Christian Counselling Markdale, ON. Find a Christian Therapist Near You.

Clients often find the faith component provides additional resources for coping, change, and growth. Benefits of Christian counselling include: access to spiritual interventions like Scripture, prayer, confession, and forgiveness. Treating issues in marriages, families, and other relationships through a Christian lens. Alignment with the client’s values and worldview. Support for faith-based change and spiritual growth. Empathetic counsellors who share beliefs and perspectives. For clients whose spirituality is central to their identity and mental health, Christian counselling can be especially impactful. It allows them to better integrate their faith into the inner healing process.

I hold a Masters of Divinity in Clinical Counselling from Tyndale University. I also spent over 20 years involved in various Christian Leadership roles. I do not practice or hold to this religion any longer. In my clinical work, I work with clients who are processing spiritual abuse/trauma and I regularly work with clients who are navigating deconstruction. I believe it is important to clarify, I am affirming and fully accepting of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. I consider myself an ally to this community. In my clinical work, I consider it an honour to work with members of this community who have been wounded by the Christian Church.

Exploring spirituality can be a meaningful part of your personal growth and well-being. I provide a space to explore your spiritual beliefs and how they intersect with your mental health. Whether you're seeking to integrate spirituality into your therapeutic process or navigate spiritual challenges, we’ll work together to support your journey in a way that aligns with your values and beliefs. Contact me to schedule a free 15-minute consultation to discuss how spirituality can be part of your healing process.

My approach to counselling is attachment based and trauma informed. I have extensive training in emotionally focused therapy, the gold standard in couple's therapy, which I apply in my work with couples, families, and individuals. Emotionally focused therapy closely parallels the Christian faith in how it understands human personhood and connection. I am trained through a biblical lens and comfortable including faith in the work we will do. During our sessions I take an engaged and active role in the process, focused on helping you to identify the areas where you may be stuck and working with you to make changes aligned with your goals and faith.

Whatever your religious beliefs, your spirituality, your faith, your cultural and family background, we believe that everyone has difficulty with it at times throughout their lives. Sometimes we need someone to be able to talk with about these things that aren't directly connected to our family, or our spiritual dwellings. Sometimes we just need someone unbiased, or someone that believes similar things that we do, because it can be lonely wrestling with our spirituality. Hope Centered Counselling is non-judgmental and wants to be your support system that creates a safe space for you to explore your experience.

For many Christians it can be beneficial to their success in therapy to have a therapist that holds an understanding and respect for their religious and spiritual beliefs. While I do not offer Christian counseling services, at our clinic Psychotherapy Collective, one of our therapists Sarah works with Christian clients to combine evidence based psychotherapeutic techniques with piety, humility, forgiveness, faith development, spiritual development, and community. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation with Sarah to see if she is a good fit for your journey https://www.psychotherapycollective.ca/our-team/therapist/sarah-glinski

Accepting new clients! Are you struggling in your walk with the Lord? Perhaps you feel overwhelmed by life's challenges, and hope seems out of reach. Or maybe your situation is different, and everything around you feels confusing. The more you try to make sense of what's happening in your life, the more confused you become. I am here to help you shed light on those blind spots and discover rays of hope once again. Contact me today! Smile, Jesus loves you!