The Spirit Is In The Room is about Angela’s journey of self discovery to incorporate Christianity and creativity into trauma focused therapy. Using Eye Movement Destination and Reprocessing (EMDR) as the primary therapy tool, Angela describes best practices and novel techniques to mix and match accepted therapeutic models in a collaborative way with clients to treat trauma and achieve positive results. 

Blending Christianity, systems therapy, addiction counseling and art therapy into the EMDR process, Angela describes how to integrate multiple frameworks into one coherent but highly adaptable therapy process to navigate even the most challenging and confusing therapy cases. Using this approach, she describes on more than one occasion how she collaborated with clients to ask Jesus to provide safety in the therapy process and listened to the Holy Spirit to overcome barriers to the treatment process. Throughout the book, powerful and pivotal moments are described from the perspective of the therapist who witnessed when the Holy Spirit was clearly in the therapy room. 

This book is intended to reach multiple audiences; active therapists, individuals currently in the therapy process, aspiring mental health professionals, individuals contemplating therapy and fellow Christians. Experience the gift that God has given to Angela, hear her first hand account of the challenges she overcame and be encouraged by the deep knowledge she shares in a very practical and tangible way.