Christian Counseling
Articles on Christian counseling
For women who want to know how faith and professional counseling fit together before they call. Faith is always an invitation here, never a requirement, and never assumed.
Articles in this topic
Is it okay to see a counselor as a Christian?
For women who wonder whether needing counseling means their faith is not working.
Christian counseling and regular counseling, what is the difference?
What actually differs, what stays the same, and why professional standards do not change either way.
Counseling or spiritual direction, which one do I need?
A plain comparison to help you decide which one fits what you are carrying right now.
When prayer has gone quiet
For women whose prayer life has gone quiet and who are afraid of what that means.
Guilt, shame and the grace you cannot feel
For women who know the theology of grace and cannot get it to reach the place that hurts.
Forgiveness when you have been genuinely hurt
What forgiveness is, what it is not, and why it does not mean pretending nothing happened.
Anxiety when you are told to trust God
For women whose anxiety has been treated as a spiritual failure rather than something treatable.
When church has been part of the hurt
For women who love God and are wary of Christian spaces, and want counseling that will not push them.
Do you have to be a Christian to see Lori?
A plain answer for women who are unsure, uninterested in faith, or worried about being preached at.
What actually happens in spiritual direction?
A plain description of a session, who it is for, and how it differs from counseling.
What Christian counseling is and is not
What it means to bring faith into counseling, and what it never means, so you know before you call.
If this is what you are living with right now, you can also read how Lori works with it in counseling: christian counseling. Or browse all of Lori's articles.
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