Be Wise, Get Help
Seeking professional help is frowned upon in our culture. People see it as a sign of weakness. In our culture, we don’t want anyone to know we are seeing a psychologist, and are embarrassed when people find out. Let’s get over this.
Seeing a psychologist is wise because they are people who are trained to deal with anxiety, shame, regrets, fears, abuse, and anger, to name a few. Maybe what is even more valuable is, it is their job to listen. It is a beautiful relationship. You get to open up and dump out all your concerns without reservation. You do not have to be concerned with overburdening your friends. It is the psychologist’s job to deal with your baggage, and whatever you say is confidential and will never leave the office!
Get a psychologist who is Christian. That was my requirement. As it worked out, I met with a little elderly lady, all of five feet tall, but she was filled with the Holy Spirit. It was a total Blessing. The importance of having a Christian psychologist is that psychotherapy is incomplete when God is not at the center of the healing. How can it be? If you ignore the core of your being who is God – the creator and sustainer of all life – how can you say your treatment is all-encompassing? It isn’t. It is illogical to think you can get the help you need when you don’t consider the most important part of your framework, who is Christ who lives in you.
Without God, the only thing that will be permanent in your life is the healing process, because the treatment plan is a superficial remedy to a problem that is not appropriately addressed, so it will never be complete. The end-goal is to be permanently healed, and that can only happen when God is at the center of the healing process.
Bible Verses
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
Proverbs 11:14 (ESV)
The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.
Romans 8:11 (NLT)
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20 (ESV)