Christ in Private Practice

After 102 episodes, the Christ in Private Practice podcast is coming to a close. Only the podcast, not everything else.

When this podcast began, I believed the Lord gave me a simple instruction: “Camille, just speak up.”

So I did.

Over more than 100 episodes, we've talked about ethical faith integration, clinical competence, private practice, professional development, difficult issues within the mental health profession, and what it means to practice responsibly while remaining grounded in Christian faith.

In this final episode, I reflect on why I started the podcast, what this journey has meant to me, and why I believe this particular assignment is now complete.

But completing one assignment doesn't mean the work is over.

Sometimes faithfulness means having the courage to begin. Sometimes it also means recognizing when a season has ended and being willing to make room for what God may have for you next.

As I close the podcast chapter, I also want to ask you:

Is there something God asked you to do that you've completed, but you're still holding onto because you're unsure what's next?

Thank you to every listener, guest, educator, clinician, and colleague who listened, shared an episode, joined a conversation, or supported Christ in Private Practice along the way. I am deeply grateful.

The podcast may be ending, but Christ in Private Practice is continuing.

The full library of 102 episodes will remain available, and I'll continue supporting mental health professionals through faith and business consultation, the Faith Integration Consultation Circle, continuing education, professional gatherings, and other resources.

Stay connected with Christ in Private Practice:
Visit ChristinPrivatePractice.com to explore the podcast library, professional resources, consultation opportunities, CE trainings, and information about joining the Faith Integration Consultation Circle.

If an episode of Christ in Private Practice has encouraged or helped you along the way, I would also love for you to share the podcast with another mental health professional who may benefit from these conversations.

Thank you for being part of this journey.

Take care of yourself, and God bless.

Camille McDaniel, LPC
Founder & Host, Christ in Private Practice

What can you do when you want or need to increase your income as a mental health clinician?

You’ve probably heard some great suggestions, but they don’t all produce income on the same timeline.

In this episode of Christ in Private Practice, Camille McDaniel, LPC shares a more realistic way to think about building income beyond the therapy hour: Now, Next, and Later.

We’ll talk about strategies that may help increase referrals and income now, opportunities that can take several months to develop, and longer-term projects that may take years to fully grow. Camille also shares lessons from her own experience with private practice, continuing education, consultation, writing books, networking, and developing additional professional opportunities.

🎧 Listen to the full episode, then share it with another clinician who has been asking, “What else can I do?”

For more resources, continuing education opportunities, and support for Christian mental health professionals, visit Christ in Private Practice.

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🎉 Christ in Private Practice has reached 100 episodes!

For this milestone conversation, Camille McDaniel, LPC is joined by returning guests Diana S. Rice, LMHC, CIMHP, QS and Melissa Gendreau, LMHC for an honest roundtable about a question Christian mental health professionals increasingly face:

How do we thoughtfully evaluate treatment modalities through a biblical worldview without allowing fear, assumptions, or disagreement to polarize us from one another?

Before asking whether a modality is compatible with our faith, this conversation challenges clinicians to examine what webring to the evaluation, including our clinical training, church traditions, personal experiences, wounds, values, assumptions, and blind spots.

Ultimately, this episode isn't about telling Christian clinicians which modalities they should or shouldn't use.

It's about learning to ask better questions.

How did I reach this conclusion?
What assumptions am I bringing with me?
Have I actually studied the modality?
Is this conviction, unfamiliarity, fear, personal history or something else?
Have I sought Scripture in context, accurate information, prayer, professional wisdom, and wise counsel?

As Diana reminds us in the conversation, we need to “ask better questions and pause” as we seek to understand why we believe what we believe. That kind of reflection can strengthen not only our clinical decision-making, but also how we serve our clients and relate to one another as professionals and believers.

🎙️ Welcome to Episode 100 of Christ in Private Practice.

Thank you for listening, learning, questioning, and growing with us through these first 100 conversations.

Here’s to the next chapter.

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What helps you determine whether your concern about a treatment modality reflects informed clinical and spiritual discernment or simply discomfort with something unfamiliar?

Share your thoughts in the comments.

What would you do if you were not afraid?

Would you finally offer Christian-integrated counseling more openly? Write the book that's been on your heart? Develop the training? Start the practice or program you've been thinking about? Become more visible?

Or would courage actually mean doing less, reducing your caseload, stepping away from a professional role, spending more time with your family, or refusing to keep pace with what everyone else appears to be accomplishing?

In Episode 99 of Christ in Private Practice, Camille McDaniel, LPC, examines The Profile of Fear and the subtle ways fear can keep Christian clinicians paused between what they believe they are being led to do and actually doing it.

We'll also distinguish feeling fear from being governed by fear and consider how Christian clinicians can respond to legitimate professional and ethical concerns without allowing those concerns to become reasons for indefinite hesitation.

Sometimes courage means stepping forward.

Sometimes courage means stepping back.

The question is: What would you do if you were not afraid?

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Complete the continuing education requirements for this episode through Christ in Private Practice.

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What happens when a client tells you something deeply concerning, but they don’t sound concerned?

No tears. No trembling. No obvious anxiety. Maybe they laugh, minimize what happened, or tell the story in the same matter-of-fact tone they might use to describe their day.

And then they move on.

Do you move on with them?

In this episode of Christ in Private Practice, Camille McDaniel, LPC explores how clinicians can miss significant trauma, violence, abuse, and other painful experiences when we unconsciously rely on a client’s affect to tell us how serious something was.

You’ll learn how to listen for high-significance, low-affect disclosures and recognize the sentences that deserve another question, even when the client doesn’t appear visibly distressed.

The question is: Can we hear the severity of the story when the client’s affect doesn’t announce it?

🎓 Earn 1 Continuing Education Hour

This episode qualifies for 1 CE hour through Christ in Private Practice.

Listen to the episode, then visit Christ in Private Practice to complete the CE requirements and receive your certificate.

Christ in Private Practice is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 8038).

🎧 Listen. Learn. And share this episode with another clinician who may benefit.

Many clinicians receive little or no training on how to market themselves ethically while still building a thriving practice.

In this 1 CE continuing education episode, Camille McDaniel, LPC, explores how counselors can confidently promote their services while remaining faithful to professional ethical standards and their Christian values.

You'll learn:

• What ethical marketing actually means
• Advertising standards across the ACA, APA, NASW, and AAMFT Codes of Ethics
• Why testimonials require careful ethical consideration
• How to avoid misleading marketing language and unrealistic promises
• Ethical decision-making models that can guide advertising choices
• How to communicate a Christian worldview without excluding potential clients
• Practical website and branding language for faith-integrated practices

Whether you are building a new practice or refining an established one, this episode will help you market with integrity, transparency, and professionalism.

🎓 Earn 1 NBCC-approved CE Hour by completing the post-test and evaluation through Christ in Private Practice.

➡️ Learn more and access CE credit at www.christinprivatepractice.com

If this episode was helpful, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with another clinician committed to ethical, faith-informed practice.

Can you faithfully practice as a Christian clinician in a workplace that doesn't seem to understand your worldview?

Many counselors wrestle with questions about faith integration, organizational policies, and professional ethics. In this CE episode, Camille McDaniel, LPC, explores how Christian clinicians can navigate cautious, restrictive, and unsupportive workplace environments without compromising either their professional ethics or their Christian convictions.

You'll learn how to distinguish between a Christian worldview and explicit Christian interventions, understand the role of workplace culture, and apply the practical STOP Clinical Decision Framework to difficult ethical situations.

Whether you work in private practice, community mental health, hospitals, schools, or integrated care, this episode offers practical guidance for practicing with wisdom, integrity, and clinical excellence.

Learning Topics
• Christian worldview vs. Christian interventions
• Ethical faith integration
• Organizational culture and workplace dynamics
• Professional identity
• Clinical decision-making
• The STOP Clinical Decision Framework

🎓 NBCC Continuing Education is available through Christ in Private Practice.

Can sincere faith ever become entangled with anxiety?

In this episode, we examine scrupulosity (religious OCD), a form of obsessive compulsive disorder in which intrusive thoughts and urges like, repeated confession, reassurance-seeking, and fears about sin, salvation, or offending God begin to interfere with a person's spiritual life.

This episode is designed specifically for Christian counselors and explores how to distinguish healthy spiritual conviction from anxiety-driven compulsions. You'll learn practical assessment strategies, differential diagnosis, evidence-based treatment considerations, and ways to thoughtfully integrate Scripture and faith without unintentionally reinforcing the obsessive compulsive cycle.

Whether you've encountered clients who repeatedly question their salvation, struggle with intrusive blasphemous thoughts, or seek constant reassurance about God's forgiveness, this episode will provide practical guidance for clinical practice.

In this episode you'll learn:

• How to recognize scrupulosity in the counseling room
• Healthy conviction vs. religious OCD
• Common obsessions and compulsions
• Assessment and differential diagnosis
• Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
• Integrating faith without reinforcing OCD
• Practical treatment considerations for Christian counselors

🎓 Earn 1 NBCC CE Hour through Christ in Private Practice by completing the accompanying materials and quiz.

What happens when one of counseling's most researched relationship-based therapies is examined through a biblical worldview?

In this episode of the Summer Faith Integration Skills Lab, we're exploring Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and asking an important question:

Can Christian counselors use IPT while remaining faithful to Scripture?

Whether you already use IPT or simply want a stronger framework for evaluating evidence-based therapies through a biblical lens, this episode offers practical guidance grounded in both clinical excellence and biblical truth.

Christian counselors shouldn't have to choose between evidence-based practice and faithfully following Christ.

Not every biblical truth should be shared the moment it comes to mind.

In this CE episode of Christ in Private Practice, we explore one of the most overlooked clinical skills in faith integration: timing.

You'll learn about:
✔️ Spiritual bypassing
✔️ Premature encouragement
✔️ Premature forgiveness
✔️ Shame-based spiritual responses
✔️ The difference between truth and timing
✔️ The PAUSE Framework for ethical Scripture integration

If you're a Christian mental health professional who wants to integrate faith ethically, biblically, and clinically, this episode is for you.

If this episode strengthens your practice, please like, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with another Christian counselor who would benefit from the conversation.