Experienced Christian counseling for adults and couples in Louisville and online throughout Kentucky, Florida, and Indiana
For many Christians, faith is central to how they understand themselves, their relationships, marriage, difficult seasons of life, and the person they want to become. When you are looking for counseling, you may want a therapist who understands that your faith isn’t something you want to leave outside the counseling room.
With more than 30 years of clinical experience—including 17 years serving as a therapist in Southeast Christian Church’s Counseling Ministry—I provide professional Christian counseling for adults and couples who want their faith meaningfully integrated into the counseling process.
I am a state-licensed mental health professional, licensed as a Psychological Associate in Kentucky and a Mental Health Counselor in Florida and Indiana. My approach brings together Christian faith with experienced clinical care and may incorporate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), attachment-based therapy, somatic and neuroscience-informed approaches, EMDR, and Gottman Method couples therapy.
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What Christian Counseling Looks Like
Sometimes you know how you want to show up but find it difficult to consistently do so. You want to be patient but become reactive. You want to listen but become defensive. You want to trust but find yourself anxious or guarded. You know what you believe and the values you want to live by, yet emotions, past experiences, relationship patterns, or long-standing ways of responding sometimes get in the way.
Counseling can help you understand what is happening beneath those patterns, work through what is difficult, and develop the skills and awareness needed to respond differently.
When Christian counseling is requested, faith and clinical counseling are integrated rather than treated as separate parts of the process. Your relationship with God, Scripture, and the beliefs and values that flow from your faith can be considered alongside psychological, relational, emotional, and physiological understanding.
How faith is integrated into counseling is guided by you. Some clients want their Christian faith to be an active part of sessions. Others prefer primarily clinical counseling with a therapist who understands and respects the importance of their Christian faith and worldview.
Choosing a Licensed Christian Therapist
The title “Christian counselor” can be used by people with very different levels of education, clinical training, credentials, and professional oversight. A Christian counselor is not necessarily a state-licensed mental health professional.
If you are seeking counseling, it is appropriate to ask about a provider’s education, licensure, clinical training, experience, confidentiality practices, and professional accountability.
I have more than 30 years of clinical experience and am licensed to practice as a Psychological Associate in Kentucky and as a Mental Health Counselor in Florida and Indiana. As a licensed mental health professional, I practice under the laws, ethical standards, confidentiality requirements, and regulatory oversight that apply to my professional licenses.
For Christians seeking counseling, this means you do not have to choose between experienced professional mental health care and counseling that takes your Christian faith seriously. When you want faith integrated into counseling, your relationship with God, Scripture, and the beliefs and values that flow from your faith can be incorporated alongside sound clinical care.
30+ Years of Clinical Experience — Including 17 Years at Southeast Christian Church
My approach to Christian counseling has been shaped by more than three decades of clinical work with individuals and couples.
For 17 of those years, I served as a therapist in the Counseling Ministry at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville. That experience gave me the opportunity to work extensively with people for whom Christian faith is central to how they understand themselves, their relationships, their marriages, and the challenges they face.
It also reinforced something I continue to believe today: sound clinical counseling and Christian faith do not have to be separated.
Learn more about my counseling background with the Southeast Christian Church community.
Christian Counseling for Individuals
People seek individual Christian counseling for many different reasons.
You may be navigating anxiety or chronic stress, struggling with emotional reactivity, going through a significant life transition, dealing with difficult relationship patterns, or finding yourself stuck in ways of thinking or responding that you want to change.
You may also be doing relatively well but want to understand yourself better, strengthen important relationships, grow emotionally or spiritually, or live more consistently with the beliefs and values that are important to you.
Individual counseling can help you:
* Understand patterns that influence how you think, feel, and respond
* Manage anxiety, stress, and emotional overwhelm
* Improve emotional regulation
* Navigate relationships and establish healthier boundaries
* Work through difficult life transitions
* Understand how past experiences may be affecting you today
* Challenge negative beliefs and patterns that keep you stuck
* Grow in self-awareness and make more intentional choices
* Live more consistently with your faith, values, and goals
Christian counseling does not assume that emotional struggles are the result of insufficient faith. Psychological, relational, physiological, and spiritual factors can all be relevant to understanding what you are experiencing.
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Christian Marriage Counseling in Louisville, KY
Christian couples seek counseling at many different points in their marriages.
Some come because communication has broken down, trust has been damaged, conflict has become difficult to manage, or they feel increasingly disconnected. Others want to strengthen a good marriage, communicate more effectively, deepen friendship and intimacy, prepare for a new season of life, or become more intentional about the marriage they are building together.
For Christian couples, faith may shape how they understand marriage, commitment, forgiveness, grace, responsibility, trust, intimacy, and the changes they want to make together.
I am Gottman Method Level 3 trained and use Gottman-based assessment, interventions, and practical tools to help couples understand their relationship patterns and build the skills that contribute to a strong, healthy marriage. When couples choose Christian counseling, their relationship with God, Scripture, and the beliefs and values that flow from their faith can be integrated with the relationship work we are doing.
Christian marriage counseling may address communication, recurring conflict, friendship and emotional connection, intimacy, trust and commitment, differences involving faith or spiritual life, major life transitions, and strengthening an already healthy marriage.
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Christian Counseling for Betrayal and Infidelity Recovery
Infidelity or another significant betrayal can affect trust, emotional safety, connection, and the future of a marriage. Christian couples may also find themselves wrestling with questions involving forgiveness, repentance, accountability, commitment, boundaries, and what rebuilding the relationship should look like.
Counseling can provide a structured place to understand what has happened, address the impact of the betrayal, determine what is needed for healing, and work toward rebuilding trust when both partners choose to do so.
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An Integrative Approach to Christian Counseling
Meaningful change often involves more than simply knowing what to do or trying harder. Thoughts, emotions, the nervous system, relationships, past experiences, and learned patterns can all influence how we respond.
Depending on your needs, counseling may incorporate:
* Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
* Gottman Method couples therapy
* Attachment-based therapy
* Somatic and neuroscience-informed approaches
* EMDR
* Trauma-informed care
When Christian counseling is requested, your faith can be integrated with this work rather than treated as something separate from it.
Is Christian Counseling Right for Me?
You do not need to have a particular level of biblical knowledge or feel that your faith is especially strong to choose Christian counseling.
Some clients come with a deeply established faith. Others are wrestling with questions, feeling spiritually disconnected, or wanting their relationship with God to become a more meaningful part of their lives.
What matters is that your faith is important to you and that you want it respected and, when helpful, incorporated into the counseling process.
Christian Counseling in Louisville, Kentucky
I provide in-person Christian counseling for adults and couples at Selah Counseling in Louisville, Kentucky.
11603 Shelbyville Road
Building #2; Suite 5
Louisville, KY 40243
The office is conveniently located in Middletown, just minutes from Southeast Christian Church’s Blankenbaker Campus.
Secure online Christian counseling is also available for clients throughout Kentucky.
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Online Christian Counseling in Florida & Indiana
As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida and Indiana, I provide secure Telehealth Christian counseling for adults and couples located throughout both states.
Florida clients also have the option of limited in-person counseling at my Lakewood Ranch/Bradenton office near University Town Center.
Online counseling gives you the opportunity to choose a therapist based on experience, clinical approach, and fit rather than being limited only to counselors located near your home.
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Getting Started
You do not have to be in crisis to benefit from counseling.
You may be facing anxiety, relationship difficulties, betrayal, stress, or a major transition. You may want to strengthen your marriage, change patterns that have been getting in the way, better understand yourself, or become better equipped for the season ahead.
My goal is to provide experienced professional counseling that recognizes the importance of your Christian faith and helps you work toward meaningful, lasting change.
I offer in-person counseling in Louisville, Kentucky; limited in-person counseling in Lakewood Ranch/Bradenton, Florida; and secure Telehealth counseling for clients located throughout Kentucky, Florida, and Indiana.
Schedule an appointment or a complimentary 15-minute consultation here to get started.