Christian Therapists in Alamo, CA
I'm Patty Shirley - East Bay Christian Counseling.
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), Certified Addictions Treatment Counselor, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, BCIA Board Certified Neurofeedback provider, certified in addiction, trauma, anger mgmt, dementia-related behaviors, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT and Somatic Experiencing.
I'm Patty Shirley - East Bay Christian Counseling.
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), Certified Addictions Treatment Counselor, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, BCIA Board Certified Neurofeedback provider, certified in addiction, trauma, anger mgmt, dementia-related behaviors, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT and Somatic Experiencing.
Starting therapy is a meaningful and often vulnerable step. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed by current stress, navigating a difficult season, or wanting to better understand yourself, you don’t have to go through it alone. My hope is to create a space where you feel supported, understood, and empowered as we work toward your goals together. I provide a warm, collaborative, and personalized approach that helps clients better understand themselves, build resilience, develop effective coping skills, and create meaningful, lasting change.
Please read more about me and my approach on my website, or schedule a consultation today.
Starting therapy is a meaningful and often vulnerable step. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed by current stress, navigating a difficult season, or wanting to better understand yourself, you don’t have to go through it alone. My hope is to create a space where you feel supported, understood, and empowered as we work toward your goals together. I provide a warm, collaborative, and personalized approach that helps clients better understand themselves, build resilience, develop effective coping skills, and create meaningful, lasting change.
Please read more about me and my approach on my website, or schedule a consultation today.
I specialize in psychotherapeutic support for individuals, couples, and families using CBT, Client-Centered, DBT, Solution Focused/Brief therapy, and Christian Counseling.
I provide a conducive and safe environment for the clients to be themselves and express themselves in a nonjudgmental and accepting environment. I listen to clients patiently, empathically, and reflectively.
I specialize in psychotherapeutic support for individuals, couples, and families using CBT, Client-Centered, DBT, Solution Focused/Brief therapy, and Christian Counseling.
I provide a conducive and safe environment for the clients to be themselves and express themselves in a nonjudgmental and accepting environment. I listen to clients patiently, empathically, and reflectively.
My name is Sora Yoon, LMFT and art therapist. My approach is person-centered, and I utilized modalities of treatment that will match your specific needs whether that is a behavioral approach (DBT, RO DBT, MBCBT, ACT) or psychodynamic and or trauma-focused (CPP). I also incorporate creativity into my approach with art therapy, sandtray, and other expressive arts. My communication style is warm, inviting, providing unconditional positive regard, strength-based, empathetic, and direct when a crisis or seriousness of situation needs to be communicated.
My name is Sora Yoon, LMFT and art therapist. My approach is person-centered, and I utilized modalities of treatment that will match your specific needs whether that is a behavioral approach (DBT, RO DBT, MBCBT, ACT) or psychodynamic and or trauma-focused (CPP). I also incorporate creativity into my approach with art therapy, sandtray, and other expressive arts. My communication style is warm, inviting, providing unconditional positive regard, strength-based, empathetic, and direct when a crisis or seriousness of situation needs to be communicated.
I specialize in helping young adults and other adults find relief from stress, generalized anxiety, panic attacks, and social anxiety that may have arisen from life transitions, identity and relationship concerns, difficult family relationships, harsh self-criticism, or adverse childhood events such as bullying, abuse, or other trauma. I also have specialized training and experience in integrating a client’s spirituality into their care. I would work collaboratively with you to tailor interventions to match your concerns, lived experiences, and preferences.
I specialize in helping young adults and other adults find relief from stress, generalized anxiety, panic attacks, and social anxiety that may have arisen from life transitions, identity and relationship concerns, difficult family relationships, harsh self-criticism, or adverse childhood events such as bullying, abuse, or other trauma. I also have specialized training and experience in integrating a client’s spirituality into their care. I would work collaboratively with you to tailor interventions to match your concerns, lived experiences, and preferences.
You’re capable and accomplished—but internally, it can feel like overthinking or never being at ease. I help individuals strengthen self-worth, set boundaries, and create healthier relationships. Our work is collaborative, supportive, and focused on lasting change. If this resonates, I’d love to connect. I support individuals who seem to have it together but feel anxious, unseen, or unsure of their worth. We’ll work to break unhelpful patterns, build self-trust, and create more fulfilling relationships so you can feel more secure and confident.
You’re capable and accomplished—but internally, it can feel like overthinking or never being at ease. I help individuals strengthen self-worth, set boundaries, and create healthier relationships. Our work is collaborative, supportive, and focused on lasting change. If this resonates, I’d love to connect. I support individuals who seem to have it together but feel anxious, unseen, or unsure of their worth. We’ll work to break unhelpful patterns, build self-trust, and create more fulfilling relationships so you can feel more secure and confident.
I am a licensed therapist in California with 20+ years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, and motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. I believe in treating everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. I tailor each treatment plan to meet your specific needs. I am a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist.
I am a licensed therapist in California with 20+ years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, and motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. I believe in treating everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. I tailor each treatment plan to meet your specific needs. I am a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist.
I am a Licensed Therapist passionate about helping individuals navigate life’s challenges with greater clarity, balance, and resilience. I work with adults navigating anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, life transitions, and trauma. My goal is to provide a supportive and collaborative space where you can feel heard, understood, and empowered to create meaningful change.
I am a Licensed Therapist passionate about helping individuals navigate life’s challenges with greater clarity, balance, and resilience. I work with adults navigating anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, life transitions, and trauma. My goal is to provide a supportive and collaborative space where you can feel heard, understood, and empowered to create meaningful change.
As a mom, artist, and biracial individual, I feel connected to many people of all walks of life. Having worked with families and people of all shades and stories, I have witnessed the complexities that life holds. My life's work is listening, learning, expressing curiosity, and collaborating care where it feels meaningful and effective to someone's healing journey.
As a mom, artist, and biracial individual, I feel connected to many people of all walks of life. Having worked with families and people of all shades and stories, I have witnessed the complexities that life holds. My life's work is listening, learning, expressing curiosity, and collaborating care where it feels meaningful and effective to someone's healing journey.
Hi! I'm Kat Cruz. I've been a licensed marriage and family therapist since 2017. I believe that change is possible and that we all deserve the chance to live with joy, purpose, and meaning. I feel inspired to help others connect with their own authentic power and believe that everything we need to heal is already within us. Sometimes we just need some help to access that.
Hi! I'm Kat Cruz. I've been a licensed marriage and family therapist since 2017. I believe that change is possible and that we all deserve the chance to live with joy, purpose, and meaning. I feel inspired to help others connect with their own authentic power and believe that everything we need to heal is already within us. Sometimes we just need some help to access that.
Erica Thiessen
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC, LCMHCS, NCC
4 Endorsed
Online Only
Waitlist for new clients
Erica Thiessen is the Clinical Director at LifeTutors, a clinically informed coaching program. Our coaching teams offer in person support for young adults striving towards personalized goals, whole Self wellness, developing individual agency, and navigating developmental territory. Additionally, Erica maintains a clinical practice, working with individuals and families in transition, personal struggle, and the discovery new paths forward. Given the opportunity to untangle the experiences we’ve been through, she is determinedly curious and leans into humor, out-of-the-box thinking, and faith in a client’s inner resources.
Erica Thiessen is the Clinical Director at LifeTutors, a clinically informed coaching program. Our coaching teams offer in person support for young adults striving towards personalized goals, whole Self wellness, developing individual agency, and navigating developmental territory. Additionally, Erica maintains a clinical practice, working with individuals and families in transition, personal struggle, and the discovery new paths forward. Given the opportunity to untangle the experiences we’ve been through, she is determinedly curious and leans into humor, out-of-the-box thinking, and faith in a client’s inner resources.
WELCOME BEAUTIFUL! If you haven't already, please take this present moment to tune in to your innate wisdom, to see if I might be the inner-guide you've been looking for. As a modern-day healer and spiritual guide, I compassionately and mindfully guide you to feel, experience, hear, trust and embody your wisest inner guidance, around some of the most important decisions and relationships in you life. Together, we will welcome very part of your light and dark, the spoken and unspoken, the named and unnamed, the tamed and untamed--and discover pathways to connect with the intelligence, wisdom & medicine, they all have to offer.
WELCOME BEAUTIFUL! If you haven't already, please take this present moment to tune in to your innate wisdom, to see if I might be the inner-guide you've been looking for. As a modern-day healer and spiritual guide, I compassionately and mindfully guide you to feel, experience, hear, trust and embody your wisest inner guidance, around some of the most important decisions and relationships in you life. Together, we will welcome very part of your light and dark, the spoken and unspoken, the named and unnamed, the tamed and untamed--and discover pathways to connect with the intelligence, wisdom & medicine, they all have to offer.
Community Presbyterian Counseling Center provides a safe and confidential setting to enable people to heal emotionally, relationally, and spiritually. Counseling services are provided to individuals, couples, families, and groups. Our professional staff are here to assist you with: handling life's transitions and loss; managing stress; coping with depression and anxiety; strengthening marriage and family relationships; and discovering spiritual resources for healing. We are available for both in-person and video sessions.
Community Presbyterian Counseling Center provides a safe and confidential setting to enable people to heal emotionally, relationally, and spiritually. Counseling services are provided to individuals, couples, families, and groups. Our professional staff are here to assist you with: handling life's transitions and loss; managing stress; coping with depression and anxiety; strengthening marriage and family relationships; and discovering spiritual resources for healing. We are available for both in-person and video sessions.
He also works with those who identify as Christian.
Trained at Yale University. Your choice of a Doctor, a Clinical Psychologist, is one of the most important decisions in your life. You are entrusting the Psychologist with your hopes, dreams and solutions. With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Steward is committed to you. Problems can be solved. With a brief assessment involving a thorough interview (and testing, if needed) we can determine the key issues and explore the solutions best for you. It is important to have a Psychologist who is well-trained and who cares about you.
He also works with those who identify as Christian.
Trained at Yale University. Your choice of a Doctor, a Clinical Psychologist, is one of the most important decisions in your life. You are entrusting the Psychologist with your hopes, dreams and solutions. With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Steward is committed to you. Problems can be solved. With a brief assessment involving a thorough interview (and testing, if needed) we can determine the key issues and explore the solutions best for you. It is important to have a Psychologist who is well-trained and who cares about you.
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My ideal clients are individuals and couples seeking healing, growth, and meaningful change. Many come to therapy after experiencing trauma, relationship challenges, life transitions, emotional distress, or feeling disconnected from themselves or others. I also work with professionals, first responders, caregivers, and those experiencing stress, burnout, or compassion fatigue. Clients often seek support when they feel overwhelmed, stuck, or ready for deeper self-understanding. Together, we create a supportive space to explore challenges, build on strengths, develop healthier patterns.
My ideal clients are individuals and couples seeking healing, growth, and meaningful change. Many come to therapy after experiencing trauma, relationship challenges, life transitions, emotional distress, or feeling disconnected from themselves or others. I also work with professionals, first responders, caregivers, and those experiencing stress, burnout, or compassion fatigue. Clients often seek support when they feel overwhelmed, stuck, or ready for deeper self-understanding. Together, we create a supportive space to explore challenges, build on strengths, develop healthier patterns.
I specialize in addiction and recovery, childhood sexual trauma, and Christian counseling.
I specialize in trauma, specifically childhood sexual abuse, and its effects on adulthood functioning: I am an addiction and recovery specialist. I have been clean and sober for 35 years. I am a licensed, ordained minister. I am EMDR certified
I specialize in addiction and recovery, childhood sexual trauma, and Christian counseling.
I specialize in trauma, specifically childhood sexual abuse, and its effects on adulthood functioning: I am an addiction and recovery specialist. I have been clean and sober for 35 years. I am a licensed, ordained minister. I am EMDR certified
Are you struggling with pornography or sexual compulsivity? Is secrecy, broken trust or loss of intimacy hurting your relationship? Or maybe you’re not in crisis, but you know your marriage could be stronger, more connected, more alive? You’re not alone–we have been through these issues personally and know what it’s like. I’m a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), and Hunter is a Certified Mentor Coach in long-term recovery. Together, we help men break free (porn, sexting, affairs, prostitution, etc) and we help couples rebuild trust and real intimacy.
Are you struggling with pornography or sexual compulsivity? Is secrecy, broken trust or loss of intimacy hurting your relationship? Or maybe you’re not in crisis, but you know your marriage could be stronger, more connected, more alive? You’re not alone–we have been through these issues personally and know what it’s like. I’m a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), and Hunter is a Certified Mentor Coach in long-term recovery. Together, we help men break free (porn, sexting, affairs, prostitution, etc) and we help couples rebuild trust and real intimacy.
Not feeling like yourself? Enough is enough already? Are there issues in relationships that are not working for you anymore? Do you need help navigating life? Sometimes we can handle things on our own and I am here to teach you all the tools to do that, and other times we need another person's nervous system to help us to co-regulate. I'm guessing you want to feel alive and motivated, creative and connected (to yourself and others). Life can be incredibly hard sometimes and the world isn't set up to give us all the time and space to recover. Therapy is where we slow down together, feel feelings and learn new ways of handling life.
Not feeling like yourself? Enough is enough already? Are there issues in relationships that are not working for you anymore? Do you need help navigating life? Sometimes we can handle things on our own and I am here to teach you all the tools to do that, and other times we need another person's nervous system to help us to co-regulate. I'm guessing you want to feel alive and motivated, creative and connected (to yourself and others). Life can be incredibly hard sometimes and the world isn't set up to give us all the time and space to recover. Therapy is where we slow down together, feel feelings and learn new ways of handling life.
Congratulations on taking this FIRST step. Life’s challenges can leave you feeling defeated, exhausted, anxious and depressed. All of these feelings can take a toll on our daily lives, sense of self and relationships. However with the right therapeutic support those feelings can decrease or become easier and more manageable. I also have a special interest in supporting individuals and couples who have breast cancer or have experienced breast cancer and its lasting impacts. I’m an out-of-network provider.
Congratulations on taking this FIRST step. Life’s challenges can leave you feeling defeated, exhausted, anxious and depressed. All of these feelings can take a toll on our daily lives, sense of self and relationships. However with the right therapeutic support those feelings can decrease or become easier and more manageable. I also have a special interest in supporting individuals and couples who have breast cancer or have experienced breast cancer and its lasting impacts. I’m an out-of-network provider.
You've spent so much of your life being strong for everyone else that you've forgotten what it feels like to care for yourself. I work with individuals and veterans who are seeking practical solutions, greater self-awareness, and lasting personal growth. Whether you're navigating stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, life transitions, or simply feeling stuck - I believe that every person has the capacity to grow, heal, and create meaningful change when they feel understood, supported, and empowered.
You've spent so much of your life being strong for everyone else that you've forgotten what it feels like to care for yourself. I work with individuals and veterans who are seeking practical solutions, greater self-awareness, and lasting personal growth. Whether you're navigating stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, life transitions, or simply feeling stuck - I believe that every person has the capacity to grow, heal, and create meaningful change when they feel understood, supported, and empowered.
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FAQ - About Christian Counselling
What can a Christian therapist help with?
Many Christian counselors incorporate faith-based principles into psychotherapy and draw guidance from biblical writings. This approach may be particularly helpful if you are experiencing concerns related to faith, prolonged grief, substance use, or questions about life’s purpose. Christian therapists may also offer marital, premarital, or family counseling. These can be helpful options if your concerns are more relational in nature, such as communication challenges in a marriage, conflict within a family, or adjustment following a major family transition, such as divorce or a move.
How does Christian faith shape the therapy experience?
Christian faith can shape the therapy experience by giving you a familiar framework for discussing meaning, purpose, forgiveness, relationships, and hope in sessions. For clients who want faith included in therapy, a Christian therapist may draw on Christian values, prayer, or spiritual reflection alongside other therapeutic approaches. In addition, while training, qualifications, and experience are always important, research has shown that a strong alliance between you and your therapist is a major contributor to therapeutic success. An alliance is likely to be strengthened with a therapist who not only is responsive to questions and concerns, but also shares a client’s faith and values. Nevertheless, an ethical Christian therapist should be clear about how they incorporate faith and should respect the level of spiritual discussion that feels right for you.
Does Christian therapy work across different denominations?
Christian therapy can be helpful for people from various different Christian traditions, including Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, and Anglican backgrounds. Many Christian therapists are able to support clients across denominations by focusing on shared Christian values, such as faith, prayer, forgiveness, and hope. That said, denomination can matter for some clients. A person’s identified denomination may shape how they understand relationships and life roles. If these differences are important to you, it may be helpful to ask a therapist whether they have experience working with clients from your specific denomination or faith tradition.
Can a Christian therapist help with marriage and couples counseling?
Christian faith-based therapy can take many different forms, including marriage counseling and couples counseling. Some therapists may also offer Christian pre-marital counseling. In these settings, Christian therapists may work with couples on concerns such as communication, conflict, trust, intimacy, parenting, and major life transitions. A Christian therapist may also help couples explore how shared Christian beliefs shape the relationship. They may encourage you and your partner to practice skills learned in therapy in your everyday lives, including both faith-based practices and non-faith-based tools, such as prayer or communication skills.
Can a Christian therapist help with sensitive issues like sex, trauma, or addiction?
Licensed therapists with adequate training should be equipped to help with a number of sensitive issues, including sex, trauma, and addiction. For clients who want faith included in therapy, a Christian therapist may help explore how your spiritual beliefs relate to your challenges, healing, and recovery. A competent and ethical Christian therapist should not judge, shame, or impose a particular belief when discussing these topics, and if you feel judged, it may be time to seek another therapist.
How can a Christian therapist support family therapy?
Christian family therapy can help families address conflict, communication challenges, parenting concerns, grief, or adjustment following a major life transition. A Christian therapist may support family members in understanding one another’s perspectives, improving communication, setting healthier boundaries, and rebuilding trust. For families who want faith included in therapy, a Christian therapist may also help explore how family values related to Christianity can support healing.
How might I inquire about a therapist's experience working with Christian clients?
If religion is important to you in therapy, it can be helpful to ask a prospective therapist whether they have experience working with Christian clients. In initial conversations with potential therapists, you might ask how they incorporate Christian values into therapy or how they approach certain topics that matter to you. As sessions begin, it can be helpful to notice how the therapist responds to your concerns. A strong therapeutic alliance does not necessarily require a therapist to share your religious background, but they should respond to your concerns with respect and cultural humility. If you feel dismissed, misunderstood, or find yourself having to explain your beliefs constantly, it may be worth considering another therapist.
Who is included in Psychology Today's directory of Christian therapists?
The directory of Christian therapists includes professionals who have shared their background in their profiles and have identified as Christian. It shows therapists who indicate that they have extensive experience working with Christian clients, regardless of their own background or religious affiliation. However, not all therapists choose to disclose this information, and they may not appear in search results for this reason.