I start with a new therapist on Monday...
This one's not a Christian, but I've been thinking about it and think I'm glad.
Yes I like praying to start but how beneficial is it really to have a Christian? I can still pray before I go in.
My doctor has been saying that a proper psychologist should be nonjudgmental, not push their views and show respect to me and what I've experienced. Their opinion shouldn't come into it.
When it comes to Christian psychologists I find they're often the more Pentecostal type... which there are some parts that I find... inaccurate.
I will likely hit some nerves here, but this is what I best align with
- The gift of tongues isn't something that God gives in the current era
- Neither is the gift of prophesy
- You don't hear God's voice in your head when you pray
- Therefore the words you give others aren't from God
- The Bible is the written word of God and cannot have further inspirations added to it.
- You can't feel as if something is holding you back or something needs releasing.
I could go on.
What I know is that this stuff has occurred in my therapy sessions with Christian psychologists.
Maybe to get through all the layers of trauma within Christian institutions, I actually need a psychologist who doesn't throw various degrees of their own spirituality at me.
Maybe I just need a non-Christian.
