The Ethical Integration of
CBT & Christian Therapy
A rigorous, evidence-based continuing education course for licensed mental health professionals who want to meet clients' faith with clinical competence — not guesswork.
Your clients bring their faith into the room. Are you prepared?
Research consistently shows that religious and spiritual concerns are among the most influential factors in how clients understand their suffering, access hope, and engage with treatment. The APA's own multicultural guidelines identify religion and spirituality as dimensions of diversity requiring clinical competence.
Yet most graduate programs leave this gap unfilled. Many practitioners freeze when clients reference scripture, prayer, or God — unsure whether engaging is clinically appropriate, ethically permissible, or simply within their scope. Others wade in without the framework to do it safely.
This course closes that gap. Built on peer-reviewed research and major professional ethics codes, it gives you a practical, defensible framework for integrating CBT and Christian therapy — with your clients' wellbeing and your licensure firmly protected.
Evidence Based Integration
Grounded in research, not opinion. This isn't a faith-based opinion course dressed in clinical language. Every technique, ethical principle, and clinical recommendation is drawn from peer-reviewed literature — including a landmark randomized controlled trial showing that religiously adapted CBT outperformed standard CBT for religious clients with depression. You'll leave with citations you can stand behind.
Ethical Clarity
Know exactly where your scope ends — and where it begins. The most common mistake in faith-integrated practice isn't bad intentions. It's role confusion. This course gives you a clear, APA- and NBCC-aligned framework for what belongs in the therapy room and what belongs in the pastor's office — so you can engage your clients' faith with confidence and stay firmly within your license.
Practical and Immediately Applicable
Leave with techniques you can use this week. Every core CBT intervention — thought records, behavioral activation, exposure therapy, problem-solving, guided imagery — gets a step-by-step Christian-integrated adaptation. Real composite case illustrations show you exactly how each technique looks in session, so you're not translating theory into practice on your own time.
Ready to earn your 3.0 CEU hours?
Join licensed counselors, therapists, and social workers building the competence to meet clients' faith with clinical skill, ethical clarity, and genuine humility.
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Elizabeth Edwards, LMFT
Elizabeth is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor and AAMFT Approved Supervisor in North Carolina. With clinical backgrounds in intensive in-home family therapy, outpatient care, and a specialized focus in perinatal mood disorders, she now serves as Director of Operations at Foundations Family Therapy — where she provides supervision and administrative leadership. Elizabeth brings both clinical depth and supervisory expertise to the ethical integration of evidence-based practice and faith-sensitive care. She has no financial relationships or conflicts of interest to disclose.
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Built for licensed mental health professionals
No prior training in Christian counseling or spiritually integrated therapy is required. A foundational familiarity with CBT and basic professional ethics is assumed.
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