Masters in Making

About Masters in Making

This podcast is intended for students in and alumni of the School of Counseling program at Colorado Christian University, and is designed to supplement your coursework as well as your interaction with faculty, staff, and your peers as you progress through the program. Our hope in this podcast is to help you on your own spiritual journey as you navigate your own life with God throughout these coming years in the counseling program while you are training to become, as CCU President Hogue has said, "competent, courageous, and convicted" counselor. Throughout this podcast, we will be discussing topics related to Christian spirituality and Christian integration, the intersection of counseling psychology and Christian theology and Biblical worldview. You will have opportunity to hear from the faculty and staff at CCU, as well as other experts in the counseling world, as we offer some of our stories and wisdom from our work within the mental health counseling field, as well as share about our own journeys with God along the way – our fumbles and foibles, as well as our service and successes, and the gracious fathering of God as we stumble after Him. We are a community of professionals, seeking to offer competent, ethical, and informed counseling to our communities. We are also a community of believers, of followers after the God who has inaugurated His Kingdom through the coming, the death, the resurrection, and the promised return of the Lord Jesus Christ. Empowered by His Spirit, we seek together to walk with Him in our profession and our respective roles in offering Spirit-led, Christ-anchored, and character-driven help to those we serve. This is the heart behind our efforts here in this Podcast, to invite you, dear listener, to sit at the table with us as we explore our work in the light of Christ's work on our behalf.

Publisher

Dr. Brian Fidler

Category

health & fitness · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Sept 2023

Latest episode

15 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 27 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   27: Drs. Michelle Harrison, Becky Taylor, Crystal Brashear, and Brian Fidler Kick Off a New Podcast Season

   Drs. Michelle Harrison, Becky Taylor, Crystal Brashear, and Brian Fidler launch a new season discussing student growth, embracing new ventures, and divine guidance in counseling.

2. 

   24 Mar 2026

   Series 3 Episode 7: Dr. Sharon Todd, Dr. Claudia Seth, and Dr. Beth Robinson Discuss the School Counseling Program and Profession

   In this episode, Dr. Brian Fidler is joined by Dr. Sharon Todd, Dr. Beth Robinson, and Dr. Claudia Seth for a fascinating conversation on calling, formation, and the integration of faith within the work of school counseling. Together, they explore the path of working with students and school systems, considering how moments of discernment, personal story, and professional development their sense of vocation. Throughout the conversation, they reflect on the distinctive role of the school counselor as one who moves within complex systems—attending not only to individual student needs, but to the relational, developmental, and institutional contexts that shape those needs. You will hear the professors share their attentiveness to the presence of God within their careers and their shared conviction that school counseling provides opportunity to shape students and institutions in a profound way. They offer a passionate vision of school counseling as a means of walking with God, a way to care for students' academic, emotional, and familial lives. For more information about Colorado Christian University's School of Counseling and to connect with an enrollment counselor, click here. More on Dr. Sharon Todd can be found on her CCU Faculty Spotlight. More on Dr. Claudia Seth can be found on her CCU Faculty Spotlight. More on Dr. Beth Robinson can be found on her CCU Faculty Spotlight. More on Dr. Brian Fidler can be found on his CCU Faculty Spotlight. Hosted by Dr. Brian Fidler Produced by Matthew Bray Nimeth and Dr. Brian Fidler, in collaboration with CCU's School of Counseling.

3. 

   17 Feb 2026

   Series 3 Episode 6: Dr. Beth Robinson & Dr. Mark Mayfield Discuss Being Seen, Heard, and Known

   In this episode, Dr. Mark Mayfield and Dr. Brian Robinson invite us into a thoughtful conversation about loneliness, presence, being seen, and the sacred work of counseling. Bothreflects on how the absence of being known—not merely the absence of people—shapes much of the suffering people experience and that counselors encounter in practice and training. Together, they explore how this conviction informs the counseling profession as well as the formation of students who are learning not just clinical techniques, but how to offer themselves as an attuned, human connection in a fragmented world. For more information about Colorado Christian University's School of Counseling and to connect with an enrollment counselor, click here. More on Dr. Beth Robinson can be found on her CCU Faculty Spotlight. More on Dr. Mark Mayfield can be found on his CCU Faculty Spotlight. More on Dr. Brian Fidler can be found on his CCU Faculty Spotlight. Hosted by Dr. Brian Fidler Produced by Matthew Bray Nimeth and Dr. Brian Fidler, in collaboration with CCU's School of Counseling.

Inside a recent episode

27: Drs. Michelle Harrison, Becky Taylor, Crystal Brashear, and Brian Fidler Kick Off a New Podcast Season

Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] My mama is a retired public school teacher, but the whole time I was growing up, she was an art teacher. And so all summer long, we got our hands dirty and all kinds of things. And that was, those are some of my best memories. And when I realized for the first time that those two worlds could converge, it was super exciting for me. And so I love all of that. And keep I try to keep growing in that area to the use of creativity and counseling. Right now, I'm super interested in the idea of self trust, that is captivated me. And that that more than self esteem, certainly self compassion, but also self trust, like, It's like for a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

30 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 29 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

30

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71