Christian Counseling for Adults and Couples
You shouldn’t have to choose between a therapist who understands trauma and a therapist who understands why your faith matters to you.
Faith-integrated, somatic, attachment-focused psychotherapy with
Craig Thomas McAdams, MA, LPC, LPCC
There are parts of life that cannot be separated neatly into “psychological” and “spiritual.”
Grief can shake what you believe.
Marriage can expose wounds you didn’t know you carried.
Trauma can live in the body even when your mind knows you are safe.
Shame can make it difficult to receive love — from another person, from yourself, sometimes even from God.
And sometimes the deepest questions that bring you to therapy sound less like symptoms and more like:
Where is God in this?
Why do I keep doing something I know is hurting me?
Why can I believe I am loved and still have so much trouble feeling it?
What does forgiveness actually mean when someone really hurt me?
How do I trust again?
How do I grieve something I prayed would turn out differently?
Why does my body still feel afraid when my faith tells me I am safe?
Christian counseling with Craig offers a place where those questions do not have to be edited out of the therapeutic conversation.
Your faith can come with you.
So can your doubt.
So can your anger.
So can your grief.
So can the part of you that isn't quite sure what you believe anymore.
Christian Counseling That Makes Room for the Whole Person
This work is for adults and couples who want psychotherapy in which Christian faith can be welcomed as a meaningful part of healing rather than treated as irrelevant, awkward, or outside the scope of the conversation.
It is also for people who want something more clinically substantial than being told to pray harder, forgive faster, think more positively, or find the right Bible verse.
Prayer can be powerful.
Scripture can be powerful.
Faith can be an extraordinary source of attachment, meaning, resilience, community, surrender, and love.
And sometimes a nervous system still needs help.
Sometimes grief needs to be grieved.
Sometimes trauma needs to be processed.
Sometimes anger needs somewhere safe to exist before it can change.
Sometimes a marriage needs more than good intentions.
Sometimes shame does not loosen because we have been told we are forgiven. It begins to loosen when we experience what it is like to be fully seen and not abandoned.
In this work, psychological healing and spiritual life do not have to compete with one another.
We can make room for both.
You May Be Looking for Christian Counseling Because...
You may love God deeply and still feel anxious, depressed, overwhelmed, angry, lonely, or lost.
You may know Scripture well and still find yourself shutting down when conflict begins.
You may believe in forgiveness but have no idea what forgiveness means after betrayal, abuse, abandonment, or profound disappointment.
You may have spent years being the strong one — in your marriage, your family, your church, your work — and quietly wonder how much longer you can carry everything.
You may find yourself repeating behaviors you genuinely want to change.
You may feel ashamed that prayer has not made something disappear.
You may be grieving a person, a marriage, a dream, a pregnancy, a season of life, an identity, or even the version of God you once understood.
You may be wrestling with questions about purpose, calling, fatherhood, motherhood, marriage, intimacy, morality, mortality, or what your life is asking of you now.
Or perhaps nothing about your faith feels certain at the moment.
That can come into the room too.