The Integrative Mindset: Pathways to Practicing as a Christian Clinician
By Dr. Brad Strawn and Dr. Earl Bland
Date: Saturday, August 30, 2025
Time: 9:00–11:00 a.m. PT / 12:00–2:00 p.m. ET
Format: Live via Zoom (Recording included)
Maintaining a vibrant and engaged curiosity to the spiritual and religious dimensions of clinical work speaks to the heart of our task as integrative clinicians. Of particular interest to Christian clinicians is developing a therapeutic posture that is attuned to the emergent nature of faith within the relational dynamics of clinical work. Seeking to understand what God is up to in our clinical work is a deeply hermeneutical process involving our faith tradition, ethics, and self-development. Using psychoanalytic and theological principles, this presentation engages participants in a discussion of how to maintain a resilient posture of expectancy and wonder regarding the unique and unpredictable ways God may manifest a Divine presence in therapy and counseling relationships.
Learning Objectives
In this seminar participants will:
1. Understand and describe the emergent nature of psychotherapy and faith integration in the clinical context.
2. Identify and discuss the impact of one’s religious faith tradition, ethics, & self-development on the processes of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
3. Analyze and evaluate their attunement to spiritual & religious material in their clinical work and consider specific practices that foster resilient mindset.
Cost
CE Credit Information
- CE credits not available for the recording.
NB: The Center for Christianity and Psychoanalysis does not exist to promote a single viewpoint or advance one ideological stance. Our intent is to create a space where people from varied theological traditions, clinical orientations, and cultural backgrounds can come together to think, reflect, and learn from one another.
We invite a range of speakers whose scholarship, clinical practice, and theological reflection enrich our community. Their presence with us is not an endorsement of every viewpoint they hold. Rather, our aim is to host thoughtful dialogue across differences—trusting that engagement with differing perspectives deepens our search for understanding and truth.
We are committed to fostering dialogue, not dogma, and to exposing our community to multiple perspectives across both psychoanalytic and Christian theological thought as we continue the ongoing work of integration.
