Meet Our Staff:

Professional Experience
Barbara L. Klika, MSW, LCSW

1992-present: Owner/therapist for Still Waters, Inc. of Green Bay. Specializing in professional mental health treatment provided within a Judeo-Christian worldview.

1987-1992: Private practice group, Family Life and Growth, S.C., Green Bay. Quality Assurance Director and Therapist.

1986: Program Director: Developed Challenge--AODA treatment program for adolescents and families, residential and outpatient--Programs, Green Bay, WI

1976-1992: Medical, AODA, EAP and psychiatric social work experience in several hospitals, private agencies and county mental health facilities in Northeastern Wisconsin.

1978-1983: Developed community organizations to deal with domestic violence in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties.

1987-1988: Adjunct Professor--Sociology of Marriage and Family at UW-Green Bay, WI.

Education

1977: received BA sociology/Music at Southwest State University, Marshall, MN

1983: received MSW at UW-Milwaukee

1995: Certified Bethel Bible Study Teacher

Continuing education in the areas of anxiety and depression, addictions-substance abuse, attachment and bonding, sexual and eating disorders, trauma resolution, personality disorders, communication and conflict management skills, treating infidelity, marital, psychoneuroimmuniology, gerontology, brain function in memory and aging, integration of religion and psychology, spiritual warfare, New Age and occultism, Spiritual gifts, Theophostic prayer and healing, personal life coaching.

Many Christians worry that if
they have DEPRESSION there is something
wrong with their FAITH.

Are you one of them?

• Have you wondered if feeling discouraged means you are failing God?
• Does taking medication mean my faith is weak?
• Shouldn't Christians who have received the Holy Spirit be protected from depression?
• Do you feel the need to look "perfect" while your friends seem so high in their faith and you feel so depressed?
• Do Christians choose to be depressed or are they being tested by God?
• How do you reconcile unkind or dishonest behavior from those who claim the title of Christian?
• Why do Christians feel so uncomfortable acknowledging depression?
• Does Hebrews 10:26 bother you and seem like a condemnation for one in depression?
• How do I help a friend or relative who is both a Christian Believer and struggling with depression?

After collecting real questions that Christians have, I put my faith and years of counseling and coaching experience to work to respond to these heart cries in a written format. My goal was to provide sound basic information and then address these questions in a conversational style, as though I was sitting together with the questioner.