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Many Latter-day Saints who come to Therapy Utah are already meeting with their bishop and wonder how professional therapy fits in. The short answer: your bishop and your therapist serve different, complementary roles — and you stay in control of what is shared.
Two Different Roles
Your bishop supports your spiritual life and the repentance process. Your therapist provides confidential clinical care for the psychological, emotional, and relational dimensions of what you are facing. Neither replaces the other. Research shows that therapy which respects a client’s faith can improve both psychological and spiritual wellbeing (Captari et al., 2018).
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Your Confidentiality
What you share in therapy is private and protected by law. We coordinate with a bishop only if you ask us to and sign a written release — never automatically. You decide what, if anything, is shared.
When Coordination Helps
Some clients find that a therapist and ecclesiastical leader working in concert — each in their own lane — reduces confusion and supports steadier progress. Learn more in our guide to faith-sensitive therapy, or about the clinical side in our sex addiction therapy overview.
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Educational information, not a substitute for clinical or ecclesiastical counsel. Therapy Utah does not speak for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Source: Captari et al. (2018), Journal of Clinical Psychology.