Hey friends, welcome to the Natasha Crane podcast.

I have wanted to do an episode on today's topic for a very long time.

Therapy has become increasingly popular in the last several years, including among Christians,

and yet this is an

area that I don't think enough Christians are thinking biblically about. And if we don't know how

to think biblically about the mental help we seek, there can be devastating consequences.

I have heard so many tragic stories from families torn apart by the Council of Secular Therapists, and even

those identifying as Christian therapists. And I knew it was something I wanted to speak to here

on the podcast. I just hadn't figured out how I wanted to approach the episode yet. Well, a few

weeks back, a publicist reached out to me to offer a copy of Dr. Greg Gifford's new book,

Lies My Therapist Told Me, Why Christians should aim for more than just treating symptoms. I wasn't familiar with Gifford before, but

the book had endorsements from several people I know to be biblically solid, so I was immediately

excited that there was this new book that was critiquing secular therapeutic approaches from a

biblical perspective. I asked for a copy right away, and I devoured it. Well, Gifford's book,

then, is the catalyst for the timing of this particular episode, but I want to be clear that I'm not

doing this as a review of the book. It's not about the book, per se. I've wanted to discuss

the subject for a long time now, and now that a book-length treatment of the subject from It's not about the book per se. I've wanted to discuss the subject for a long time now,

and now that a book-length treatment of the subject from a Christian perspective exists, it makes

a great launching point for this discussion. So I'll be taking some key points that Gifford makes

that I too wanted to make, and I'll also point you to his book as a resource for digging deeper

on some of what I'm talking about here because I can't cover

it all in this episode. And I'm really happy to have a resource that I can point people to on this

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