You wake up and respond to the day. Things happen and reactions occur. Rinse and repeat. If you are like many people, your life feels more like a series of reactions than decisions.

Hi. I’m Ken Knoechel, LPC, your licensed therapist and certified life coach and founder of Desirable Mind.

Through graduate training in Clinical Mental Health and Chemical Dependency along with years working in psychiatric settings, I’ve trained my eye to notice what’s going on behind behavior. The attachment styles, cognitive distortions, and emotional regulatory systems that are running behind the scenes of your life.

While I also welcome anyone who wants to design a better life, clients who work with me are usually Christians who find themselves overwhelmed, stressed out, or reacting to relationships and other life events. They know there’s something more going on…something more to know and understand. They’re exactly right. Your psychology and your faith both explain the same inner workings of your mind through different lenses. When those lenses align, your whole world becomes clear.

The way God created your mind is ingeniously brilliant. When you understand how it really works (how your childhood experiences influence your emotions, how your thought life dictates your beliefs, how your fight or flight system determines your safety) you can begin to change it. Transformation happens when you understand the foundational organizing principles underneath the behaviors you want to change, and then learn how reorganize how you shape perception.

You can learn to stop reacting to life’s stimulus and start crafting your life by design. Understanding what’s driving your reactions is the first step.

I’ll teach you those systems with clinical accuracy, walk you through why you developed these patterns, and equip you with a straightforward path to move forward. The Bible and Psychology can harmonize together like they were created to.

Ready to go from reacting to creating? Click the button below. Let’s chat.