God is the only supreme, eternally self-aware being, who had no beginning and will have no end, who is non-contingent, transcendent, immutable, and of whom no greater being exists. His attributes include holiness, omniscience, omnisapience, omnipotence, omnipresence, logic, righteousness, justice, mercy, grace, etc. He is revealed to us in the person of Jesus as is described in the New Testament Scriptures. God is the Creator of all things, in Him all things hold together, He alone is God and there are no other gods before or beside Him, and God is God from all eternity. God is also a Trinity - Father, Son (Jesus), Holy Spirit. He is three persons in one. It is critical we get who God is correctly, because from this everything else is defined - either incorrectly, which can be destructive, or correctly, which is life-giving.

Humans are the one distinct creation of God because He made us in His image and to He made us to subdue the whole earth. We have infinite value because we are His creation and bear His image. Yet, we are sinners who have transgressed the holy laws of God - rebelling against Him to live for our own desires. As a result, our sin is deserving of death in order to satisfy God's holy justice. Thankfully, God sent His Son Jesus to take on our sin and suffer our penalty of death. Furthermore, Jesus lived the perfect life we cannot and He gave this righteousness to us, though we did not earn or deserve it. In so doing, we have been saved from sin and now live at peace with God, awaiting eternal rest with Him in Heaven. Our lives have been ransomed by God, paid with the price of His own blood. As such, we are eternally grateful and have attained the right from Jesus to become children of the Heavenly Father. Because of God, our worth can never be lost because we bear His image and our importance can never be self-attained because Jesus gave it to us. We have humility and gratitude to God, who deserves all the glory while we enjoy the good He has done.

Counseling can be helpful from both a psychological and theological perspective. It can help you overcome struggles such as anxiety, depression, addictions, stress/worry, relationship conflicts, and so much more. It can also help bring you closer and more in tune with God, with regard to your thinking, feeling, and actions. To explain this, think about a tuning fork that has a very specific sound. That fork is God and we each have our own fork (life) that sounds and works best when tuned to God. Counselors can listen to your life and help re-orient you so that what you think, how you feel, and what you do are more in line with God. In this way, counseling can examine your thoughts and thought patterns, what and how you feel - including your coping abilities, what your actions are, and even why you do all of this (your belief systems). From there, counseling can help you decide what is working and what's not, and make necessary changes to improve your life.

Most people think God and psychology oppose one another. We recognize that God created us and knows us better than we can know ourselves. It is advantageous for us to understand how we think and feel in order to change our behaviors. This helps us be able to love God with all our heart (feelings), soul (will; actions), and mind (thinking).

You might not know this, but finding the right balance and timing between God and psychology is very difficult! Most counselors are trained in and use their clinical skills but leave out or poorly intertwine the spiritual side. Other counselors are more pastoral but don't have adequate training in dealing with complex psychological issues. Life Discovery is unique in that its counselors work to bring together both worlds in a cohesive and compatible way that increases our effectiveness. We can recognize and competently address both layers of life simultaneously, maximizing your potential as a physical/relational and spiritual being.

It is well-known that the relationship between therapist and client is critical to the success of treatment. We also believe that God uses relationships to bring healing, comfort, and restoration to our brokenness and pain. Therefore, we believe the therapeutic relationship has tremendous power to be able to speak into our clients' lives with clarity, honesty, and compassion so that we can help transform lives.

There are many different ways of helping people; we call these psychological or therapeutic techniques. It's just a fancy way of describing the art of skillfully working with each person as an individual to effectively treat issues. These techniques are important tools that our counselors naturally possess and work to hone in clinical supervision.

We want to be honest: counseling is not easy! In order for real change to occur, we have to wrestle against ourselves, abandon old ways of doing things, and learn new habits. We realize this is a difficult process involving changes to our belief systems, thinking patterns, emotional processing, and ultimately our words and actions. We also understand that without all this work, lasting change is unlikely if not impossible. We strive to gently bring visibility to areas that may be blindspots, and provide guidance through the process of addressing them effectively.