Counseling for Ministry Leaders

Christian leadership is a unique position to be in. We often feel the need to have it together, to be an example, and as a result often don’t feel safe to admit—even to ourselves at times—that we need help. Here’s the reality: Christian leaders struggle with the same fallen realities as everyone else. We’ve endured sexual abuse, we’ve had narcissistic parents, we drink too much, or feel deep shame about our sexuality, we or a partner has used porn, or we’ve used sex online, we face eating disorders, unfaithful partners, and at times we’ve felt let down and forgotten by God.

INDIVIDUAL Counseling

Let therapy be a place where you can wrestle with the Lord in a safe place that deeply honors and understands where you are coming from. I personally know what it’s like to be in Christian leadership at a church, and the difficult position of not being able to be fully honest about your shame, regrets and loss. Over the years I’ve worked with enough pastor’s adult children, wives, pastors, and elder’s families to know the difficult constraints you’re in, but that the need for help persists. Where is a Christian leader to go to wrestle with what God has allowed in their life; to heal from the sexual shame from their childhood; to grieve that the ways their parent hurt them; and to weep over the broken ways we function to stay safe from pain?

Come to a safe place where you can heal. Where you can wrestle with God, heal from shame, be honest before God and yourself about your deepest achings and come out the other side whole, resilient and with a deep trust in God’s love for you and faith in his hand.

Couples Counseling

If you are in ministry and your marriage is struggling this can be a very isolating place to be. I offer a space for couples to be honest about what they’re facing and work through pain, sorrow and detachment to a place of being known, seen and held by your partner. Whether your marriage is dealing with an affair, betrayal, work addiction, or sexual shame and disconnection, counseling can bring healing to both of you, one step at a time.

Don’t wait until so much hurt has occurred that it’s too painful to come back from. We will work together to bring restoration.