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** I am accepting new clients on a case-by-case basis. To request an appointment with me, please email me at the address below and include a few details about your needs. **
Contact Christie: christie@christielacy.com
When I think of my work, I see myself as partnering with the Holy Spirit to help people through their various trials. I consider it one of my most profound honors to hold space and bear witness to the stories my counselees share, stories of suffering and celebration, heartache and joy. I’m a companion and guide who listens and offers insight. Some seasons require more direction or counsel than others. Some seasons require a good digging or prodding to identify painful wounds, patterns of unbelief or roots of sinful behaviors. Some just need healing and holding space, naming and talking things out, and space to feel whole, unedited feelings. In some seasons, there are weekly meetings; in others, there are monthly meetings. Every person/couple is different, and every counseling situation is unique. I make a conscious effort to approach each session as such.
Through narrative-focused storywork, I help people to engage their history—places and times in life when they were wounded or traumatized—when they began to believe distortions and how they learned to cope with all the fragmenting. This work helps us discover God’s invitation to us for our present and future.
As the Word of God has worked so powerfully in my own life, I desire to invite people into the same kind of freedom and transformation I have found—kind and gracious words, not heavy-handed or legalistic. I routinely incorporate various practices in our time together: practicing attuning to the presence of God, naming emotions, lamenting, and listening for God’s voice. Practices such as silence, prayer, poetry and music are very often part and parcel of the work I offer. Ultimately, all of this is an effort to help those I care for rest in the real, wildly mysterious and present comfort of God’s love for them.
Because we move from glory to glory, it is important to remember that this work is an ongoing project. Life is a process of unbecoming who the world around us has often forced us to be and becoming our transformed, renewed self in Christ. I’ve seen the Lord do beautiful things through counseling. Some of it feels pretty great, and some feels super difficult. No matter where we land, any given week, I aim to journey with you with an agenda of restoration and wholeness. So whether you need counseling as preventative work or whether you need reparative work, restored wholeness with Christ is always the focus and goal. The transformative nature of this process is what gives us hope and inspiration.
Journeying with others as they make their way closer to the heart of Christ and witnessing the transformation that occurs in them is one of the most fulfilling parts of counseling. Like Gandalf, I am a steward. Stewarding souls toward beauty and glorying the Lord draws me closer to the Lord as I see him so intimately at work. I have the opportunity to see the Holy Spirit moving, helping, and encouraging people along the way. I consider it a deep privilege to hold space for others as they journey through life. I desire to be a safe place, to be a non-anxious presence of rest, peace, and healing. My approach is not rushed or corrective, but I seek to walk alongside saints, sinners, and sufferers as they courageously seek hope and healing. Not only is it a privilege but a joy to steward souls.
My training is clinically informed. God created our bodies with much complexity, and we must be cared for in a manner that attends to both the body and the soul. I am certified through the Association of Biblical Counselors and have training in Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI—an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children) and I am currently training in Narrative-Focused Trauma Care. I am also a Level 2 Certified Christian Trauma Care Provider and a Certified Enneagram Coach.
I have been married for 23 years and am a mother to three young adults. Marriage and raising kids have been the most delightful and sanctifying opportunities the Lord has given me.
My hourly rate is $125. I am accepting new clients on a case-by-case basis. To request an appointment with me, please email me at the address below and include a few details about your needs.
Contact Christie: christie@christielacy.com
** Christie’s training is biblical in nature and she does not hold an LPC in the state of Texas.
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