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Is Biblical Counseling Even Legal?

What’s Up with That Title!? That’s some title, huh! Provocative. I crafted my title to parallel an equally provocative title from a recent ACBC podcast.ACBC: “Is Informed Therapy Even Legal?” In a March 16, 2026, ACBC Truth in Love Podcast (Podcast 559), Dale Johnson and Ed Wilde sought to ask and answer the question,“Is Informed Therapy Even Legal?” If you read or listen to the podcast, you’ll quickly discover that they are actually asking,“Is Clinically-Informed Biblical Counseling Even Legal?