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When I sought out counseling, I came with several complex problems, including CSA (childhood sexual abuse), anxiety, chronic pain, and food addiction. The counsel Lucy gave me from the Scriptures had an appropriate level of comfort in the areas where I was suffering and had suffered abuse as a child, and in the areas where I needed to be called to repentance, she used God’s word to speak the truth in love. I appreciated her commitment to using God’s word along with other supportive, biblically-based books and resources. Using those tools, she gave me homework assignments that helped me to learn how to appropriately apply Scripture to the areas where I had disoriented thinking and ungodly pursuits. Long-term benefits I have gained from our time together: I have gained victory over the sinful thought patterns that caused most of my anxiety and food idolatry, and because of that, I have been able to better manage chronic pain and other health problems. In addition to this, learning how to apply my new identity in Christ and replace wrong thoughts about myself as a victim of CSA helped restore me to a right and deeper worship of and relationship with God, and I also began to develop a right view of myself, which has also improved my relationship with others.

—M.G., 48-year-old counselor