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Brenda Stewart is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 30+ years of pastoral counseling.
Brenda received a master’s degree in Counseling at Concordia University, Irvine at the Townsend Institute. She also completed a master’s degree in ministry at Corbon Graduate School in Salem, Oregon, her master’s in Divinity at Tozer Seminary in Redding California, and a Doctor of Ministry in Redemptive Organizational Leadership at Gordon Conwell Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Combining her education and life experience, she offers a unique blend of high-quality professional counseling integrated with faith-based principles. She uses this approach to improve the spiritual, emotional, and psychological well-being of her clients and to facilitate genuine and healthy interactions with the client’s relationships and life challenges.
Brenda has a passion for marriage and family health, blended families, parenting children and teens, and young adults. Brenda has been married for 30+ years and she has raised four children of her own with her husband and understands family systems.
She also has a special affinity for church staff and ministry leaders since she has been a pastor’s wife for 30+ years with extensive Christian ministry experience and has been a licensed pastor herself for eight years. She understands the pressure, isolation, and stress of ministry that ministry leaders experience and is certified in leadership coaching.
If you are experiencing marriage and relationship struggles, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, life transitions, career transitions, and leadership challenges, she would love to walk beside you and help in these areas. She specializes in spiritual direction and integration of the whole person: mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical.
I am licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist for the state of California. Although I see clients in person in Encinitas, California, I am able to see clients using video conferencing throughout the state of California.
