Dr. Richard Winter

Professor Emeritus of Counseling

Dr. Richard Winter grew up in England and trained in medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London and then in psychiatry in Bristol. He is a past-member for The Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK.

He was also a counselor, teacher, and leader at the English L’Abri and associate pastor of a church in Hampshire for some years before moving to the United States in 1992 to head the counseling program at Covenant Seminary. Recently as Professor Emeritus, he moved back to live near his family in England and continues some counseling and teaching.

Dr. Winter’s research interests have been at the interface of psychology, medicine, and theology. For  more than ten years he has travelled to Europe to teach at the European Leadership Forum and until recently was an advisory board member of the American Bible Society’s Trauma Healing Institute.

He is the author of Choose Life: A Christian Perspective on Abortion and Embryo Experimentation (out of print); The Roots of Sorrow: Reflections on Depression and Hope (2001); Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment: Rediscovering Passion and Wonder (2002); Perfecting Ourselves to Death: The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism (2005); and When Life Goes Dark: Finding Hope in the Midst of Depression (2012). He continues therapy privately and with the Global Counseling Network.

Dr. Winter and his wife, Jane, have four children and eleven grandchildren.

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