Speaking Engagements

For Therapists & Counselors

T1 – Christian Therapy is Relational Therapy

A thorough overview of the relational basis of Christian therapy and how it differs from modern, secular therapy. The Trinity is a relational God and humans are created in his image. A Christian worldview, therefore, sees relationship as the primary modality of therapy. This talk includes a discussion of the Relational Pyramid (Triune God, others, oneself, and one’s relational history), with special focus on family-of-origin wounds and the healing potential of relationship with God, a therapist, and Christian friends.

Duration: 3 hrs to 3 days

T2 – Carditive Therapy: Working with the Emotions in the Heart

Explores the emotions as vital and meaningful parts of human life and healing. This seminar reflects on their purpose in a fallen world and how working with emotions can lead to the formation of a beautiful soul.

Duration: 3 hrs to 2 days

T3 – Promoting Redemption in the Window of Tolerance

Introduces neurobiological patterns like fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. Helps therapists identify and calm these embodied responses and integrate redemptive resources that shift emotion schemes—offering rest and safety in Christ.

Duration: 1–3 hrs

T4 – Can Christians Have “Parts”?

A Christian engagement with Internal Family Systems (IFS). This talk examines whether and how the concept of “parts” aligns with Christian theology, exploring a redemptive and biblical understanding of self-complexity for therapeutic work.

Duration: 1–3 hrs

T5 – Redemptive Differentiation, Integration, and Elaboration on the Healing Journey

Presents three practical ways Christ’s redemption and union with Him can orient and shape the therapeutic journey.

Duration: 3–6 hrs

T6 – Working at the Highest Levels Possible, but the Lowest Levels Necessary

Explores the interrelation of human dimensions—embodied, psychosocial, ethical, and spiritual—and how a Christian worldview expands therapeutic resources beyond the biopsychosocial model.

Duration: 3–6 hrs

T7 – Christian Trauma-Based Narrative Therapy

A Christ-centered approach to story-work for individuals with unresolved trauma. Helps clients interpret their past in light of Christ’s story of redemption.

Duration: 2 hrs to 3 days

T8 – Training in the Distinctive Practices of Christ-Centered Therapy

A modular seminar that trains therapists in several distinctively Christian practices:

• T8A: Therapeutic Prayer – Praying from Head to Heart (1–6 hrs)
• T8B: Lectio Divina – Reading the Bible from Head to Heart (1–6 hrs)
• T8C: Using the Imagination in Christ-Centered Therapy (1–6 hrs)
• T8D: Chair-Work in Christ-Centered Therapy (1–6 hrs)
• T8E: How Christian Meditation Works (1–3 hrs)
  

T8F: Working with Religious Defenses and Spiritual Bypass (1–3 hrs)