spiritual counseling
Faith-based pastoral care
Spiritual counseling is guidance that addresses a person's relationship with meaning, purpose, faith, or the sacred.
Unlike conventional therapy, it draws on religious traditions or spiritual frameworks to help people navigate life's difficulties: She sought spiritual counseling after her husband's death.
Practitioners may be clergy, chaplains, or trained laypeople.
The approach varies widely—from prayer-based Christian counseling to secular mindfulness practices.
- pastoral careReligious emotional support
- evangelismPromoting beliefs to others
- prayerAddress to deity
- quiet reflectionSilent, thoughtful self-examination
- meditationFocused attention practice
Christianity · higher power · empathy · chaplaincy · active listening · listening ear · heart to heart · moral support · trust · Taoism · confidentiality · personal growth · theodicy · trauma recovery · guidance · soul care · existential philosophy · life purpose
- counselingpsychotherapy, family therapy, group therapy, counselor, couples therapy
- Campus Faithcampus ministry, chapel services, chaplaincy, faith community, prayer group
- faith healthcarefaith healing, hospital chaplain, chaplaincy, healing ministry, health ministry
- grief supportgrief counselor, bereavement support, grief therapy, bereavement leave, consolation
- prison programsGED classes, GED programs, vocational training, life skills, drug treatment
- spiritual carechaplaincy, soul care, healing prayer, healing prayers, bedside prayer
spiritual counselingpsychotherapy
Treatment through guided conversation
psychiatric treatment · clinical psychology · cognitive behavioral therapy · psychological counseling · psychoanalysis
spiritual counselingphysical therapy
Rehabilitative movement-based medical care
medical treatment · financial advising · career counseling · legal counsel · nutritional counseling