Mind Doctoring

Would u largely trust a doctor?
Would they need to be explicitely Christian 4 u 2 put urself in their hands?
Or maybe u'd put urself in God's hands... and trust a doctor - Christian or otherwise?
I expect nobody would doubt that a Christian Doctor would be just dandy but we rarely would insist on that...especially if we get rushed to hospital with a major issue.

It seems strange to me now that we will happily trust a doctor to help us with matters of the physical yet will not think likewise with matters of the mind.

It's as though THIS part is spiritual and the only people qualified to help us here need to be Pastors or prayerful fellow Christians. I have no problems with such folk incidentally apart from a nagging realisation that actually these people are often not particularly trained in how THE MIND works but for a laymans experience. Now this can be gr8. They may have indeed picked up a vast knowledge through experience and the Holy Spirits guidance. But it can also be very limited.

What I'm getting at is the alarming way we can often shy from Mind Therapies because of a fear that they tread on holy ground and might mess us up? Part of the reason could be that it's currently a jungle in this field with all sorts of alternatives and little centralised guidance. I imagine medicine used to be much the same (not that we all even agree with modern medicine!). But there is also a religious stronghold here that with words unspoken views such things towards witchcraft. And so God's people go on in suffering without methods of "renewing their minds" and the enemy gleefully shouts on - "burn them heretics".

After my recent delvings into NLP I'm glad to have found some other ways of thinking and reconfiguring my thinking - taking thoughts captive, understanding more deeply how "as a man thinks so he is" and the importance of thinking on things good, pure and great etc (to paraphrase a few scriptures!)
NLP and similar therapies are not Salvation. They are not life's ultimate answer & meaning. They are not our creator. But (like what we now call "medicine") these principles are awesome in their "life saving and healing" results. Thank you for them Big Guy!