Brian Griswold
Brian Griswold comes to Safe Harbor Christian Counseling with 24 years of pastoral experience. He has a Masters in Pastoral Counseling from Loyola University in Baltimore, a BS degree in Elementary Education from Southern Connecticut State University, four units of Clinical Pastoral Education while at Hasbro Children's Hospital and Hospice of Rhode Island. He also has a three-year Bible diploma from Zion Bible College, Providence, RI.
Being a Children’s Pastor gave Brian experience with children, family and couples and it was Loyola’s strong clinical emphasis that has given him the opportunity to integrate the spiritual with the clinical in counseling couples, families, and children.
Two years ago, Brian co-started Celebrate Recovery, a Christ centered 12-step recovery program at Trinity in Lutherville on Monday nights and now co-leads and pastors a community of 90 or so individuals celebrating their recovery. He is also a mentor for men struggling with sexual addiction who are seeking sexual sobriety and purity.
With a theoretical orientation towards Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and a Christ centered spirituality, Brian works with relationships in crisis, substance abuse, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, anger management.
Brian currently works in the Bel Air, and Rosedale Maryland, offices.