Freedom Rooted in Faith
Faith-integrated psychotherapy for Christians seeking evidence-based care grounded in Christian faith.
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Freedom.”
I believe people are made of mind, body, and soul — and that these three aren't separable. You can't fully care for one in isolation from the others. That conviction shapes how I practice as a Christian therapist, whether or not faith ever comes up in our sessions.
If you've been searching for a Christian therapist or faith-based therapist who takes both your clinical needs and your faith seriously, this is the kind of care I offer.
Where Faith Is Part of the Conversation…
“When we focus on sleep, the nervous system, or the body’s stress response, that isn’t separate from caring for the soul”
Why I Work This Way
There's a passage in 1 Kings 19 that has always stuck with me throughout my formation as a clinician. Elijah is at his lowest point — spent, afraid, ready to give up — and collapses under a broom tree asking God to end his life. God's first response isn't correction. It isn't even a word. It's food. Then sleep. Then more food, more sleep. Only after that does the conversation happen.
I take that seriously in my work. When we focus on your sleep, your nervous system, your body's stress response — that isn't separate from caring for your soul. It's often where the care of the soul has to start. This is especially true with trauma, which tends to sit right at the intersection of theology and physiology. What you believe about God and how your nervous system is regulating are both in play, and treating only one leaves the work half finished. It also shows up in the harder, quieter question of what it looks like to keep trusting God in the middle of something that hasn't resolved yet — when the healing is still in progress and the ending isn't clear.
Freedom as the Goal
2 Corinthians 3:17 says, "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." That's the outcome I want for the people I work with — not just symptom relief, but freedom. Freedom from anxiety. Freedom from the weight of past experience. Freedom from patterns that no longer serve you. And freedom to live in a way that actually lines up with your values and the life you want to build.
Where Faith Meets the Work
“The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out. ”
What does faith integration actually look like?
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Faith-integrated therapy means your Christian beliefs can be meaningfully incorporated into the therapeutic process rather than treated as something separate from your mental health. Depending on your goals, we may explore how your faith shapes the way you understand identity, suffering, relationships, responsibility, forgiveness, hope, and healing.
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It could involve exploring spiritual questions connected to anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationships, or disappointment. We might also examine areas where what you intellectually believe feels different from what you are emotionally experiencing. When appropriate and desired, Scripture, prayer, or other applicable spiritual disciplines may be brought in.
aspects of Christian spiritual life may also become part of the work.
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Those experiences are welcome in therapy. Faith-integrated care does not require you to arrive with tidy theological answers or pretend that everything is spiritually okay. Therapy can provide space to honestly explore doubt, disappointment, shame, anger, unanswered prayer, or confusion without assuming those experiences reflect a failure of faith.
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No. I am practicing as a licensed psychologist, so treatment is grounded in psychological assessment, clinical judgment, established standards of care, and evidence-based psychotherapy. Christian beliefs and spiritual practices can be incorporated into that clinical work when appropriate and applicable to our work together. This differs from pastoral or biblical counseling, where the theological questions are the main focus. Whereas our work focuses on how Spirituality manifests in our current emotional and mental functioning.
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Not necessarily. Faith integration is always guided by your goals, preferences, and what is clinically relevant. For some clients, faith is central to nearly every conversation. For others, it may come up only occasionally. The goal is not to force spiritual content into therapy, but to make room for it when it matters to you.
My clinical approach — Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for trauma, along with CBT, DBT, ACT, and Motivational Interviewing — is the same whether or not faith is part of our conversation. Good therapy is good therapy, and you don't need to share my beliefs to benefit from working with me.
For clients who want it, faith can be woven directly into that work. If you're looking for Christian therapy or faith-integrated care, we can invite the Spirit into the process together and use a framework where your faith isn't an accessory to healing but foundational to it. When faith is part of what you’re seeking in therapy, I don’t treat it as a side note. I integrate Christian faith into the work in a way that is clinically thoughtful, theologically serious, and personally meaningful.
Christ-Centered Care, Grounded in Clinical Practice
Formed in Faith-Integrated Clinical Practice
I received my Bachelor's degree from Biola University and went on to complete my Doctorate at Rosemead School of Psychology, also at Biola. Rosemead's training is distinct in that the integration of Christian faith and clinical psychology isn't an add-on — it's built into the foundation of the program itself. From the earliest stages of my training, I learned to hold rigorous clinical science and a Christian understanding of the human person together, rather than treating them as separate tracks. That formation continues to shape how I practice today.
Christian Therapy Throughout California
I provide faith-integrated therapy for adults throughout California via secure telehealth, with a specialty in trauma, anxiety, depression, and sleep difficulties...
If you're looking for professional psychotherapy that takes both psychological science and Christian faith seriously, I'd be glad to talk with you about whether working together might be a good fit.