by Georgia Shaffer, M.A. | Dec 4, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today
Coaching, Brain Health, and Post-traumatic Growth Most of us are familiar with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but far fewer understand post-traumatic growth (PTG)—the “positive change that occurs as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life...
by Karl Benzio, M.D. | Dec 3, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today
Uniting Faith and Neuroscience: Unleashing Your Patient’s Decision-making Superpower Introduction Decision-making is the hidden muscle behind not just psychological health and flourishing, but also spiritual sanctification and transformation. Clinicians who repeatedly...
by Lisa Miller, Ph.D. | Dec 3, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today
The Science of Spirituality and Our National Mental Health Crisis Faith needs no outward scientific proof. We know the truth in our hearts. Still, I have observed that personal insights and even mainstream institutional transformations emerge from holding up a...
by Ann Gregory, Ph.D. | Dec 3, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today
An Introduction to Brainspotting for Counselors The human brain and body have been designed with such intricate intention that it would be impossible to understand the fullness of being fearfully and wonderfully made, knit together in a mother’s womb (Psalm...
by E. John Kuhnley, M.D. | Dec 3, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today
The Developing Brain: Understanding Cognitive and Emotional Growth Across the Lifespan The Prenatal Prelude: God’s Handiwork in Motion When the psalmist wrote, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:13, NIV), he spoke a...
by Jennifer Wortham, Dr.Ph. | Dec 3, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today
Diagnosing and Treating Moral Injury in Christian Counseling Introduction Over the past decade, moral injury (MI) has increasingly emerged as a critical construct bridging psychology, theology, and pastoral care. Initially defined in military contexts, MI refers to...
by Daniel G. Amen, M.D. | Dec 2, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today
Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain: Understanding the Intersection Between Physical and Emotional Pain… and How to Heal Both The Hidden Intersection of Emotional and Physical Pain I met Sam just hours after he had tried to take his own life. Once a decorated police...
by Alan Weissenbacher | Dec 2, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today
The Willpower Trap Using Brain Plasticity to Change Thoughts and Behaviors At the residential rehabilitation facility where I formerly worked, we discovered a brain riddle. About 10-15% of those with an addiction would have a serious craving every 14 days, and only...
by Fernando Garzon, Psy.D. | Dec 2, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today, Research Digest
research digest Three New Insights on What the Brain is Teaching Us About Mental Health Studying the brain can increase our appreciation of God’s design and lead to holistic care that attends to body, soul, and spirit. In this Research Digest, we examine three studies...
by John Townsend, Ph.D. | Dec 2, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today, Leadership Psyc
leadership psyc Competence, Character, and Connection: Honoring Gregg Jantz Greetings to our AACC family! I look forward to engaging with you in this column, presenting concepts, and providing tips from the psychological world, with the hope of helping you in the...
