Buffalo Valley Christian Counseling Center

God has a process for taking us from a broken, hurting, dysfunctional state (depression or anxiety, for example) and restoring us so that we can function again. Therapy has a clearly defined place in this spiritual growth process. If you have an issue severe enough to make you to go to the trouble and expense of looking for professional help, it means there’s a specific part of you that’s stuck in the growth process, injured, lacking, or immature. Therapy is very specific—it reaches deep inside to these very places where you’re not growing. For example, you may be depressed. Depression is often about loss: something prevented you from grieving, so you stayed busy all your life and became a rescuer and workaholic, until suddenly, at the age of thirty-four, you collapsed, ate a million doughnuts, and discovered “I can’t control myself!” The therapeutic process would require you to become very specific: What is it about loss that’s so painful that you cannot enter the “house of mourning” that Ecclesiastes 7:4 talks about? This is where therapy fits in.