If a person is experiencing difficulty in their spirituality, they may benefit from counseling. Some therapists and counselors specialize in religious denominations and beliefs. Depending on what the person is experiencing, they may seek therapy from a person who more fully understands their religious or spiritual beliefs.
Available Treatment Options
Counseling interventions include offering a safe, validating space for people to question their beliefs, mindfulness interventions for self-discovery, or existential interventions for assisting folks in grappling with life’s “big questions.”
Therapists Who Specialize in Helping Those Who Struggle With Spirituality
Would you like to know yourself better and more deeply? To be able to move beyond painful and frustrating patterns in your feelings, relationships, and work? Sometimes it's clear why we feel and act how we do: ecstatic about a new romance, upset about a professional disappointment, awash with grief following the loss of a loved one. Other times feelings and behaviors may surprise you—a nagging...
As a Clinical Psychologist in practice for over 25 years, I specialize working with adults working through the barriers that keep them stuck in unproductive patterns that limit their life potential. Hardships, losses, and traumas often create beliefs that are self-limiting. These beliefs often stand in the way of the life you want to live. Counseling can be a powerful pathway toward discovering...
Emily Lockamy is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) specializing in grief and loss. Emily has worked as an individual therapist and support group facilitator in several settings, including a partial hospitalization program and two hospices. Emily takes a Person-Centered, integrative approach to counseling, drawing from principles of Grief Therapy, writing as a therapeutic...
Life is all about relationships. You might be dealing with unhealthy relationship patterns or problems in your relationships with your partner, your family, your friends, or yourself. Maybe you feel like your emotions are out of control and it’s starting to affect your relationships. You might be walking through life transitions and having difficulty adjusting. These problems can lead to emotio...
NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS. I specialize in working with children, teenagers, and young adults who are facing various issues with mental health, trauma, and life transitions. I also enjoy working with families who are trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together to reach their fullest potential as a family. I firmly believe in a holistic approach to therapy. This means that it is...
Many people recognize at some point that they need to do some "work" on themselves. Whether feeling depressed, anxious and/or overly reactive to people and events around us, our old coping mechanisms just don't seem to work as well. In fact, many of us hit a point where we just know we need to do something. This is the perfect time to consider therapy. We are ready for change at this point beca...
Ideally I believe all people want to find balance within themselves and the world. Whether it’s conflict, stress or mental health concerns. We all want to get through the day in the healthiest way possible. Life can be challenging at times and sometimes things become overwhelming or triggers come our way. I believe with tools, effective coping strategies and processing these challenges can be...
People come to see me when they feel stuck: having a hard time with using substances, managing life stress, finding direction or hemmed in by the past. They don’t know what to do or where to turn. The solutions don’t work anymore or have turned into problems of their own. One problem may have stopped only for several others to emerge. Trying feels difficult. Life is hard. I help you learn to so...
I offer compassionate and effective professional counseling that is goal oriented, solution focused, using well-established, evidence-supported practices to help you reach your goals on your journey. I have over 12 years of experience as a mental health and substance abuse therapist. I specialize in treating anxiety and panic attacks. I work with adults and adolescents (14 years+). My clients h...
Anxiety CAN be a starting point of something powerful and amazing in your life. You can learn something new: how to stop trying to escape or trying to outrun your anxiety, but rather to turn lovingly toward anxiety- to listen to its deeper messages. Learning how to embrace anxiety can open powerful doors within you and help you move forward more expansively. It may feel as though depression tur...
Feeling overwhelmed? Do not know exactly where to start? Does life seem unfair or not fun anymore? "The stresses of it all" seem overbearing, does it appear that you have it all together but on the inside, you feel that you may be falling apart. If you have become everything to everyone except yourself and may have lost who you really are or who you would like to become. Life's opportunities co...
Life can be hard. From marriage issues, to school problems, parenting concerns to personal addictions- we can get overwhelmed and stuck. DCS has therapists and counselors with experience to help you address problems behaviors and gain healthy strategies for positive living. If you aren’t sure how to handle your marriage, your child, or your own behaviors- DCS can help. We have several providers...
Everything in your life is spinning and out of control. You and your partner haven’t felt close in months. You leave texts from your friends unanswered for days. Your Netflix-binges leave you feeling hollow and unfulfilled. Life used to make sense for you. Then ‘it’ happened. Your spouse asked to separate. Your best friend who you took for granted got diagnosed with cancer. Your job is not how ...
We are becoming increasingly aware of the impact of minority stress and intergenerational trauma on daily living and relationships. That includes painful family experiences, friendships, intimate relationships, and career. Do you find it difficult to manage the stressors of everyday life on top of the stress of being a racial, gender, sexual, or religious minority or a disabled person? While al...
Have you ever felt, "Why is this happening to me, I don't know who I am anymore!" Constant worrying, low mood, relational challenges, and life transitions can wear you down. Simultaneously, navigating multiple cultural contexts can challenge your values and world views, often creating dissonance about who you are. Within the mindful space of therapy, I can help you examine the nature of your...
