Connect with licensed therapists who integrate faith and spirituality into evidence-based mental health care. Search by faith tradition, location, insurance, and telehealth availability.
Faith-based therapy integrates the client's spirituality into the therapeutic process — but it is still grounded in evidence-based clinical practice. All faith-based therapists listed on MFTFinder hold active licensure as mental health professionals (LMFT, LCSW, Licensed Psychologist, or LPC) and are bound by the same ethical and professional standards as all licensed therapists. They use clinically validated approaches alongside spiritual integration.
Faith-based counseling is different from pastoral care, chaplaincy, or spiritual direction, which are provided by clergy or trained lay ministers and may not involve clinical licensure or mental health treatment.
MFTFinder includes faith-based therapists representing many traditions: Christian (Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Orthodox), Jewish (Reform, Conservative, Orthodox), Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Latter-day Saint, and non-denominational spiritual integration. Each therapist profile specifies their faith background and approach so you can find the right fit.
Faith-based counseling is professional therapy that intentionally incorporates a client's spiritual beliefs, practices, and values into the therapeutic process. Rather than treating faith as incidental or irrelevant, a faith-based therapist recognizes that spirituality is often central to a person's identity, worldview, coping strategies, and sense of meaning — and honors that centrality in the work of healing.
For many people, their faith community and spiritual practices are primary sources of support, guidance, and resilience. Finding a therapist who understands and respects these foundations can make the difference between therapy that feels alien and therapy that feels fully integrated with who you are. Faith-based therapy does not impose religious content on clients — it takes its cue from the client's own spiritual framework and weaves that into evidence-based clinical work.
Faith-based therapy is available for individuals, couples, and families. It can address any clinical concern — anxiety, depression, grief, relationship conflict, trauma — while also engaging directly with spiritual questions about meaning, forgiveness, divine relationship, moral wrestling, or community belonging. For clients navigating religious trauma or a crisis of faith, a skilled faith-informed therapist can hold the full complexity of that experience with both clinical expertise and genuine understanding.
Faith-based MFTs combine evidence-based clinical methods with spiritually sensitive frameworks tailored to each client's tradition and beliefs.
Christian counseling integrates the client's Christian faith — including scripture, prayer, community, and theological frameworks — into evidence-based therapy. Christian counselors may draw on concepts of grace, forgiveness, redemption, and spiritual discipline alongside clinical interventions. This approach is not limited to religious topics — it provides a framework through which all of life's challenges can be held and addressed.
Developed within clinical psychology, spiritually integrated therapy honors the client's spiritual life as a genuine dimension of mental health. Therapists trained in this approach are skilled at facilitating conversations about spiritual struggles, divine relationship, existential questions, and the integration of faith and psychological insight — across a wide range of spiritual traditions. It is the most broadly applicable faith-aware approach.
Some licensed therapists have pastoral training or seminary education alongside their clinical licensure, allowing them to integrate theological depth and pastoral care skills into professional therapy. These therapists often work within specific traditions (Catholic, mainline Protestant, Jewish pastoral care) and bring genuine theological literacy to issues of guilt, forgiveness, meaning-making, vocation, and spiritual community.
Many therapists integrate mindfulness-based clinical approaches (such as MBSR, ACT, or DBT) with clients' existing spiritual practices — recognizing that prayer, meditation, contemplative practice, and present-moment awareness share much common ground. This approach is particularly helpful for clients whose faith includes contemplative traditions, and for clients who want to develop both clinical and spiritual resources for managing anxiety, depression, and life stress.
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LMFT, PhD · 21 Years Experience
Nashville, TN · In-Person & Telehealth
Dr. Henderson is a Christian counselor with over two decades of experience integrating evangelical Christian values with evidence-based therapy. She specializes in marriage counseling for Christian couples, grief and loss within a faith framework, and helping individuals reconcile personal struggles with their faith. She holds a ThM alongside her doctoral licensure and is known for her warmth and theological depth.
Insurance: Cigna, Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield (TN)
LMFT · 14 Years Experience
New York, NY · In-Person & Telehealth
Daniel works with Jewish individuals and couples across denominations (Reform, Conservative, Orthodox), integrating Jewish values, lifecycle framework, and communal identity into clinical therapy. He specializes in marriage counseling for Jewish couples navigating interfaith dynamics, as well as individuals processing Jewish identity, antisemitism's psychological impact, and generational trauma within the Jewish community.
Insurance: Oxford Health, UnitedHealthcare, Self-Pay
LMFT, PhD · 11 Years Experience
Dearborn, MI · In-Person & Telehealth
Dr. Al-Rashid provides culturally and Islamically sensitive therapy for Muslim individuals, couples, and families. She integrates Islamic values and perspectives into clinical work, honoring the client's faith while applying evidence-based interventions. She works extensively with Muslim couples navigating marriage and family challenges, and with Muslim women processing identity, gender expectations, and mental health stigma within their communities. Fluent in Arabic.
Insurance: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Self-Pay
LMFT · 9 Years Experience
Dallas, TX · In-Person & Telehealth
James provides Christian counseling with a particular focus on men's mental health, pastoral ministry families, and individuals processing religious trauma after harmful church experiences. Having grown up in a ministry family himself, he brings a nuanced understanding of the unique pressures faced by clergy and their spouses. He integrates EFT with a pastorally informed approach for couples in ministry.
Insurance: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Self-Pay
LMFT, EdD · 16 Years Experience
Houston, TX · In-Person & Telehealth
Dr. Krishnamurthy integrates Hindu and Buddhist spiritual frameworks — including karma, dharma, contemplative practice, and impermanence — into evidence-based clinical therapy. She works with South Asian and Southeast Asian individuals and families navigating the intersection of cultural expectations, spiritual identity, mental health stigma, and life transitions. She integrates mindfulness-based therapy with spiritually sensitive CBT and EFT.
Insurance: Aetna, United Healthcare, Self-Pay
LMFT · 8 Years Experience
Orange County, CA · In-Person & Telehealth
Rebecca works with Vietnamese American and broadly Asian American evangelical Christian families, navigating the intersection of faith, cultural expectations, intergenerational conflict, and mental health. She also works with individuals who are processing doubts, deconstruction, and transitions away from or within their faith community — helping them hold both their spiritual questions and their mental health with care and honesty.
Insurance: Anthem, Blue Shield of CA, Self-Pay
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