Hosanna Counseling is a non-denominational Christian counseling organization that has been serving Santa Monica and the surrounding communities since its incorporation in 1986. Our staff is comprised of licensed marriage and family therapists and interns - each of whom considers themselves a committed Christian.

As a non-denominational religious organization, we subscribe to the notion that at its heart, the Christian faith and Christian spirituality are ecumenical. We believe that God transcends denomination and is truly relational - lovingly connecting with his beloved through all Christ-centered denominations.

Our work as therapists is to help you through the development of a caring and non-judgmental relationship – the working alliance. Experience has taught us the integration of Christianity and counseling is most effective when we develop an understanding of you as a person – and about how your faith might be a resource or a source of tension in what brings you to therapy in the first place. We do not preach and we do not proselytize.

Our job is to be as helpful as we can to a person, whatever situation they bring to us.

That said, we believe that an understanding of the love of God is fundamental to healing and transformation. Accordingly, we adapt our clinical and counseling services on a case-by-case basis to incorporate Christian Spirituality and Scripture in a manner directed by our clients.

In the short term, our services are designed to help alleviate emotional pain, relational problems and psychological suffering. In the longer term, in collaboration with our clients, we seek to promote personal growth and development in a framework of spiritual, emotional and relational maturity.

And of course, we love helping people.

For over twenty years, Hosanna Ministries has been committed to providing counseling and psychotherapy services that stand as an excellent witness to both the Church-at-large and to the psychological/secular community. This commitment is evidenced through our dedication as therapists to stay current with cutting edge research on what is most likely to facilitate successful therapeutic outcomes, and by remaining rooted and grounded in our faith.

Hosanna is also a training center for interning therapists eager to learn how to thoughtfully and ethically integrate the complex relationship between Christianity, counseling and psychotherapy. This helps fulfill our mission to extend the resource and influence of counseling and psychotherapy by offering sliding scale services to those who cannot afford to pay market rates for professional counseling services.

Therapists at Hosanna hold the canon of Scripture as having final authority over the canon of psychology. And while the majority of our clients are from the local Church, many of our clients do not self-identify as Christians. They come as seekers – no so much in search of Jesus - but more out of an intuitive desire to receive help from a person who is grounded in what they believe. So to those of you who count yourselves among these, we are committed to helping you in any way that we can. And finally, to those of you who are just seeking help and are not seeking therapy that includes any spiritual integration whatsoever, we are also here for you.