Renovation Biblical Counseling, PLLC

Renovation Biblical Counseling, PLLC Christ-centered Christian Counseling for adults, teens, couples, families, and groups.

I am a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and EMDR therapist providing counseling and therapeutic intervention from a Biblical perspective. My office is located in Lakewood, Washington, near the Lakewood Towne Center. I am trained to work with adults, adolescents, couples, families, and groups. Although I work with depression, anxiety, and a wide variety of life challenges, my specialties are marital counseling, trauma, eating disorders, substance abuse and addiction, blended families, and spiritual development. My focus areas are motivated from life experiences that I have dealt with personally or in relationship with a loved one, therefore I delight and derive an enormous sense of purpose in assisting those struggling with similar issues. Since no two people are exactly alike, it stands to reason that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to counseling. Each person’s journey is unique, and solutions to stressed relationships and life’s difficulties must be tailor-made. Concepts, interventions, and “gold nuggets” from Cognitive Behavioral, Solution-Focused, Values-Based, Narrative, Family Systems, and other therapies are employed when helpful and harmonious with God’s thoughts and ways as revealed in Scripture. My goal is to assist clients to learn about themselves, grow, and put together their own emotional and mental health toolboxes so they can overcome present challenges and any future problems encountered in life. I provide a safe and supportive place for people to come and unload and be who they really are right now, flaws and all. For some people it takes a lot of courage to allow themselves to be vulnerable and let someone into the most painful places in their lives. I am patient and gentle, and take as long as needed to build rapport and trust with each person. Facing difficulties in life can be become opportunities for tremendous change and growth. Office hours: Monday through Thursday, including some evening appointments.

How to Discipline your Flesh, Walk in Self-Control, and Develop the Skill of WaitingThe terms discipline, self-control, ...
11/21/2025

How to Discipline your Flesh, Walk in Self-Control, and Develop the Skill of Waiting

The terms discipline, self-control, and waiting refer to a spiritual muscle that must be flexed and exercised if you want it to shape your life.

The word "wait" is mentioned 144 times in the NKJV. The specific phrase "wait on the Lord" appears 5 times and topically 116 times. Clearly, the ability to wait is something God wants us to develop and a skill we're going to need!

Self-control is one of the nine fruit of the spirit. We received it at salvation in what I refer to as "seed form," but it must be fertilized, watered, and cultivated to become the "full corn in the ear" (maturity.)
Just as you exercise physical muscles in the gym to gain strength and endurance, so must spiritual muscle be exercised. Many times the Gym of Life presents numerous opportunities to exercise spiritual muscle, but did you know you can also exercise spiritual muscle on purpose?

Here are some ideas:

DELAY
--Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
--Wait 10 minutes before you start eating.
--Go 2 hours (or longer) without looking at your phone.
--Wait an extra week to get a haircut or have your nails done.
--Fast an extra hour.
--Skip a day of a particular food, beverage, activity, or luxury you would normally enjoy.
--Put off anything you want for a length of time.

ADD
--Do an extra set during one of your fitness exercises.
--Bump up the weight for one set.
--Add 5 minutes to the time you planned on the treadmill
--Pray 10 minutes more
--Add time to anything when you feel like stopping.

SUBTRACT
--Eat less than you want to.
--Don't buy the thing.
--Skip the whipped cream or creamer in your coffee
--Abstain from luxuries for a day.

REFUSE
--Be anxious for nothing (Phil 4:6). Refuse to be anxious.
--Wait on the Lord (Psalm 27:14). Refuse to be impatient.
--Trust in the Lord (Psalm 37:3). Refuse to doubt.
--Take every thought captive (2 Cor. 10:5). Refuse to be victim to your thoughts.

With practice, discipline, self-control, and the ability to wait will increase so that when the storms of life hit ( and they will), you will be a ready soldier.





Thank God!
11/20/2025

Thank God!

Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices is a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

11/20/2025

You can live your life so devoted to God that heaven meets earth through your life and changes the eternal trajectory of souls.

Shared by a friend who knows how to make me laugh.
11/20/2025

Shared by a friend who knows how to make me laugh.

11/19/2025
11/19/2025

What It Means to Dust Your Feet

There comes a moment in every believer’s journey when God calls us to release what no longer honors Him. Jesus told the disciples that if a city would not receive them, they were to dust their feet as they left. This wasn’t anger. It wasn’t rejection. It was freedom.

To dust your feet means you refuse to carry the residue of where you’ve been into where God is taking you next. It means you release offense so it doesn’t poison your assignment. It means you let go of old expectations, broken conversations, or painful experiences that try to cling to your soul.

Dust can seem small. But even a little dust can slow you down, irritate your stride, and weigh down your spirit. God is calling you to travel light. Move forward without the weight of yesterday’s disappointments. Shake off rejection. Shake off misunderstanding. Shake off the fear that tries to cling to your steps.

Your future is too important to let yesterday’s dust cloud your vision. Lift your head and walk on. God still has doors to open, people to bless through you, and promises waiting ahead. When you release what didn’t receive you, you make room for what will.

Prayer:
Lord, teach me how to walk free. Help me leave behind every weight, every wound, and every word that tries to hold me back. I shake off what You never intended me to carry. Lead me into the next chapter with clarity and peace. In Jesus’s name. Amen.

11/16/2025

A wise person once said, "When they show you who they are, believe them."

11/15/2025
11/05/2025

As pilgrims on the journey to boundless communion with our heavenly Father, we are called to be marked by a sustaining and transcendent joy.

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I am a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) providing counseling and therapeutic intervention from a Biblical perspective. My offices are located in Puyallup and Lakewood, Washington. I am trained to work with adults, adolescents, couples, families, and groups. Although I work with depression, anxiety, and a wide variety of life challenges, my specialties are marital counseling, eating disorders, substance abuse and addiction, blended families, and spiritual development. My focus areas are motivated from life experiences that I have dealt with personally or in relationship with a loved one, therefore I delight and derive an enormous sense of purpose in assisting those struggling with similar issues. Since no two people are exactly alike, it stands to reason that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to counseling. Each person’s journey is unique, and solutions to stressed relationships and life’s difficulties must be tailor-made. Concepts, interventions, and “gold nuggets” from Cognitive Behavioral, Solution-Focused, Values-Based, Narrative, Family Systems, and other therapies are employed when helpful and harmonious with God’s thoughts and ways as revealed in Scripture. My goal is to assist clients to learn about themselves, grow, and put together their own emotional and mental health toolboxes so they can overcome present challenges and any future problems encountered in life. I provide a safe and supportive place for people to come and unload and be who they really are right now, flaws and all. For some people it takes a lot of courage to allow themselves to be vulnerable and let someone into the most painful places in their lives. I am patient and gentle, and take as long as needed to build rapport and trust with each person. Facing difficulties in life can be become opportunities for tremendous change and growth. Office hours: Monday through Thursday, including some evening appointments.