Check out our full description of the work we do on our What is Pastoral Counseling? page.

All of our clinicians are licensed with the state of Kentucky as Kentucky Licensed Pastoral Counselors. For more information on that license, please visit the official website.

All of our clinicians are private pay (out of pocket) only and are not on any insurance panels. We have had success with clients who pay with flexible spending accounts through their employee health benefits.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapeutic technique designed to reduce distress associated with traumatic memories in order to help process them and achieve emotional integration. EMDR operates on the knowledge that the mind can in fact heal from painful trauma and with an empathetically-attuned clinician, clients can find emotional peace. For more information, here is a brief video on EMDR.

Psychodynamic theory operates on the knowledge that much of our emotional and cognitive life is unknown to us. In our childhood and adolescence, many of us experienced real disappointment, pain, and grief but did not have a caregiver to help us to make sense of what we were feeling. To get by, we developed powerful defenses denying our own experiences and clinging to false versions of ourselves. Our defenses may have helped us at one point but now in adulthood they are failing us, often resulting in painful anxiety and debilitating depression. Psychodynamic clinicians seek not just to help clients cope with their symptoms but to understand their emotional root and to help clients to gain deeper self-insight and self-understanding. For more information, here is a brief video on psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Biblical counseling is a particular form of Christian instruction. Often operating within churches, biblical counselors help congregants to identify particular spiritual issues and respond with particular Christian teaching. While biblical counselors can be trained at the graduate level, most receive certification from parachurch organizations.

Pastoral counseling is in-depth psychotherapy where a clinician uses their training to create an environment to help explore the depths of a client’s mind. Pastoral counselors believe that there is much under the surface of our everyday lives to be discovered. We believe our clients have come to us precisely because they have tried many skills and techniques or have received a lot of instruction and found these to still not quite address their problems.

Yes. Our clients come from all different backgrounds and religious/faith traditions, including not having one. Our job is to understand you. Because the therapeutic relationship itself is the factor most likely to lead to long-lasting change, as long as you feel free to be you, we can do good work.