Abstract
This article considers the implications of nonreductive physicalism for counseling. A discussion of the secular and religious meanings of soul in contemporary culture is followed by several critiques of the assertion that human nature should be understood from a unified, monistic, psychosomatic point of view. After proposing definitions for spiritual capacity, religion, and faith, a model for embodied spiritual counseling that includes a place for soul is suggested. Nonreductive physicalism need not polar- ize counselors into those who contend, on the one hand, that only physical remedies or medication will help troubled people and those, on the other hand, who contend that appeal to a spiritual substance called soul is needed.
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