Is Trauma-Informed Counseling Biblical or Dangerous?

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🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Is trauma-informed counseling biblical—or is it undermining the sufficiency of Scripture? In this episode of Remnant Radio, we take a careful, biblical look at trauma-informed care, responding to recent critiques from pastors, biblical counselors, and theologians who argue that trauma-informed counseling is harming the church. Some claim that if Christians would simply repent, trust Jesus, and obey Scripture, trauma-informed approaches would be unnecessary—or even dangerous. So how should C...

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Joshua Lewis here with Remnant Radio, and I'll tell you about Rimcon this spring in San Diego, California.
0:06.8	The dates are February 5th through the 7th, and the subject of the conference is growing in the Gifts of the Spirit.
0:12.3	You can join us there in person or via live stream, and what you're going to get out of that conference is some serious theological training on the gifts of the Spirit.
0:22.6	What are they? How do they operate?
0:28.1	There's also going to be opportunities to break out and practice spiritual gifts in a kind of biblical,
0:33.9	safe, and orderly way. We've got lectures from myself, Michael Miller, Michael Roundtry, John Mark Baker, from the Minor Prophets, and Dr. Sam Storms. So if you're looking to move beyond just the theoretical and learning the theology of spiritual gifts,
0:41.9	but you're actually wanting to start practicing them for yourself,
0:45.1	I'd encourage you to come out and hang out with us February 5th through the 7th there in San Diego, California.
0:51.6	Welcome to the wonderful world of Remnant Radio.
0:53.5	My name's Michael Roundtree, and today we're going to be tackling the question, is trauma-informed
0:58.0	care biblical?
1:00.2	The inspiration for this episode was a number of the public critiques that I've been
1:05.8	seeing lately on social media.
1:07.2	I'll share a few of them with you.
1:09.2	This one's from Jared Moore, who is a pastor in
1:11.4	Ph.D. in theology from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He says this. He says,
1:16.2	trauma-informed counseling is destroying people. What happened to you is not your fault,
1:20.9	but what you feel, think, and do today is. Repent of everything in you that is contrary to God.
1:25.6	Run to Jesus, enjoy him, and live his morality from your heart.
1:28.4	God can heal you.
1:29.7	Will you trust him?
1:31.3	Another critique comes from the Everyman Theologian.
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