Practical Faith Academy - Episode 18 - Kathy White, Attending to Faith and Mental Health

The Practical Faith Academy Podcast from Cecil Taylor Ministries presents guests who have important things to say about putting your faith into practice. Cecil interviews each guest to understand their life stories and their ideas for living a seven-day practical faith.

Kathy White is a Niceville, Florida licensed mental health counselor and marriage and family therapist. She is a Christian and brings her faith background into her therapy sessions. As a result, she sees and expresses the ways that both faith and good mental health can work together to help people.

Highlights of the podcast:  

2:08  How “seven-day practical faith” can be interpreted as loving actions

4:23  People should be open to counseling and the healing and change it can provide.

5:58  How Kathy came to faith

7:56  How being a Christian changes her approach to counseling

10:33  Impacts of narcissism on others

13:16  How God inspired her to write a novel centered on therapy experiences

14:38  The supreme importance of a therapist diagnosing people who aren’t in the room but are affecting the patient

16:37  Suggested approach for Christians seeking therapy

19:03  The hardest part about putting faith into practice is confronting fear.

21:45  Her best tip for putting faith into practice: Structure.

23:47  Information about her first book, “The Therapist,” and the marriage advice book she’s writing now.

Kathy White is a Christian therapist whose practice in Niceville, Florida is called Carpenter House and can be found at CarpenterHouse.net. She has written a novel-like book based on her experiences, “The Therapist: Short Stories about Parenting, Narcissists, Combat, Abuse and Marriage,” written under the name Kathlyn C. White. You can find more information about the book at TheTherapist.biz.

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