Executives & business owners
For pressure, burnout, decisions, relationship spillover, private patterns, or questions of purpose that do not fit neatly into a business conversation.
Faith · Professional life · Focused work
Christian Counseling for Professionals
When faith matters in the middle of an ordinary, demanding life.
Private-pay counseling in St. Louis for executives, business owners, attorneys, physicians, pastors, ministry leaders, and other professionals who want Christian faith understood and integrated with focused psychological work.
$275 per 50-minute sessionIndividual counseling · Private pay · Ballwin or Missouri telehealth
The intersection matters
When the people you love get what is left of you.
You may be coming for burnout, conflict avoidance, anger, unwanted sexual behavior, a relationship pattern, a difficult decision, grief, or a major transition. You can be patient with a difficult colleague and come home with very little patience for your own family. Then you feel guilty because loving them well matters to you.
“I need more discipline” might be your explanation, but I would want to understand the whole day before settling on that answer. What did you agree to when you needed to say no? Have you eaten or had a quiet moment? When your spouse expresses disappointment, do you hear a request for connection or another verdict that you are not doing enough?
Who this often serves
Professional life changes the context—not the humanity of the problem.
The work is built around the concern you actually want help with, while understanding the professional and faith context surrounding it.
Attorneys & physicians
For demanding professional environments where privacy, precision, and a counselor who can engage faith without oversimplifying the issue may matter.
Pastors & ministry leaders
For concerns where ministry, marriage, personal faith, reputation, church dynamics, or private struggle overlap in ways that are difficult to separate.
Other professionals
For motivated adults who want thoughtful, focused counseling that can include Christian faith without turning every conversation into a spiritual lesson.
Faith-aware, not faith-only
Counseling and theological training in the same room.
Brian Bachman, MA, LPC, is a Christian and Missouri Licensed Professional Counselor with more than ten years of clinical experience. He earned graduate degrees in counseling and theological studies from Covenant Theological Seminary and is EMDR trained.
Your training may have taught you how to solve other people’s problems without giving you much room to recognize your own needs. We can look at what happens in a difficult moment, how you learned to respond, and what would make a different response possible.
Taking Scripture seriously includes studying the people God made.
Read why psychological understanding belongs in Christian counseling.
What integration can look like
What do you believe God expects of you?
A physician, mother, or ministry leader can spend the day caring for people and struggle to believe that needing care herself is acceptable.
Does faith make room for limits, enjoyment, and receiving love, or has it become another place where you must earn your worth?
Scripture and prayer can help you examine what you believe, what you want, and how you are treating people—not avoid those questions.
You decide how directly faith is included in our conversations.
Common concerns
Start with the issue that brought you here.
BurnoutWork pressure has started costing too much elsewhere
Focused counseling for depletion, loss of margin, diminished motivation, and the personal cost of sustaining the current pace.
StressThe pressure follows you homeFor chronic mental load, difficulty switching off, and stress spilling into relationships or ordinary life.
ConflictHard conversations are easier to postpone than resolveFor avoidance, over-accommodation, resentment, delayed conversations, and relational indecision.
Sexual behaviorPrivate patterns are out of step with who you want to beFor pornography use, compulsive sexual behavior, secrecy, relapse, and relational consequences.
Personal patternsA concern you want to explore you are ready to work onFor recurring responses, family-of-origin patterns, decisions, transitions, or other focused personal concerns.
Faith itselfWhen the spiritual concern is the counseling goalFor spiritual dryness, doubt, anger at God, church hurt, spiritual abuse, deconstruction, or spiritual formation.
Related pathways
Explore related counseling.
You can also read about counseling for professionals or Christian counseling for concerns beyond work.
St. Louis & Missouri
Private counseling with regional access.
Meet in person at the Ballwin office or by telehealth anywhere in Missouri. Standard sessions are $275 for 50 minutes. Limited on-site appointments at an appropriately private office may also be available for $375.
See the St. Louis private-pay counseling overview for rates, access, and practice details.
Next step
Bring the concern you actually want help with.
Use the 20-minute consultation to describe the issue, ask how faith could be integrated, and decide whether this counseling approach matches what you want.
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