A Biblical Assessment of Emotionally Focused Therapy on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified

Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that

people face. And here we are again in the month of May, and it is Mental Health Awareness Month,

and as has been our custom the past several years, I do want us to turn our attention to consider

this whole paradigm, this idea, if you will, of

mental health. And certainly it's very common to us. People don't question that paradigm often.

What I've really enjoyed doing the past couple of years is either doing some sort of looking

back into history so that you have a better understanding of mental health, where it came

from, where that language comes from, what builds the idea of mental health, how we got to the

points to where we are today. And then we've also done particular critiques, looking at things

through a biblical lens, trying to have a biblical analysis of different types of therapy. And I want

us to consider a therapy that I think is

really impacted us, maybe unknowingly. You may or may not know emotionally focused therapy.

Maybe you've never heard of it. But I would guarantee you that you've been impacted by some of the

ideologies that are found in this idea of emotionally focused therapy.

And today on the podcast I have with me one of my PhD students, Marshall Adkins.

I'm so grateful for Marshall, his service in Bardstown, Kentucky at Parkway Baptist Church.

He's the pastor of adult discipleship there.

He's married to his wife, Rachel, and they have three young kids. He was

ACBC certified back in 2020, and I really enjoyed getting to know Marshall through his

relationship with me as a student and just his work, been very impressed and really

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