Christ & Therapy

Guest Blogger: Kenny Goubert

Intended Audience: Faith Community, General Public

Therapy has been something that has been so crucial in my life - recently I moved down to Georgia and started a new job. I moved away from my family and my friends. I dropped everything to come to a place where I had no community, no outlets. As soon as I moved down here, my year long relationship ended. I was alone in an unfamiliar place with all these emotions and feelings bottled up and I was drowning in my anxiety and worry. My fears and my doubt over took me.

As a student pastor, I have been required to give consistently - to continue to pour out and show others who Jesus is and how He loves. Which has been incredible, seeing students come to have a foundation of who Jesus is and how he loves them has truly been an experience of a life time. But I’ve lost track of how I feel in a lot of those moments. I’ve neglected and forgot to dive into how Jesus was impacting my life and how he is moving in me.

I learned that I have bottled up many emotions and feelings for a long time. I care deeply about others and their feelings rather than my own. I have realized that I do not love myself well. I realized that it’s difficult for me to articulate my feelings and my thoughts well. This led me to start looking into therapy. I do believe that God can move radically within therapy - I started therapy at the beginning of February and I have loved every minute of it.

It has given me an outlet to express my feelings with no judgement, I can articulate how I am feeling and having someone understand has been incredible. I do believe that I am walking in obedience through counseling and therapy to grow in the areas where I am weak. Through therapy - I realized that I matter, my heart matters, my mind matters. I have a lot to give, but I do need outlets to where I can unload. God is good, and has been faithful through every aspect of therapy.

My name is Kenny Goubert, I am 24 years old who’s currently living in Kennesaw Georgia working as a student pastor at Summit Baptist Church. I graduated from North Greenville University, December of 2020 with a degree in Interdisciplinary studies with communications and psychology. I am passionate about Jesus, golf and coffee!