I am proud of my background and training as an ordained minister. I also want my clients to be clear about my religious past and my commitments to therapy.
My therapy practice is based on research, not religious beliefs.
While my background and training provides me with a foundation to understand a broad spectrum of religious (particularly Christian) thought and expression, my therapy is based on research.
I seek to remain spiritually sensitive and religiously aware. With your permission, I will seek to honor and utilize your spiritual resources and your religious understandings to achieve your personal goals in therapy.
However, I am clear there are times that the research and one's religious beliefs class. Should that become the clash, I will discuss your religious understandings, suggest potential alternatives understandings that might be more compatible with what we know from research, then refer you to the religious practitioner of your choice to decide what religious beliefs you might choose to retain.
You are ultimately entitled to believe as you choose. My practice will remain committed to sharing those alternatives best supported by research.