Spirituality

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Spiritual Therapy At Collaborative Changes Counseling

Providing counseling does not mean avoiding spirituality.

Integrating spirituality and your faith into counseling can be essential to healing.

All too often, mental health workers leave this area out of their work. However, many clients want their faith incorporated.

In fact, according to a nationwide survey, 83% of Americans believe their spiritual faith and religious beliefs are an integral part of their state of mental and emotional health. Three-quarters of Americans have stated that it’s important to work with a therapist who integrates their values and beliefs into the counseling process.

I understand that those seeking counseling are from many spiritual practices and faith traditions. With these different backgrounds come different values, beliefs, and practices, and I want to honor and integrate them into therapy to the extent you desire.

“I want my faith a part of therapy.”

Josh* grew up in a vibrant faith community with traditions that gave him a sense of grounding. He reflects on a fond time with family going to church and wants some of the same experiences for his own family.

Josh’s spirituality is a source of comfort and strength that he would like to lean more into and support as he comes to therapy.

Many people turn to spirituality under challenging times, leaning on comforting practices and a community to support them.

Research shows a link between spirituality and resilience for many people. If faith and spirituality are a meaningful part of your life, they should undoubtedly be included in the process of deep inner exploration if that is what you want.

“I’m leaving my religion.”

Maybe you’ve been handed a worldview that doesn’t work anymore. Perhaps you’ve experienced spiritual or religious trauma from a faith leader or community. You don’t know what’s happening, but something feels ‘off,’ and you want to address it.

Priscilla* started stepping away from her faith community. She felt more rejection, criticism, and judgment from the people she thought should love and accept her the most with each step she took.

The lack of support made her feel even angrier. But she had to step away because there was too much pain in staying, and this was so hard. She left a significant part of her identity, worldview, and community in walking away, which was disorienting.

In coming to therapy, Priscilla processed the feelings of guilt and shame as she deconstructed her past. She constructed a new worldview and approach that provided a genuinely freeing faith. She now felt a peace that she hadn’t felt in years.

Faith leaders need support too.

We regularly work with faith leaders and clergy and understand the unique challenges they face.

Feelings of isolation and burnout are all too common, and the need for self-care and integrating spiritual practices are needed, combined with empirically backed therapeutic techniques.

Sometimes, it’s important to seek someone who listens, understands, and does not judge. Counseling provides an outlet that helps relieve the challenges that leaders in a faith community face.

Counseling does not need to be separate from faith and spirituality.

Many individuals seek to include their faith and spirituality in counseling sessions. Part of Josh’s needs required a counselor willing to include faith discussions in their sessions. In the case of Priscilla, she needed to reconcile the disappointment she encountered in her faith community and learn how to go beyond those experiences. Being a clergy member or spiritual leader in a faith community is stressful because they are not immune to struggles, whether they are emotional, interpersonal, or spiritual. Counseling provides a means of support and renewal. For those who want to keep discussions of spirituality and faith in their sessions, we can help. *Names changed to protect client confidentiality.elt in years.

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