Faith in Therapy Workshop
October 23, 2026
3 CEUS
9:00 AM - 12:15 PM MST
12:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST
This interactive workshop equips mental health professionals with practical, ethical strategies for addressing religious and spiritual issues in therapy, recognizing both the strengths and challenges faith can bring to clients' lives. Participants will explore topics such as religious trauma, scrupulosity, spiritual bypassing, identity and family conflicts, and spiritually integrated coping to provide more culturally responsive and affirming care.
About the Workshop
Mental health professionals increasingly encounter clients whose religious or spiritual beliefs play a central role in identity, coping, relationships, meaning-making, and emotional distress. Yet many clinicians receive limited formal training on how to ethically and competently address faith-related concerns in therapy. This interactive 3-hour workshop explores common issues presented by clients of faith and offers practical strategies for integrating spiritual and religious considerations into clinical practice without imposing beliefs or compromising ethical standards.
Participants will examine how faith can function both as a source of resilience and as a contributor to distress, shame, trauma, conflict, or identity struggles. Topics include religious trauma, scrupulosity, spiritual bypassing, family and community pressures, sexuality and gender concerns within faith contexts, grief and suffering, clergy dynamics, and spiritually integrated coping. Through case examples, reflection, and discussion, clinicians will strengthen their cultural humility and develop tools for more responsive, affirming, and ethically grounded care with diverse religious and spiritual populations.
