Counseling

BFL offers several different types of counseling: Psychotherapy, Pastoral Counseling, and Spiritual Direction. We work with individuals, couples, families, and groups, as well as offering workshops. Counseling is an important component of your overall health. You are important. Let us help you.

Psychotherapy

Life can get messy and it can be difficult. You may be going through such a time and feel alone, lost, and hopeless. These are normal experiences and feelings, albeit uncomfortable and unwanted. Whatever the circumstances and no matter your feelings, there is hope for you.

Psychotherapy works to empower you to bring about change - it may be your perspective, your response, or your behavior that you change, and with that change, your circumstance is changed as well. Sometimes you need help to figure out how to change the situation. Dawn Crouse, LMFT would love to work with you. She will listen to your story, honor your feelings, and offer a safe space for your healing.

Dawn (Idaho LMFT-7277) (Washington LF61529290) is trained in a number of clinical evidenced-based interventions and chooses the ones that best address your needs and comfort level, including EMDR and trauma focused treatments. Her personal values and world views are founded on her Christian faith, but she respects and works with all people regardless of differing viewpoints and values.

TELETHERAPY: If you reside in Idaho or Washington, we can provide counseling services to you via Teletherapy, no matter where you live within the state. If you have an internet connection, Teletherapy could be an answer to counseling that you’ve been looking for. You can try it with a free 15-minute consultation.

Worried that you cannot afford counseling, we have a generous income-based scale to help meet your needs. Please ask about our income-based prices because we believe your well-being is important.

We are currently not taking new clients.

Pastoral Counseling

For some, counseling with a strong religious or spiritual component is the perfect fit. When we find ourselves in darkness, alone, and perhaps confused and angry, we often turn to our spiritual faith for answers. Pastoral counseling provides a place where your life problems and your faith can intersect to bring about a resolution to the problem that is informed by the values of your spiritual faith.

BFL is a ministry that responds to our question as followers of Jesus Christ: “How then do we live?” We believe that we are to live by serving others, our neighbors, so that they may live more fully and with joy.

Pastoral counseling uses many of the same interventions as used in psychotherapy, and adds those of the spiritual disciplines such as Christian Scripture, meditation, as well as many others. Insurance covers the same presenting problems that are covered by psychotherapy. Some insurances are accepted and more are being added. Please call to see for more information. Please ask about our generous sliding scale fee because we believe that your well-being is important.

Spiritual Direction

Sometimes, we approach counseling solely with the goal of growing in our faith. Many people have a desire to strengthen their faith, to go deeper, and to move closer to God. They want to go further in their spiritual journey with someone who can guide them, someone to share this next stage of their pilgrimage. There doesn’t need to be a problem to meet with a counselor. If this is your intent, please schedule a free 15 minute consultation.

A Christian spiritual director is a companion to a seeker, helping you to focus upon cultivating an awareness of God’s voice and presence in all things, including the circumstances of your daily life. Your spiritual growth and desire to be more like your Lord is the goal of our time together. Interventions in Spiritual Direction are specifically those of listening and discernment. Many of the spiritual disciplines are also practiced and prescribed.

God awaits with arms wide open to embrace us.

BFL is a ministry that responds to our question as followers of Jesus Christ: “How then do we live?”

Healthcare insurance does not cover this service. Please call for a free consultation regarding your needs.