Christian Counseling therapists in Altamonte Springs, Florida FL

Your spiritual beliefs now and the ones you were raised with, impact who you are today. I take your beliefs into account as needed because it is part of your thoughts, decisions, values, and much more. You can decide how much to bring into therapy.  

In my counseling graduate program at Denver Seminary, I gained a specialty in providing Christian spiritual integration in therapy for clients requesting Christian counseling. I can help you explore your relationship with God, spiritual strengths, and spiritual challenges in your life that are impacting your mental health. I'm here to help you express and work through any spiritual abuse and/or spiritual confusion you may be facing.  

At LEAPS we approach Christian Counseling by first learning about client’s spiritual history, faith preferences, and commitments. We adopt a systematic protocol to gather relevant information about their Christian faith. A clinical spiritual assessment is conducted prior to the implementation of any prescribe treatment approach, thereby achieving consistently favorable solution-driven outcomes. For example, we use the FICA tool: faith, importance, community, and address protocol: • Do you consider yourself a person of faith and how would you describe your faith tradition? • What importance does your faith have in your life? • Are you a member of a local church or faith community? • How would you like me to address these spiritual matters? Ultimately, our goal is to use Christian principles integrated with proven therapeutic approaches to help resolve your mental health challenges.  

Josef Kevin Hardwick, MDIV, MS, LMFT, LICSW provides Christian Counseling.  

Being a Christian means that the 'worldly' ways of counseling may not be helpful to you or congruent with your spiritual pursuits.  

My belief is that as Christians, our security in God and our relationship with Him are at the foundation of sound mental and emotional health. As we take our eyes off our symptoms, and focus on our relationship with God, we allow him to do the needed work in us.