Many Christians hesitate at the door of counselling for the same reason: the fear of sitting across from someone who will treat your faith as a symptom. You want to talk about your marriage, your grief, your anxiety — but prayer is part of how you meet those things, Scripture shapes how you understand them, and you don't want to spend your sessions defending that.
If you are looking for Christian counselling online, here is my honest offer. I am a counsellor in private practice, registered as a social worker with the SACSSP in South Africa, and I work comfortably and respectfully with clients whose faith is central to their lives. In our sessions your faith is welcome in the room — as a resource, a lens, and a language — and it will never be dismissed, analysed away, or pushed on you.
What I mean — and don't mean — by Christian counselling
Let me be straightforward, because this field is full of vague claims. I am not a pastor, and I don't offer formal biblical or pastoral counselling; if you want structured teaching from Scripture, your church is the right place for that. What I offer is professional counselling — person-centred, emotionally focused, trauma-informed — practised by someone who understands that for a believing client, faith is not a footnote. It shapes how you grieve, how you forgive, how you fight with your spouse, and what hope means to you.
So we can speak naturally about what you believe God is doing in a season of suffering. If prayer belongs in how you process something, that is honoured, not tolerated. And where faith itself has become tangled — with guilt, with a harsh picture of God, with a church hurt — there is room to look at that gently too.
Christian marriage counselling
Couples often want a counsellor who understands that their marriage sits inside a covenant, not just a contract — that "we don't believe in giving up" is a conviction, not a negotiating position. I respect that, and I also tell couples the truth: conviction alone doesn't repair a marriage; learning to reach each other again does. My couples work is emotionally focused — we slow down the arguments to find the hurt and the longing underneath them — and your shared faith can be one of the strongest resources in that repair.
I also see couples where one partner believes and the other doesn't, which brings its own tensions and its own tendernesses. You can read more about how I work with couples on my online couples counselling page.
Grief, suffering, and the questions in between
Grief is where faith and pain meet most rawly. Believers are sometimes told, in effect, to grieve less — "she's with the Lord now" — and then feel ashamed that the sorrow is still enormous. Faith and grief are not opponents; the shortest verse in the Bible is that Jesus wept. In my grief counselling, there is room for both the hope and the howl, and for the honest questions that loss puts to what you believe.
For clients of all faiths and none
A word of balance, because it matters to me: I see clients of all faiths and none, and every one of them gets the same respect. I don't bring faith into the room unless it is yours and you bring it first. This page exists simply so that Christian clients know what to expect: a counsellor who will not roll her eyes at what you hold sacred.
Sessions are 60 minutes, online by video call — I see clients across South Africa, the UK, Ireland and Europe — or in person in Fairmount, Johannesburg.