From discussing and clarifying your faith story as a Christian, to identifying and prioritizing your spiritual values, to incorporating tools and practices shaped by research and tradition, we integrate your life with God into the process of therapeutic change.

In a world that can be so harsh, compassion is not just a value but a need. Even more, it was the way of Jesus! Compassion-focused means we will meet your concerns with understanding, context, and kindness as a necessary part of change and healing. Necessary, because it’s also scientifically backed! You can experience compassion - to yourself, from yourself.

Because you and your presenting concerns are unique, a variety of modalities may be pulled from to customize your therapeutic process. One session could focus on understanding your past, while another could be focused on rewiring a belief, while yet another could be focused on practicing nervous-system regulation.

With any therapeutic intervention, we can incorporate spiritual language, values, and practices. So, you'll always have the option of understanding an insight or using a skill from a God-centered perspective.

Ex. Modifying thought patterns with the help of biblical truths

Your body is an intelligent, divine design. It intuitively clues you in when something needs attention or when something has too much. Sweaty palms, impulses to run or hide, “butterflies” in the stomach, and pain in the chest, are all examples of ways that the body is communicating with you. It is important to be connected to the cues of your body because that's how God designed it. In therapy we help you reconnect with and listen to your body's cues and do things that bring calm, change, and integration to your physical reality.

When applicable, we explore how the impact of early relationships (e.g. attachments) may still be affecting present relationships - with self, others, or God - and your worldview around relationships. We might challenge held perspectives or patterns, or work on nurturing your wounds. Your relationships can feel good.

You could choose from hundreds of other counselors. Many who likely are equally beneficial. But, unique to Inner Shalom, you can receive services that are grounded in and guided by biblical values, both in business and in therapy. We take seriously Christian virtues and, therefore, seek to embody and extend these virtues for the welfare of all.