Finding a faith-sensitive counsellor

Thank you for writing this. I thought I was the only one. Thank you for writing this. I thought I was the only one.

As a social worker I'll gently add: a good faith-sensitive counsellor should be able to hold both truths — that your tradition matters to you, and that your safety and wellbeing matter to your tradition at its best. Anyone who makes you choose between the two isn't the right fit.

Glad someone raised this. Practical note: some faith communities offer pastoral counselling that can be genuinely helpful alongside — not instead of — a registered clinician, and a few clinicians in the Lower Mainland explicitly list faith-integrated practice. Both can coexist with the legal process just fine.

finding one who didn't flinch at either the divorce or the faith part took me three tries. worth every awkward intake call.

Slightly outside my lane as a lawyer, but I regularly refer clients to counsellors who respect faith rather than treating it as the problem — they exist in most BC communities. If it helps to hear it: the guilt clients carry into my office rarely survives contact with good support.