Stephen Longley is an outpatient clinician who appreciates spiritual and religious (RS) diversity. He works with clients holistically from biopsychosocial and spiritual perspectives and integrates spirituality into psychotherapy in an ethically appropriate way. Within a therapeutic process, Stephen helps clients learn how their personal spiritual and religious struggles impact their personal histories and their presenting issues. Stephen also assists clients to develop and organize RS language and concepts so they might talk more effectively about their spiritual and religious beliefs and experiences and how they impact their psychological functioning and well-being.
The topic of religion and spirituality and its relevance to mental health has been the focus of numerous recent clinical research studies. As noted in a national survey by Oxhandler, Pargament, Pearce, Vieten, and Moffatt (2021) descriptive analyses indicated that most clients view RS as both supportive and relevant to their mental health. In the aforementioned study, 64% of respondents agreed that “engaging in religious/spiritual practices (e.g. prayer, religious services, reading religious texts) improves my mental health.” Moreover, 62% of respondents disagreed that “their mental health problems are the result of an RS struggle” reinforcing the importance of RS as relevant a~````````to mental health.
Background
Steve is a graduate of the Princeton Theological Seminary with a Master’s in Divinity (MDiv), and a graduate of Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work, having earned a Master’s in Social Work (MSW). Steve is a rostered clinician in both New Jersey and Vermont and a practicing Protestant minister. Steve is certified by the ACPE as a Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapist (SIP) and currently working against certifications in Bowen Family Systems and EMDR trauma therapy.
Prior to making a second-career pivot into spiritually integrated psychotherapy, Steve held senior management positions, domestically and internationally, at the Leo Burnett Company, McCann-Erickson Worldwide, and Omnicom.
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