Addressing religion and spirituality in psychotherapy: clients’ perspectivesFootnote1

1. Sarah Knox and Lynn Catlin, Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, School of Education, Marquette University. Margaret Casper, Terros, Incorporated, Phoenix, AZ. Lewis Z. Schlosser, Department of Counseling and Personnel Services, University of Maryland. Lewis Schlosser is now at the Department of Professional Psychology and Family Therapy, Seton Hall University.

We gratefully thank our participants in this study. We also thank Peggy Barott, Julie Bentzler, Angela Bryant, Paula Filtz, Shannon Gill, Dione Gisch, Nicole Hamilton, Tyson Kuch, Sara Murray, and Nicole Wheatley for their assistance with transcription. Finally, we thank Timothy Davis, Clara Hill, and Stacey Holmes for their comments on an earlier draft of this article.

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