Anger, doubt & distance
You still value faith, but disappointment, doubt, unanswered questions, or anger at God have created distance you do not know how to resolve.
Faith & Spiritual Formation Counseling
Go Higher.
For Christians who want to know God more deeply and see their faith change how they live. We can also work through doubt, shame, anger at God, spiritual disconnection, or the effects of past church experiences.
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The goal
An honest, integrated, and life-giving faith.
You may attend church, know your Bible, and still feel that your faith is mostly a record of what you did right or wrong. You want patience, integrity, and love to become more than intentions. You may also want to recover curiosity, joy, and a sense that you are known and loved by God.
I would want to understand what you mean by growth. Are you trying to avoid disappointing God, or learning to know him? Is there room to pray honestly about frustration, enjoy the world he made, and ask for help throughout an ordinary day? Habits matter, but the relationship underneath them matters too.
Shame & performance
Faith has become tied to pressure, perfectionism, fear, or the sense that you must look spiritually certain rather than be honest.
Deconstruction & rebuilding
You want productive deconstruction—examining beliefs and assumptions carefully without treating either blind certainty or abandoning faith as the predetermined outcome.
Church hurt & spiritual abuse
A leader, institution, or community misused spiritual authority, and the impact still affects trust, belonging, conscience, or your relationship with God.
Christian conviction and honest questions
Faith can be examined without being managed for you.
Brian is a Christian with graduate theological training. If you want explicitly Christian counseling, Scripture, prayer, theology, lament, spiritual formation, doubt, anger at God, and questions of meaning can be part of the work.
My approach is openly Christian: I want to help you know God and live with greater honesty, love, and maturity. That does not mean deciding your personal choices for you or treating difficult questions as disobedience. We can examine the convictions you hold, the assumptions you inherited, and what your faith looks like in the life you actually have.
Next step
Bring the question you are actually wrestling with.
Use the 20-minute consultation to describe the issue you want to work on and compare goals before beginning.
Request ConsultBring more than the parts you want to fix.
What catches your interest? What do you enjoy about your spouse or children? When do you notice beauty, order, humor, or generosity? Spiritual growth is not only catching yourself doing something wrong. It also includes becoming more able to receive, enjoy, and respond to what is good.
Explore knowing what you believe but struggling to live it or what difficult feelings do—and do not—say about your faith.
St. Louis private-pay counseling
One Ballwin office. Regional access.
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