Members | AACC

Webinars

Media

News

CCT Magazine

My Profile

CounselTalk^™Webinars

View Webinar Archives

Healing the Attachment Wound with God After Spiritual Trauma: Applying Attachment Theory, Somatic Experiencing, and EMDR

April 16, 2026 | 6:00 PM ET

Presented By:

Colleen Ramser, M.A., LPC

Continue

Faith-based Reproductive Trauma Care: Clinical Assessment and Treatment

May 12, 2026 | 6:00 PM ET

Presented By:

Caitlin Overfelt, Ph.D., LPC

Continue

Beautifully Known: How the Grand Story of the Bible Integrates with Attachment Theory and Emotion Focused Couples Therapy to Deepen Emotional Intimacy

June 23, 2026 | 6:00 PM ET

Presented By:

Mark Vander Ley, Ph.D. 
Brian Fidler, Ph.D.
Casey Hall, Ph.D.

Continue

Podcasts & Media

Christian Counseling Connection Newsletter

Christian Counseling Today Magazine

Volume 28 • Issue Number 4

Download ePublication

Christian Counseling Today Magazine is available in Print & Digital ePublication formats.

VIEW THE ARCHIVES

Features

Cognitive Health for Senior Clients: Evidence-based Lifestyle and Non-pharmacological Interventions

Cognitive Health for Senior Clients: Evidence-based Lifestyle and Non-pharmacological Interventions According to the Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s Dementia (AD) accounts for 60-80% of all dementias.1, 2 Late-onset AD accounts for 95% of all AD and is associated with the ApoE gene, which codes for a protein that transports fatty vitamins and cholesterol...

Coaching, Brain Health, and Post-traumatic Growth

Coaching, Brain Health, and Post-traumatic GrowthMost 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 crises.”1 While PTSD centers on the pain and negative consequences of trauma, PTG focuses on the...

Uniting Faith and Neuroscience: Unleashing Your Patient’s Decision-making Superpower

Uniting Faith and Neuroscience: Unleashing Your Patient’s Decision-making SuperpowerIntroduction Decision-making is the hidden muscle behind not just psychological health and flourishing, but also spiritual sanctification and transformation. Clinicians who repeatedly treat the symptoms of depression, anxiety, addiction, relational breakdown, or any other...

The Science of Spirituality and Our National Mental Health Crisis

The Science of Spirituality and Our National Mental Health CrisisFaith 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 scientific mirror to the impact of spirituality on our human journey. As a religious person, I also...

An Introduction to Brainspotting for Counselors

An Introduction to Brainspotting for CounselorsThe 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 139:13-14). The brain develops from the bottom up, starting with the brainstem, where the survival...

The Developing Brain: Understanding Cognitive and Emotional Growth Across the Lifespan

The Developing Brain:Understanding Cognitive and Emotional Growth Across the LifespanThe 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 poetic truth that modern neuroscience now illuminates in breathtaking detail. Even before birth,...

Diagnosing and Treating Moral Injury in Christian Counseling

Diagnosing and Treating Moral Injury in Christian CounselingIntroduction 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 the psychological, relational, and spiritual distress resulting from events that violate deeply...

Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain: Understanding the Intersection Between Physical and Emotional Pain… and How to Heal Both

Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain: Understanding the Intersection Between Physical and Emotional Pain… and How to Heal BothThe 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 officer, he was now trapped in unrelenting back pain after two high-speed accidents and six...

The Willpower Trap: Using Brain Plasticity to Change Thoughts and Behaviors

The Willpower Trap Using Brain Plasticity to Change Thoughts and BehaviorsAt 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 every 14 days. It was like clockwork. “Three, two, one, and there goes Earl.” While this puzzled...

Three New Insights on What the Brain is Teaching Us About Mental Health

research digestStudying 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 that pose important questions: Can overinvolvement in the digital world produce “brain rot” (a term that might sound exaggerated but perhaps is not, according to some...