As a licensed therapist, it would be unethical for me to project my values or beliefs onto clients. It’s not my position to tell anyone what to believe or even how to live their life, regardless of their faith or lifestyle. While the focus of my practice is working with the Christian community, I also work with people of other faiths, as well as those who don’t hold to any faith.
This statement of faith is offered for those who wish to know more about my own faith. My hope is for it to enable you to better decide if you feel comfortable working with me, rather than compelling anyone to believe the same as I do.
Statement of Faith
- God is the triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- The Lord Jesus Christ is God’s Son. Being one with the Father, all things are created by Him and for Him.
- Through the action of the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary, He became man.
- He was without sin and of His free will, and by His sacrificial death upon the Cross, He brought about salvation for this fallen world.
- He is the only mediator between God and man, and by accepting His salvation through faith, man is justified from his sins and receives forgiveness and eternal life.
- Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
- Jesus Christ will return to deliver just judgement and to bring all things to completion.
- The Holy Spirit is God in unity with the Father and the Son.
- Through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ comes to dwell within those who accept Him through faith.
- Through the presence of the Holy Spirit, a person becomes a new creature and is being transformed into the likeness of Jesus Christ.
- Jesus Christ adds those who believe in Him to his Body. This is His church on earth, of which He is the Head.
- The Bible is, in its entirety, the revelation of God for mankind, inspired by the Holy Spirit.
– Joel Walton