Hey, hey everyone. I am here with the last you asked episode, although I'm thinking I should say the last one for now because I have really really enjoyed meeting

listeners and having these live conversations. So many of you

submitted so many great questions that I ultimately left it to my

team to choose what I would be surprised with and I think they did an

incredible job so yeah we'll do this again for sure for 2021 anyway with that

said I want to welcome Kelly. She's our guest today.

Kelly say hello to your fellow in the Light listeners.

Hello everyone, I'm excited to be here.

Tell us a little bit about you.

Hi, so I am a marriage and family therapist in California

and I am also a mom of two little toddlers, two and five.

And yeah, so I'm living the pandemic life at home.

So that's awesome, a lot of fun, right?

Yeah.

And I was really excited to just have the chance to ask you some questions.

Well, I'm excited to hear them, so come on and hit me.

What do you got?

All right, so as a Christian is a therapist, I encounter a lot of questions from pastors and Christian leaders about,

okay, what is the difference between just giving counseling to someone and therapy?

Why do I need to send someone to therapy?

Well I think first of all I want to acknowledge that pastors have offered tremendous counsel to people in distress for centuries, forever, right?

Yeah, definitely, yeah. I never want to discount the incredible role that they play as front line responders in emotional emergencies.

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