Spiritual Healing Through Faith-Integrated, Attachment-Based Therapy in Sandy Springs, Georgia
Online Therapy Throughout Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, South Carolina & Vermont
Rebuilding how you relate to God—without fear, shame, or performance.
Faith can be both a source of strength and a source of struggle. You may find yourself in a season where what once felt secure now feels distant — where the language, rhythms, or communities that used to bring comfort no longer fit the same way. You might be questioning your beliefs, grieving spiritual disconnection, or trying to reconcile the God you were taught to trust with the pain you’ve lived through.
These experiences can feel disorienting, but they’re not signs of failure — they’re invitations to healing. Through faith-integrated, attachment-based therapy, we explore how your spiritual experiences, family system, and attachment history intertwine. Together, we’ll begin restoring emotional safety, spiritual connection, and a sense of self that feels whole again.
You Might Be Here Because…
You feel like you’re always trying to “do more” for God, but never feel closer
You struggle to pray, worship, or study scripture when you feel shame or emotional pain
You’ve been harmed by church culture, purity culture, or religious control
You fear disappointing God—even over small things
You swing between spiritual intimacy and total avoidance depending on how you feel
You’re healing from spiritual confusion, deconstruction, or leaving a high-control faith tradition
When Faith Feels Tender: Healing the Intersection of Spirit & Self
There are seasons when faith begins to feel fragile. It’s not because you’ve lost belief, but because what you’ve been carrying no longer fits the shape of your healing. Maybe you’ve been questioning what you were taught, struggling to feel God’s presence, or noticing that prayer now stirs anxiety instead of peace.
When this happens, many people assume something is wrong with their faith. In reality, it’s often your nervous system asking for safety in the places your spirit has learned to fear.
Through faith-integrated, attachment-based therapy, we slow down enough to listen to both: the voice of your faith and the voice of your body. You’ll begin to notice how past experiences of conditional love, spiritual pressure, or shame have shaped your relationship with God and yourself.
Healing at this intersection isn’t about replacing theology; it’s about recovering trust. It’s learning that God’s nearness isn’t something you earn, it’s something you learn to feel again when fear loosens its grip.
Therapy helps you make sense of this tender place, where your spiritual experiences and emotional patterns meet. That’s where attachment comes in.
Where Faith and Attachment Meet
Attachment theory helps us understand how we form emotional bonds—and how past experiences shape our relationships, including with God.
Anxious attachment may show up as spiritual people-pleasing: striving to earn God’s love and blaming yourself when life gets hard
Dismissive avoidant attachment may lead you to resist prayer or closeness with God, protecting yourself from “not measuring up”
Fearful avoidant attachment can create a push-pull dynamic: seeking God when you’re “doing well” but retreating in shame when you’re not
Secure attachment means trusting that God is a safe place—even when you’re not at your best
Therapy rooted in spiritual safety and cultural clarity
This work isn’t about teaching you more scripture. It’s about helping you:
Feel safe enough to bring your whole self to God
Understand how your emotional wiring shaped your faith journey
Rebuild your spiritual life with compassion, clarity, and presence
I often work with clients from the BIPOC community who’ve been told that therapy is a sign of weak faith—or that healing should only come through prayer. We shift that narrative. God gifts therapists like He does surgeons: to help you heal, not replace Him. It’s not faithless to get help. It’s faith-full to be human in the healing.
My Approach to Faith-Integrated Therapy
Faith-integrated therapy invites your whole self into the healing process — your emotions, your body, and your beliefs. My approach combines attachment theory, somatic awareness, and Christian spiritual formation to help you experience God, yourself, and others in safer, more grounded ways.
In our work together, we look at how early relationships and spiritual environments shaped what you believe about love, worth, and belonging. We explore how your body carries those stories — tightening, withdrawing, or striving when you long to feel close to God.
Using Brainspotting and other mind–body techniques, we gently release the emotional residue of fear and shame stored in your nervous system, allowing space for authentic spiritual connection and inner calm. For some, this means learning to experience God’s presence again without anxiety; for others, it means redefining faith through freedom and gentleness rather than pressure or performance.
My goal is to help you cultivate secure spirituality — one where your relationship with God and yourself is rooted in safety, honesty, and peace.
What Spiritual Healing Looks Like in Therapy
This work meets you wherever your faith story finds you — not to redefine your beliefs, but to help you feel safe, seen, and whole inside them again.
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Those in Spiritual Transition or Deconstruction
You may be re-examining what you believe — or how you believe it. Whether you’re untangling years of doctrine, leaving a denomination, or simply shifting your spiritual lens, therapy offers a nonjudgmental space to process your questions and rediscover your connection to God and yourself.
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Survivors of Church Hurt, Religious Trauma, or Cults/High-Control Groups
When your faith story includes fear, manipulation, or spiritual abuse, even love can feel unsafe. You may still believe but struggle to trust spiritual spaces. Therapy provides room to name what happened, grieve what was lost, and rebuild a relationship with God that feels honest and free.
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Those Longing to Feel God’s Love as Safe, Not Conditional
You’ve been taught that closeness with God must be earned, and that love comes with strings. In our work together, we explore where that belief took root and gently rewrite it. You don’t have to perform for love that was never meant to be earned.
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Those Wanting to Integrate Healing and Faith
You’re not abandoning your faith—you’re trying to embody it in a way that feels more secure, more whole. This work supports you in bridging your therapeutic growth with your relationship with God—so you don’t feel torn between healing and belief.
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Anyone Tired of Performing Spiritually
If your walk with God has felt like striving, hiding, or never measuring up, you’re not alone. This work is for those ready to experience spiritual intimacy without spiritual pressure; To return to God not just as Lord, but as a secure base.
Begin Your Walk Toward Wholeness
Healing your faith story doesn’t mean abandoning it — it means learning to feel safe within it again. Whether you’re deconstructing, redefining, or simply longing to reconnect with God in a more grounded way, there’s space here for your questions, your grief, and your growth.
Through faith-integrated, attachment-based therapy, we’ll work together to restore emotional safety, rebuild spiritual trust, and create space for connection that feels both sacred and secure.
You don’t have to choose between healing and belief. Both can coexist. Wholeness was always part of the plan.
If you’re ready to begin, I’d be honored to walk with you. Schedule your consultation today.
“What’s coming up for you?” isn’t just a therapy question. It’s a spiritual one too.
You might be wondering…
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No. While this space welcomes spiritually minded clients, I work with a full spectrum of beliefs. What matters most is your emotional safety.
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You are safe here. You won’t be shamed for questioning theology or grieving lost community. I hold your spiritual grief as valid.
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Not at all. Therapy helps create the internal safety to hear God more clearly, not less. Think of it as clearing space to listen—not replacing what’s sacred.
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You’re not alone. That shame often comes from insecure attachment, not truth. Together we work toward a more secure spiritual connection, where conviction is gentle and shame doesn’t lead.