Explore groundbreaking findings on how spiritual struggles can impact psychological distress during psychotherapy. We discuss recent practice-based research, clinical implications, and why attending to clients’ spiritual concerns can enhance recovery. Discover practical strategies for integrating spirituality into mental health care.

Spirituality was once sidelined in psychology, but that’s changing. This episode explores the rise of spiritually integrated psychotherapies and what this shift means for healing, meaning, and mental health care today.

Future episodes in this series will feature memoir-based reflections, research findings, case examples, clinical guidelines, and self-help recommendations for the public.

An episode exploring how mainstream psychology came to view religion with suspicion, and how Allen E. Bergin challenged that bias by bringing religious values and spirituality into the center of psychotherapy. We also look at P. Scott Richards’ collaboration with Bergin and the research, books, and clinical insights that helped make spiritually integrated care more credible, practical, and humane.

A reflective solo episode in which David explores what he learned from Scott Richards’s memoir: the childhood shock of discovering his father’s depression, the long road of recovery, and the role that faith, spirituality, counseling, and medication played in helping him endure and heal.

Along the way, the episode also connects Scott’s story to the mission of the Bridges Institute and its work to advance spiritually integrated psychotherapy.