The church is on the front lines of mental and emotional health care — often without the tools to respond well.
Pastors encounter men struggling with sexual brokenness, families fractured by unprocessed wounds, leaders who cannot name what they feel, and congregants who have been told to pray harder when what they needed was someone who understood both Scripture and the human person.
Dr. Ruel Tyer brings clinical training and biblical depth together in a way that is accessible, practical, and genuinely useful for local churches. These offerings are not one-size-fits-all content — they are developed from years of counseling practice, pastoral engagement, and the conviction that all human understanding can be held within the light of Scripture.
What We Offer
Talks, Trainings & Groups for Your Church
The Molding and Shaping of Masculinity
Who is shaping the men in your church — God's Word, or the culture? Drawing from 40+ years of sociological research on gender and masculinity alongside a robust biblical framework, this talk challenges men to examine whose words have formed them and what it means to pursue godly manhood with intention. Men leave with greater self-awareness and a clearer path forward.
How to Biblically View Our Emotions
Most people relate to their emotions in one of two unhealthy ways — either they are controlled by them, or they suppress them. This talk offers a third way, rooted in Scripture and supported by current research in attachment theory and emotion science. Framed within the biblical narrative of Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration, participants learn to bring their emotional lives honestly before God.
Mental Health Through a Biblical Lens
Christians are often shaped more by a Western cultural view of mental health than a biblical one — treating suffering as something to escape, and emotions as either weakness or absolute truth. This workshop directly challenges that framework, developing a robust biblical theology of mental and emotional health that equips participants to care for themselves and others with greater wisdom and compassion.
Counseling & Coaching: A Biblical Process
What does it look like to care for people through a counseling and coaching lens that is grounded in Scripture and informed by the best of clinical practice? This half-day class — developed for Riverstone Church's School of Ministry — walks participants through the framework, methodology, and practical approach used at OneDay, including teaching, small group discussion, and case study work.
Unwanted: A Men's Group on Sexual Purity
Sexual brokenness is one of the most silenced struggles in the church — and the standard "lust management" response has left men more ashamed and more stuck. This 12-session facilitated group takes a fundamentally different approach: rather than declaring war on desire, it invites men to understand their sexual brokenness as a convergence of their past story, their wounds, and the spiritual assault on their dignity as image bearers of God. Real freedom begins with curiosity, not condemnation.
Month 2 — Why do I stay here? Core experiences, hijackers of the soul, patterns of protection
Month 3 — What does freedom look like? Restoration, identity, moving forward
A Christian Perspective of IFS: Integration & Practice
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is one of the most widely used therapeutic models today — and it integrates remarkably well with a Christian understanding of the human person. This training provides a thorough biblical framework for understanding parts, protectors, exiles, and the Self, and equips participants to bring IFS language into clinical and pastoral care settings with theological clarity.
Integrating Christianity & IFS: Bringing Jesus into the Inner System
The follow-on to Part 1, this training moves from framework to practice. Participants learn how to target protective parts, draw them out, and invite Jesus to engage and unburden parts in session. The training addresses the unique discipleship dimension of IFS-informed Christian care — how to lead clients toward Christ rather than merely symptom relief — and includes guided practice exercises throughout.
Who This Is For
Is This Right for Your Church or Organization?
Our Approach
Clinically trained. Biblically based.
We believe that all human discovery and understanding — including the best of psychology, neuroscience, and clinical research — can be understood through the lens of Scripture. We hold clinical training and biblical faithfulness together, not in tension.
Our work draws from the Integration model of biblical counseling, narrative therapy, Internal Family Systems, and attachment theory — always returning to Scripture as the authoritative guide. We are not simply presenting information. We are inviting churches into a process of formation.
Bring Dr. Tyer to Your Church
Reach out to inquire about availability or schedule a brief call to discuss which offering might best serve your congregation or organization.