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counseling for mind, body, and spirit

Faith-Based Counseling in Mooresville, NC

I see clients of every background and every faith, and that isn't changing based on what's on this page. Standard training says a therapist should stay neutral on questions of belief. I tried that for a while. Then I noticed how many people in my office wanted a therapist who didn't just tolerate their faith, but shared it. This page is for them.

If that's not you, no problem. Everything else on this site still applies to you. This page just isn't the one you need.

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Why I provide faith-based counseling:

I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian environment and deconstructed before it was trendy on the internet. I reconstructed and somehow found my way to the Catholic Church, and it's given me something the version I grew up with never did.

I’ll be the first to admit that my current faith home isn’t perfect, but through therapy (and lots of prayer and spiritual exploration) I’ve learned to have a healthier relationship with God and with spirituality in general.

That means I've sat on both sides of a lot of the questions clients bring me. Doubt isn't a foreign language to me, and neither is belief.

If you're wondering whether I actually practice: yes. I'm listed on catholictherapists.com, a directory that requires a professional reference, a clergy reference, and agreement with Church teaching before they'll list anyone. Not a marketing line. A vetting process I went through.

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Some of the men I see here are dealing with anxiety wrapped in faith language: a fear that a sin didn't count because they weren't sure they meant it, a habit around pornography that keeps circling back no matter how many times they've resolved to stop, a nagging sense that their faith is performance and God sees through it anyway. If that's you, I'm not handing you a moral verdict. It's a pattern, and it's treatable the same way any pattern is treatable, without asking you to set your faith aside to do the work.

Other people land here for reasons that have nothing to do with any of that. Grief. A marriage under strain. A decision that needs wisdom, not just strategy. That's welcome too. This page isn't reserved for one kind of struggle. It's for anyone who wants their faith in the room while we work.

One boundary worth stating plainly: this isn't spiritual direction, and it isn't confession. I'm not the person who determines whether something is a sin. What I can do is help you figure out what's actually driving a pattern, whether that's anxiety, grief, or a habit that doesn't match your values, without treating your faith as part of the problem.

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What becomes possible:

You sit through church without spending the whole Sunday running an inventory of everything you did wrong that week. A habit that's had the upper hand loses its grip because you're not white-knuckling it in secret anymore. You bring the actual, complicated version of your faith and your struggle into one room, instead of managing two separate versions of yourself.

I'm a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in North Carolina, in-network with BCBS NC and Aetna, and I see men and couples in Mooresville, Charlotte, and virtually across the state.

Faith is part of the conversation here if you want it to be. It's still your therapy, not a Bible study.

Schedule a free 15-minute consultation. We can talk through whether this is the right fit, faith included, before you commit to anything.

Schedule a free 15-minute phone consultation!