Beth's Background:

Beth Toler, M.Div., Th.D., LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, educator, and ordained minister with more than 20 years of experience across clinical, academic, and ministerial settings. Her work integrates psychotherapy, theology, and spirituality, with a holistic approach grounded in family systems therapy, trauma-informed care, and spiritually integrated practice. Beth brings clinical expertise and deep listening to her teaching, emphasizing compassionate presence, thoughtful engagement, and the role of meaning-making in healing and growth.

Beth completed her doctoral studies and clinical training at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology and began her private practice in 2010. She has since practiced in Georgia and Pennsylvania, currently offering virtual therapy across both states and in-person services in the Greater Philadelphia area. Her professional experience includes work in parishes, hospitals, universities, psychiatric facilities, and recovery centers, as well as over fifteen years in private practice with individuals, couples, and families. She also serves as a graduate-level professor, teaches counseling and pastoral care in seminaries and counseling programs nationwide, and has held leadership roles including Clinical Coordinator for CACREP-accredited programs.

Beth holds a Doctor of Theology from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, a Master of Divinity from Duke University Divinity School, and a Bachelor of Arts from Mercer University. Ordained in the American Baptist Churches, USA, she continues to bridge ministry, clinic, and classroom in her work. She serves on the Psychotherapy Commission of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and is President of the Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling. Her writing and research focus on the methodological and practical implications of integrating religion and spirituality into the counseling process, supporting learners in developing thoughtful, ethically grounded approaches to psychotherapy.

Content & Course Format:

The SIP training program is a multi-disciplinary, inter-spiritual, multi-racial community of persons gathered for education, connection, and formation in the work of spiritually integrated psychotherapy. It serves licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals (i.e., counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, pastoral counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, addiction specialists, and more), as well as graduate students in any of those disciplines who seek to explore the ways spirituality, religion, and the search for meaning influence their own lives and the lives of their clients.

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