christian values, I bring focused experience in several areas where faith, relationships, identity, and life experiences intersect.
Trauma-informed Therapy
For individuals whose past experiences continue to shape their emotions, relationships, or sense of safety
Marriage and Couples Counseling
Including couples with shared faith, differing levels of faith, or mixed-faith relationships
Support for Individuals Questioning their Sexual or Gender Identity
Who wish to examine these issues within the context of religious belief and personal conviction
Family Therapy with Adult and Military Families
Including estrangement, boundary challenges, long-standing relational conflict, and responses to deployments
Individual Therapy
Focused on helping clients understand their role, responses, and patterns within relational or faith-based struggles
Suffering doesn’t mean your faith is weak—and seeking professional help doesn’t mean you’ve failed. You can find relief from what you’re going through and stay rooted in your Christian values. Therapy is one of the many ways God brings healing—through it, providing wise care, honest reflection, and compassionate support.
If you’re looking for thoughtful Christian therapy that impacts both your faith and your mental health, I’m so glad you’re here.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are you a Christian?
Yes. I ’m a Christian, and my faith informs both my life and my work as a psychologist.
Many of my clients are looking for a therapist who can provide evidence-based mental health care while respecting and understanding their Christian beliefs. I see my work as a calling, and I’m intentional about integrating psychological training with a thoughtful, faith-informed approach.
I also understand the hesitation some Christians feel about seeking therapy, especially if they come from church traditions that discouraged psychological care. My goal is to serve clients in a way that honors both faith and wise, professional treatment.
What if I’m a Christian, but my issues don’t really have to do with my faith?
That’s completely okay.
Part of the assessment process is understanding how you want faith to be incorporated into therapy. Some clients want faith to be an active part of sessions, while others simply want the safety of working with a therapist who understands their values—even if faith doesn’t come up often.
We’ll approach therapy in a way that feels respectful, relevant, and aligned with what you’re hoping to address.
Is Christian therapy evidence-based?
Yes. As a psychologist, I’m committed to using treatments that are supported by research and shown to be effective.
I draw from evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), while thoughtfully integrating a client’s faith as part of worldview discussion and meaning-making.
There are also therapies designed specifically for Christian clients that are evidence-based, such as Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling and Sexual Identity Therapy. My goal is always to use approaches that are both effective and aligned with my client’s values.
What issues do you help with in Christian therapy?
I work with individuals, couples, and families on a wide range of concerns while respecting and integrating Christian values.
My areas of specialty include trauma, relationship concerns (through couples, family, or individual therapy), work with military and veteran families, and support for individuals navigating sexual or gender identity questions.
I also provide general counseling for concerns such as anxiety and depression, working from a Christian worldview while using sound psychological care.
Do you do Christian therapy with couples and families?
Yes, as long as everyone is in agreement that Christian integration is wanted.
Couples work is one of my areas of expertise. Many couples seek out therapy because they see their relationship as a covenant, versus a contract, and I can understand and work with this heightened view of marriage. However, if one partner sees faith as unimportant or if there’s a faith conflict between a couple, I will not side with the Christian partner, but instead work ethically with the couple by honoring both of their belief systems.
I also work with families whose faith is an important aspect of family life. I will respect the faith of all family members and help them work through when issues of faith become sticking points in family relationships. I also help families that are committed to their faith work through tricky issues in the context of their spiritual beliefs.
What if I’m not a Christian? Will you try to convert me?
No.
As a psychologist, I’m bound by ethical standards that prohibit imposing personal beliefs on clients. In therapy, my role is to respect your values and support your goals—even if your beliefs differ from my own. Part of my training in religious integration is working ethically with those who have differing faith beliefs (Jewish, for instance), or no religious perspective.
If you’re seeking professional mental health care and want a therapist who will treat you with respect and integrity, you don’t need to worry about therapy being used as a platform for religious persuasion.
What’s the difference between Christian psychological treatment and pastoral counseling?
Christians often seek Christian therapy when experiencing mental health or relational concerns—such as anxiety, depression, trauma, or ongoing relationship distress—and desire care that honors their faith.
Christian psychologists draw from general revelation, which includes research, brain science, and clinical training, alongside respect for a client’s spiritual beliefs. The goal is to reduce symptoms that interfere with daily life while supporting personal values and faith.
Pastoral or biblical counseling typically focuses on special revelation, focusing more directly on spiritual formation and doctrine, often within the theological framework of a specific church, and may emphasize practices like prayer, Bible study, or spiritual direction.
If you’re seeking counseling focused exclusively on spiritual warfare or theological questions unrelated to mental health concerns, pastoral counseling within a faith community may be a better fit.