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.
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.
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.