About
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from carrying your inner life without adequate support. The pressure to perform, to hold it together, to manage what is difficult without fully understanding it. For those of faith, this burden is often compounded by a sense that their spiritual life and their psychological struggles are somehow separate things, to be addressed in separate rooms by separate people.
At Embark Therapy, they belong together.
I am Will Michelson, LMFT, and I founded Embark to offer therapy that takes the whole person seriously. My work is depth-oriented and psychodynamic, which means we go beneath the surface of what is simply not working and into a more honest understanding of why. The wounds that have gone unexamined, the emotions that have never found expression, the beliefs formed long ago about what you deserve and what is possible for you. This is the territory we enter together.
What makes Embark distinct for those of faith is that your spiritual life is not set aside at the door. It is present throughout the work. I studied theology at Fuller Theological Seminary alongside my clinical training, and I have learned that the questions of psychology and the questions of faith are rarely as separate as some make them seem. Doubt, spiritual wound, a sense of calling that feels out of reach, a faith that has survived suffering but not without cost. All of it belongs in the room.
The result of this work is not simply relief. It is a deeper, more grounded relationship with yourself, with others, and with the God who made you.
Why I Became a Professional Christian Therapist
I did not become a Christian therapist simply because I wanted to integrate faith into practice. I became one because I believe that the deepest healing is always, in some sense, spiritual. That the wounds people carry are not just psychological events but disruptions in their sense of meaning, belonging, and belovedness. And that genuine restoration requires attending to all of it.
My training at Fuller Theological Seminary shaped not only what I know but how I listen. Alongside clinical psychology, I studied the history of Christian thought, spiritual formation, and the theology of suffering. That formation lives in how I sit with people. I am not simply respectful of faith. I am formed by it, moved by it, and convinced that it has something essential to offer the work of healing.
What I offer clients is a space where their full humanity is welcome. Where prayer can be part of a session if that is meaningful to them. Where Scripture can be held alongside psychological insight rather than set against it. Where the presence of God is not an add-on but an invitation woven into the work itself.
I have walked alongside people through deconstruction and renewal, through church hurt and deep faith, through the quiet ache of feeling spiritually unseen and the unexpected grace of finding themselves again. It is the most meaningful work I know how to do.
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