“Not all Christian Counselors Counsel Biblically.” – Jane Perkins

THAT CONVICTION CHANGED EVERYTHING.

I spent fifteen years working inside community counseling agencies, sitting with women facing addiction, anxiety, depression, grief, OCD, and the kind of pain that does not have a clean clinical name. I watched them suffer as they kept trying harder. And I watched the system hand them tools that were never designed to reach the deepest part of what was broken.

Agency counseling facilities required clinical staff to dismiss God's role in healing. Traditional psychology overemphasizes the self, ignoring sin and many deny the spiritual dimension of the soul entirely. They rely on human understanding as the remedy for human suffering.

As a Christian, that felt like having the cure for cancer and being told not to share it.

I knew God's Word had answers, real answers, not platitudes, for every struggle I was watching people carry. And I knew I could not keep sitting across from them and pretending otherwise.

So I left. And I built something different.

WHO AM I?

Jane Perkins is a licensed clinical professional counselor who offers coaching from a Christian perspective

My name is Jane Perkins. I hold a Master's degree in Counseling from an accredited university program and have spent 26 years as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC). I am licensed to provide clinical counseling in Illinois and Missouri, and I have spent the majority of my career specializing in anxiety, panic, compulsive behaviors, and complex grief and loss.

I am also trained in Biblical Counseling through organizations including the Christian Counseling and Education Foundation (CCEF), the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC), and the Biblical Counseling Coalition (BCC). I stay current in both evidence-based clinical practice and in Scripture — because I believe both matter, and I refuse to choose between them.

But here is what I most want you to know about how I work.

I am not the kind of counselor who sits across from you and says, "So how does that make you feel? What do you think you should do next?" I believe God has answers — specific, personal, powerful answers — and I want to go there with you. That means we open the Bible. We talk about who God is, what He says about you, and how He designed people to actually live. The goal is not temporary relief. It is real, lasting transformation rooted in truth.

Most women come to me because of anxiety, loneliness, relationship pain, confusion, or a quiet sense that something is off and they cannot name it. What I have learned over 26 years is that the struggles on the surface almost always go deeper. So I ask questions like:

•Who is God, really?

•What do you actually believe about yourself, and where did that come from?

•What is driving your emotions, your choices, your patterns?

•Where are you finding your identity, your hope, your meaning?

The Bible is clear that people were created first and foremost for relationship with God. And I have seen, over and over, that anxiety, people-pleasing, fear, shame, and broken relationships almost always trace back to wounds, false beliefs, or simply not knowing who God is. That is not a judgment. That is just what I have observed.