"If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn’t need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river."
― Michael Neill
Counseling
From Misery to Bliss
Individual or Group Counseling with Bill
It's okay not to be okay. It's okay to be okay. And it's okay to be more than okay.
What if the reason for your struggle — your anxiety, your sadness, your fear, whatever it is — isn't that something's wrong with you?
What if we took that off the table?
What if it was never that you're broken, or missing something, or need fixing — but simply the innocent misuse of one of the most incredible gifts God has ever given you, one almost nobody has ever told you about?
I call this journey from misery to bliss. It's mine too. Still is, some days.
I'm Bill — an ordained pastor and licensed psychotherapist.
I help people — especially Christians — who are struggling with depression, anxiety, or whatever it might be, feel better more and more of the time by waking up to the mental health and wellbeing God already put in them, so they can live in:
Less anxiety, more peace.
Less depression, more joy.
Less fear, more love.
All without unending therapy, self-help, or effort.
Seems too good to be true. I know. But wouldn't that be just like God?
Who this is for
The people who find their way to me have usually tried a lot of things. Therapy. Medication. Self-help books. More prayer. More effort. Some of it helped for a while. None of it really stuck.
If you're here, there's probably something weighing on you — anxiety, depression, sadness, a mind that won't turn off, a low-grade heaviness you can't quite name. You go to church, you love Jesus, and you still wonder why your faith doesn't seem to be "working." You look around on Sunday and everyone else seems fine, and you wonder what's wrong with you. Maybe you're even the one leading that Sunday, carrying weight most people never see.
And this isn't only for people who are struggling. It's for anyone who's doing okay and wants more — more joy, more peace, more of the life Jesus talked about. This isn't a rescue operation. It's an invitation into more life, for anyone who wants it.
Jesus didn't come so we'd get by. He came so we'd come alive — now, not just someday. More life, in your life.
Who this isn't for
This probably isn't for you if you're looking for a program to follow, steps to complete, or someone to hold you accountable to try harder. I'm not going to hand you more to do — no homework, no journaling, no disciplines, more effort piled on top of the effort you've already given. If that's what you need, there are good people who do that well. I'm just not one of them.
This isn't for you if you're looking for someone to just sit and listen and reflect your feelings back to you. I'll listen — but this is directive, educational work.
What I offer
I work with a limited number of people at a time, so I can give each one my full attention.
I help people who are done trying to fix themselves and are ready for real, lasting change.
What I offer is the opportunity, through transformational teaching and conversation, for you to arrive at real insight — the kind that can change things.
We start with a foundation: six sessions over two months — individually, or as a small group if you'd like to bring some others along for the journey.
We'll have conversations that point you to something you already have but probably aren't aware of — a deep more-than-okayness built in that doesn't depend on any circumstances to be experienced. It's your innate mental health, and it has to do with the inside-out understanding of how life really works.
At the end of those six sessions, you decide what's next. Maybe it's another six. Maybe it's a different rhythm. Maybe you've got what you came for. I'm not here to keep you in therapy forever — I'm here to help you find what's already yours, and what will work best for you going forward.
2-Month Change & Care Package — $750
Six 60–75 minute Zoom sessions
Text, email, and phone support between sessions, as needed
Six sessions builds the foundation. After that, you decide what works for you if you'd like to go further.
(Clinical psychotherapy available for Minnesota residents. For everyone else, this is pastoral care and counseling, conversation, coaching, and transformative teaching. Different in name, but with the same care, presence, and opportunity for insight.)
Group cohorts open a few times a year. If you'd rather journey through this with a small group of others, email me and I'll let you know when the next one begins.
Maybe you're ready. Maybe you're not, and that's okay too. Email me at bill@morethanokay.me. No pressure. Just a conversation to start.
If a picture could say what words can't — this is it. From misery... to bliss. That's my hope for you. That's the journey I'd love to take with you.
P.S. For Pastors
I know how being in ministry can make life feel even heavier at times.
I just want you to know — I see you. I understand.
And I’m here for you if you’d like.