The Critical Journey | A Summer Book Club
May 4, 2026
My name is Christie. I’m a story + soul companion offering Christ-centered counseling and biblical soul care. Over the years, I’ve sat with many thoughtful, faithful people who are tired, carrying grief, navigating difficult relationships, or holding wounds that have gone unnamed for a long time. Sitting with them has shaped the way I understand both suffering and grace. I’ve learned how much our histories matter, how profoundly our bodies and relationships are shaped by what we’ve lived through, and how patient Christ is with us as He meets us within the story.
My approach to Christ-centered counseling and soul care is trauma-informed, clinically informed, and narrative-focused—but it is also deeply relational. I care about earning trust, listening well, becoming curious about what is happening beneath the surface, and resisting the urge to rush toward answers or resolution.
Together, we may attend to the stories and relationships that have shaped you, the ways your body has learned to respond to stress or harm, patterns of connection and protection, grief and longing, and your experience of God. I welcome questions and curiosity, wonder and weariness. I believe Scripture gives us language not only for hope and restoration, but also for confusion, sorrow, waiting, and lament.
My hope is to offer a place where the whole of your life can be attended to with compassion, wisdom, and truth as we become curious together about what has shaped you and what greater freedom, connection, and formation in Christ might look like.
“We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.”
People often come to me because something in their life is no longer working as it once did. You may be carrying the effects of a painful experience, finding yourself caught in familiar relational patterns, navigating a season of loss or transition, or realizing that the ways you learned to survive and care for others have left little room to attend to your own story.
You may know that something needs attention without yet knowing exactly what it is.
Ongoing individual care offers a consistent place to tend to your story, relationships, emotional and spiritual life, and the circumstances you are navigating. Our work is Christ-centered, story-exploring, trauma-informed, and clinically informed, with space to move at a pace that allows trust, awareness, and meaningful change to develop over time.
Individual counseling and soul care are offered primarily online, allowing us to meet regularly without the limitations of location or travel.
Sometimes a particular part of your story needs more room than a traditional counseling hour can provide. Story + Soul Care Retreats offer extended, focused time to slow down, listen carefully, and give sustained attention to a story, wound, relationship, loss, pattern, or season that feels ready for deeper exploration.
Retreats are available in person in the greater Houston area as well as online. Each retreat includes intentional preparation and integration so that our time together is held within a larger rhythm of reflection, prayer, rest, and continued care.
There are parts of our stories that are difficult to heal or understand in isolation. Groups create space to practice being known, listen to the stories of others, and experience the kind of connection that can deepen both personal healing and spiritual formation.
My groups vary in focus and may include story work, contemplative spiritual formation, relational connection, or exploration of a particular theme. Most groups are offered online, making it possible to gather with others across locations while developing a consistent and intentional community.
“One life on this earth is all we get…and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.”
