Also by this author: Understanding Spiritual Abuse: What It Is and How to Respond, Spiritual Abuse Recovery Workbook: Engaging Faith in Healing, Counseling Through the Storm: A Guide to Treating Crisis and Trauma
Published by Harvest House Publishers on May 12, 2026
Genres: Healthcare, Non-Fiction, Christian Life
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A Practical, Clinical, and Biblical Approach to Managing Anxiety
You may feel exhausted from restless nights and worry-filled days. Perhaps you are feeling relentless tension in your body. Maybe you are suffering from fear or panic that is making your world smaller and smaller.
Through both her clinical work and her personal experiences with anxiety, licensed professional counselor Karen Roudkovski has been there. But she has also seen and experienced firsthand how curiosity and care can transform your relationship with anxiety. Bringing together clinical, personal, and biblical insights, Karen helps you
tune in with your body to put space between you and your thoughts and feelings
replace patterns of anxiety-avoidance with faith-engaged curiosity
embody resilience and experience safety in your body
apply straightforward tools and practices to reduce anxiety symptoms in the moment
choose coping behaviors that nurture and nourish to help subdue anxiety long-termReframing Anxiety equips you to approach anxiety with curiosity, compassion, and confidence, helping you glorify God, in whom you have been fearfully and wonderfully made.
Christians who struggle with anxiety will appreciate this book’s helpful perspective. Author Karen Roudkovski has dealt with anxiety struggles herself, and she is a licensed counselor and counseling professor. This book is full of insights for understanding where anxiety comes from, how to cope with it, and how to reconcile it with your faith, especially if you are in a church environment that equates all anxiety struggles to sin. The author also provides helpful differentiation between anxiety, fear, and worry.
Reframing Anxiety has a broad scope, and it explores the physical and mental components of anxiety, various causes of anxiety, what the Bible says about the subject, and how this mental health struggle relates to other issues, such as trauma and grief. At the end, Roudkovski focuses on practical tips for managing anxiety, through changing both your beliefs and behaviors. She offers practical insights throughout the whole book, but brings it all together in the final section. I especially valued the repeated message about not avoiding the things that make you feel anxious, since avoiding them only makes the anxiety worse. This is counter-intuitive for most people, so I appreciated the author’s strong emphasis on this.
I appreciate how well the author wove together clinical insights with teachings from Scripture. She encourages readers to recognize that God designed our bodies with a fear response to help keep us safe. She assures the reader that feeling fear or anxiety isn’t inherently sinful, but she also acknowledges the reality of sin, writing with a holistic sense of the human condition. Christians who find secular mental health resources inadequate or frustrating will appreciate this faith-focused guide.
Reframing Anxiety: A Counselor’s Guide to Finding Peace Through Curiosity is a thorough, encouraging guide for Christians who struggle with various forms of anxiety. Because the book has such a broad focus, it may not be the best fit for people who know exactly what form of anxiety they suffer from and would benefit from a deep dive into their sub-type. However, this is an excellent overview for people who want a big picture look at what anxiety is and how to deal with it. I would recommend this book to anxiety sufferers, and to people who want to better understand and help them.