Joel Peterson

Joel graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary with a Master’s degree in Biblical Counseling. His professional background includes a variety of settings like church counseling ministry, working alongside counseling pastors, supporting individual and group therapy. He also served as a program therapist, working at an inpatient mental health facility in North Texas, serving individuals and families by restoring relationships in the midst of difficult addictive behaviors. In 2015 Joel served as the Director of Equip the Nations, a wing of Association of Biblical Counselors, where he traveled internationally to teach an introduction to biblical counseling course to pastors in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. Joel has also led marriage weekend group intensives at a local church.

As a Christian counselor and therapist, Joel carefully connects people and their experiences to God and his design for their life. He listens, thinks carefully, is down-to-earth personally, and connects truth with love. He specializes in therapy for clients who wrestle and struggle with anxiety, pornography addiction, depression, grief, obsessive compulsive disorder, and relationship struggles. He counsels teens (15 and up), young adults, young couples, adults, and seniors.