Why Does God Allow Suffering? 8 Biblical Reasons to Hold Onto Hope
Whitney Akins is a trauma-informed Christian counselor in Weatherford, Texas. She helps clients who feel stuck in emotional pain, spiritual confusion, or dysfunctional relationship patterns find healing through evidence-based mental health practices and a compassionate faith. Whitney integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic therapy, and biblical wisdom to guide clients toward lasting emotional and spiritual wholeness.
How Faith and DBT Skills Can Help You Navigate Self-Harm with Compassion
As a trauma-informed Christian counselor, I teach clients how to use Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills—practical tools for managing overwhelming emotions—alongside their faith in Christ. When paired together, these strategies become not just coping tools but spiritual anchors.
Build Healthy Coping Skills: A Christian Counseling Approach to Emotional Resilience
f you’re a Christian struggling with emotional stress, relationship wounds, or mental health challenges, it’s important to build a coping skills toolbox—a diverse set of helpful strategies you can turn to when life gets hard.
Reparent Your Inner Child: Applying Faith for Secure Attachment
Learn to reparent and heal your inner child
Battle the Inner Critic and Self-Sabotage: Discerning God’s Voice over Your Anxiety
How to Hear God’s voice over your inner critic and anxiety.
Healing Attachment Wounds: Building A Secure Attachment Style with Christian Informed Counseling
Healing Attachment Wounds with Christian Informed Counseling
Manifesting Healing and Emotional Freedom Through Prayer: A Path to Secure Attachment
Prayer offers a powerful space to begin this attachment transformation. When we bring our raw, unfiltered emotions before God, we start to rewrite the inner narrative. Instead of viewing ourselves as unworthy or unloved, we can embrace the truth of God’s word: “You are fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14). Prayer allows us to sit in stillness, to listen for God’s voice, and to surrender our fears and insecurities into His care. Shifting our insecure default patterns in relationships toward secure emotional freedom.
Christian Counseling and Therapy In Texas : Reclaim Yourself and Your Faith
Life’s struggles can leave you feeling hopeless, overwhelmed, and unsure of where to turn. If you’ve endured emotional or spiritual abuse, battled anxiety or depression, or feel stuck in patterns of fear, self-doubt, and broken relationships—you are not alone. At The Therapy House, based in Weatherford, Texas, I offer Christian counseling to help you reclaim your identity, reconnect with your authentic self, and build a life rooted in peace, healing, and spiritual renewal.
Healing This Holiday Season: Christian Counseling in Parker County, Texas
As a trauma-informed Christian therapist in Parker County, Texas, I work with teens and adults navigating emotional challenges like anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and trauma—including religious or spiritual trauma. At The Therapy House, I provide compassionate, evidence-based counseling rooted in both faith and mental health principles, helping you find peace and healing even in life
Teaching Your Teen Gratitude Through Faith: A Guide for Parents
As parents, we want our teens to grow into kind, grateful, and faith-filled individuals. But in a world filled with distractions, comparisons, and pressures, teaching gratitude can feel like an uphill battle. Gratitude, however, is more than just polite manners—it’s a heart posture that shapes their relationship with God and others.
Here are practical ways to teach your teen gratitude, rooted in Christian faith.
Finding Gratitude During the Holidays: Coping With Family Challenges and Trauma
How to Hear God’s Voice When You are Stuck in Suffering?
Am I Playing God and Why is Rest Torture?
I can do it with a broken heart : Faith-Informed IFS Therapy
Healing inner child wound requires self-compassion and acceptance. For Christians, it's helpful to consider how God accepts and heals all parts of ourselves. Internal Family Systems therapy is a unique and inclusive way to accept and heal the big protective parts of our inner world and those small hurt and vulnerable parts. Find relief from the pain of carrying guilt and destructive behaviors.
Building faith while living with scrupulosity type Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Scrupulosity is a form of OCD in which the individual is overly concerned with living out a morally perfect faith. Living with scrupulosity type Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) can be an incredibly challenging experience. These conditions often bring about intense feelings of guilt, fear, and doubt, particularly in matters of salvation and atonement. Common symptoms are constant seeking reassurance, obsessions about sin and salvation, and compulsive religious rituals such as confession and prayer. Research supports that improvements are seen through psychotherapy approaches that include both cognitive and faith-based tools.
When your prayers are intimidating you, it’s a good thing: Moving the mountain of stress in Christian Counseling.
How many times have you found yourself in a crisis and only saw the mountain ahead and not the road in front of you.
The mountain is huge, and impossible to get past. But, the road in front of you may be narrow or even rugged, but it's there. A way out!
Ask yourself, what is in my control and what do I know to be true? The truth is that I am in crisis but I am in control of my next step. The truth is also that I can not manage the mountain alone.
Non-traditional therapy treatments for Anxiety: ACT, Christian IFS, and Self-Compassion
How do we co-exist with our anxiety? How can we compassionately appreciate its efforts but still put it down for a nice nap when it is out of control? I like to use non-typical treatment for anxiety and intrusive thoughts because we are living in a non-typical world.
I find that traditional CBT treatments just don’t do the trick anymore.
How I Fight The Anxiety Bully: From A Christian Counselor
What does your anxiety look like? Mine looks like chronic chatter from a bully that lives in my mind. He tells me that I am a loser, a failure, and that I’m unimportant. My bully also tries to convince me to never progress or grow spiritually or personally. He tries to tell me that binge eating and avoiding responsibilities is a healthy way to cope with stress. He also wants me angry and bitter at the world and those closest to me.
How does God view Boundaries?
The problem is that many of us are never taught how to place and hold a boundary that protects our being. Broadly speaking on behalf of Gen X, we were never taught how to hold space for our own needs and values. We were sort of shot out like a cannon and wished well on our endeavor into personhood. So now, all of us are in therapy trying to learn to do this with all the baggage of kids, mortgages, careers, and aging parents. Overwhelmed much?!!!
When survival mode stole my self-identity, I found it in self-compassion and faith.
I’ve been speaking a lot lately about the difficult process of untangling oneself from years of trauma, anxiety, and fight or flight. This untangling involves forming a self-identity that was suppressed under the chaos of survival mode. Recently, I’ve had several conversations with women and men who have realized that they do not even know themselves.