Spirit in Session – Working with Your Client’s Spirituality (and Your Own) with Russell Siler Jones

About this Episode:

Mike speaks with Russell Siler Jones on the practical nuts and bolts of bringing spirituality into our work as counselors and mental health workers. They discuss attending to our clients spirituality (in whatever form that comes, attending to our own spirituality, and the intersection of psychotherapy and spiritual direction.

About Russell:

Russell Siler Jones is director of the Residency in Psychotherapy and Spirituality at CareNet/Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and a psychotherapist in private practice in Asheville, North Carolina. He is a diplomate in the American Association for Pastoral Counseling and a North Carolina licensed professional counselor supervisor. He is a graduate of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (Master of Divinity, 1986), and Columbia Theological Seminary (Doctor of Theology, 1999). Dr. Jones has trained extensively in Internal Family Systems Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and EMDR. A therapist for over 25 years, he has also worked as a case manager with chronically mentally ill adults, a pastor, and a hospital chaplain. He and his wife Jeanine live in Asheville and are parents of two adult children.

You can visit Russell’s website at http://www.silerjonescounseling.com/

And email him at russell@silerjonescounseling.com

Links & Resources:

Russell’s book: Spirit in Session: Working with Your Client’s Spirituality (and Your Own) in Psychotherapy

https://www.acpe.edu/

APA Citation for this Episode:

Shook, M. (Producer). (2020, June 2). EP173: Spirit in Session – Working with Your Client’s Spirituality (and Your Own) with Russell Siler Jones [Audio Podcast]. The Thoughtful Counselor. Retrieved from https://wp.me/p7R6fn-Xi5.

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