Spiritually Informed Psychotherapy
Affirming Therapy for Folks Who Approach Mental Health & Life from a
Non-Denominational Spiritual Lens
Therapy where you feel seen, heard, and understood—because your journey matters.
Therapy for adults who feel stuck, feel disconnected, or are searching for deeper meaning in life.
We help you navigate uncertainty, spirituality, deep wounds, questioning of beliefs, existential shifts, and holistic healing. We also cover topics such as gender, sex, identity, and more.
We use general therapy modalities such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), internal family systems (IFS), and more.
While most sessions are 45-60 minutes, each session is fully personalized to you and your concerns. This is your space.
We accept most major insurances.
We offer virtual sessions throughout Illinois.
To learn more, check out our FAQ page.
Life’s challenges can leave you feeling disconnected, stuck, or searching for deeper meaning. Spiritually informed psychotherapy provides a space to explore your beliefs, process past wounds, and challenge limiting self-perceptions. Our spiritually informed therapist helps you cultivate resilience, self-trust, and a stronger connection to yourself and the world around you. Whether you’re navigating existential questions, seeking emotional balance, or striving for personal growth, we support you in finding clarity, healing, and a renewed sense of purpose.
Explore Your Past
Reflect on how outside influences have shaped your beliefs and emotions—honoring both ancestral wisdom and lived experience.
Become Spiritually Grounded
Develop resilient strategies that align with your values, rituals, and sense of meaning.
Reclaim Your Life
Create a new story that centers your strengths, spiritual wisdom, and ongoing personal evolution.
Learn to Cope
Develop meaningful, culturally attuned practices to support mental and emotional well-being.
Deepen Connection
Feel and process emotions in a safe space—integrating spiritual tools like prayer, bodywork, or divination to support healing.
What is Spiritually Informed Psychotherapy?
Spiritually Informed Psychotherapy is a therapeutic approach that allows clients to explore emotional and mental health concerns alongside their spiritual or existential beliefs. It creates space to talk about meaning, purpose, values, faith, doubt, or spiritual practices as part of the healing process, without imposing any specific belief system.
How does Spiritually Informed Psychotherapy help?
Spiritually Informed Psychotherapy helps people connect their mental health with their sense of meaning and personal values. It can support clients navigating life transitions, grief, identity questions, or spiritual conflict by integrating emotional insight with the beliefs or practices that ground them.
Can Spiritually Informed Psychotherapy be used with psychiatric medication?
Yes. Spiritually Informed Psychotherapy can be used alongside psychiatric medication when appropriate. Therapy focuses on emotional processing, meaning-making, and coping skills, while medication may help regulate symptoms such as depression, anxiety, or mood instability. Decisions about medication are made with a licensed medical provider.
Why Freelife BH for Therapy?
Choosing a therapist is about more than credentials. It is about finding a space where you feel understood, respected, and able to be honest. At Freelife, therapy is collaborative, direct, and grounded in real-life application. We focus on helping you build insight, improve communication, regulate stress, and create meaningful change that carries outside the therapy room.
Our clinicians are experienced, thoughtful, and committed to ongoing learning. We balance warmth with accountability, offering support while also helping you challenge patterns that no longer serve you. Whether you are navigating anxiety, depression, relationship stress, identity questions, or life transitions, Freelife provides structured, informed care that meets you where you are and helps you move forward with clarity.
The Therapy Process—Explained
Intake
We start by getting to know you, your goals, and what’s bringing you to therapy in a way that feels welcoming and low-pressure.
Assessment
Together, we explore patterns, history, and current challenges to better understand what support will be most helpful for you.
Treatment
Your therapist works with you using evidence-based, affirming approaches tailored to your needs, identity, and pace.
Integration
You practice applying what you’re learning in real life, building insight, resilience, and trust in yourself over time.
Follow-Up
We check in, adjust as needed, and make sure your care continues to support your growth beyond each session.
You deserve support that sees all of you.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Spiritually Informed Psychotherapy works by integrating emotional and psychological support with a client’s personal beliefs, values, or sense of meaning. In sessions, clients can explore life challenges, identity questions, grief, or stress while also discussing spiritual practices, ethical frameworks, or existential concerns that shape how they understand their experiences.
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Spiritually Informed Psychotherapy may be a good fit if your spiritual beliefs, questions about meaning, or personal values play an important role in how you process life events. It can be especially helpful for people navigating faith transitions, spiritual conflict, or seeking a deeper sense of purpose alongside traditional mental health support.
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Yes. Spiritually Informed Psychotherapy uses the same evidence-based therapeutic methods as general therapy, with the added option of discussing spirituality or meaning if it is relevant to the client. The effectiveness comes from aligning therapy with the client’s worldview and sources of personal grounding.
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Yes. You do not need to follow a specific religion to benefit from Spiritually Informed Psychotherapy. Many people use it to explore broader questions about meaning, values, purpose, or connection, regardless of whether they identify as religious, spiritual, both, or neither.
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Captari, Laura E., et al. “Integrating Clients’ Religion and Spirituality within Psychotherapy: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis.” Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol. 74, no. 11, 2018, pp. 1938–1951.
Currier, Joseph M., et al. “Practice-Based Evidence for Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies: Examining Trajectories of Psychological and Spiritual Distress.” Journal of Counseling Psychology, vol. 71, no. 4, 2024, pp. 291–303.
Bouwhuis-van Keulen, E., et al. “The Evaluation of Religion and Spirituality-Based Therapy Compared to Regular Treatments: A Meta-Analysis.” Psychotherapy Research, 2023.
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