Church leaders are often the first person contacted when a member of the congregation is suffering. This is especially stressful when the suffering includes mental health challenges. Churches are often distrustful of psychologists and counselors (often rightfully so!) and getting skilled help that is faithful to the Scripture and the Gospel can be a harrowing challenge all its own.

How can you care well for those in your church while maintaining your own mental and emotional well-being? Church Partnerships with Restored Life Counseling are designed specifically to serve churches, church leaders, and Christians seeking help for mental health challenges.

How We Help

Workshops, Pulpit Supply, Retreats

Choose from a variety of workshop topics to help your staff and your congregation bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ, comfort those in affliction, be content, and give thanks in all circumstances. We also offer pulpit supply or retreat speakers on each of our topics.

Referral Network

When you need specialized support for issues beyond your skills or capacity, we are building a network of vetted Christian counselors who are committed to the authority of Scripture, the Deity of Christ, the Trinitarian nature of God, and Biblical marriage.

Leader Care

Leadership is often isolating and burdensome. Burnout is a real and often unacknowledged risk. When leaders fall, it discredits the gospel and the work of Christ in a community. Caring for leaders is one of our most important services because it helps prevent burnout, isolation, and the moral failures that all too often result.

Workshop, Sermon, or Retreat Topic Options

Referral Network

Coming Soon!

To build our referral network, we’re seeking Christian Counselors to be interviewed on our podcast, Christian Counseling in the Valley of the Sun. As each episode is published, we’ll build a directory entry for that counselor. Until then, please book a consultation to let us know what sort of help you’re looking for, and we’ll make the best recommendation we can.

If you’re a Christian Counselor and would like to be part of the referral network, click the button below to apply to be on the podcast.

Program Leadership

Dan Stephens, MA, LPC, CSAT

I have been a Christian my whole life, completed my counselor education at Western Seminary in Portland, OR along with the Bible and Theology classes for an MDiv.

Unfortunately, due to the tragic loss of my brother to suicide, and the sinful and addictive ways that I coped with my grief shortly after I completed my counselor education, I did not complete my MDiv. My own suffering and recovery led me to seek specialty training to help others make more Gospel centered choices than my brother and I did.

Only by God’s grace and with the support of my local church, I have overcome depression, intense grief, and pornography addiction. My vocation now is to pay forward the help that I myself recieved, and to prevent others from making the same choice that my brother made.

My family and I moved to Phoenix in 2022 so that my wife and I could attend the Missional Training Center for a Graduate Studies Certificate in Missional Theology, which we expect to finish in 2027.

The tension between the church and the mental health community is warranted. Humanist counselors and undiscerning Christian counselors have led many sheep astray and discredited the Gospel. Ill equipped churches and spiritually abusive approaches to pastoral counseling have also discredited the Gospel.

In my healing and in the lives of many others, only a positive and collaborative relationship between the church and counseling led to results that glorified God and spread the Gospel. Restored Life Counseling is here to be a bridge between the Church and Mental Health Care to the glory of God and for the good of the community.

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