Julie Lowe

Julie Lowe served at CCEF for over 20 years in various capacities, including as a faculty member and counselor. She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a registered play therapist supervisor and she holds a master of arts in counseling from Biblical Theological Seminary. Julie has extensive training and experience with marriage, women’s issues, sexual abuse, body image issues, parenting, and child maltreatment issues. She is trained in leading mandated reporter trainings and provides numerous trainings and consultations on child sexual abuse. She has published numerous books, including Child Proof (New Growth Press, 2018), Building Bridges (New Growth Press, 2020), and Safeguards (New Growth Press, 2022).

Blog posts written by Julie Lowe

Julie Lowe

Blog posts written by Julie Lowe

Not Brave

It’s Not Fair!

Why We Must Teach Kids Safety Skills

Inviting God into the Hard Places

Broken Hallelujahs

The Danger of Comparison

For Pastors: A New Perspective on Referring Out

Choosing What Is Hard

Do You Desire the Gift More than the Giver?

Ministering to Young People Requires a Different Approach

4 Principles for Talking to Your Kids about Sex

Seeing Foster Parents as Local Missionaries

Of Oceans, Thimbles, and Talking to Your Kids About Death

Drawing Closer to Your Kids During a Pandemic (Part 2)

Drawing Closer to Your Kids During a Pandemic (Part 1)

What Kind of Parent Are You?

A Fragrant Offering

Left to Their Own Devices

#MeToo…(& #ChurchToo)

Five Ways to Help Protect Your Kids from Sexual Abuse

Brokenness

Unwanted Gifts

Teens and Body Image

Rebuilding Parental Authority

13 Reasons Why: Season 2

When Violence Touches a Child’s Life

Young People and the Dangerous Trend of Vaping

Young Teens and Social Media

Instilling Gratitude in Your Family

Nurturing Family

Sexuality: God Creates; the World Corrupts

When Children Say “I’m Bored”

13 Reasons Why…

The God Who Sees When We Cannot

Braille and the God who sees

For Those Who Fail Every Day

Parenting a difficult child

“Shattered assumptions”

Bullying: An interview with Julie Lowe

An alternative to micromanaging your children

Role-playing: A creative parenting tool

Keeping Up Appearances

Pastoral Wisdom and the Mandate to Report Abuse

Practice makes permanent

Tragedy and Trauma

The danger of “fast food” conversation

When a Child Says “I Don’t Know”

Books written by Julie Lowe

Safeguards: Shielding Our Homes and Equipping Our Kids

Teens and Suicide: Recognizing the Signs and Sharing Hope

Building Bridges: Biblical Counseling Activities for Children and Teens

Child Proof: Parenting by Faith, Not Formula

Helping Your Anxious Child: What to Do When Worries Get Big

Videos featuring Julie Lowe

How can I overcome my insecurities about how I look physically?

How can I help my teen who is in an unhelpful friend group?

What should I do when I’m the only one trying to improve our struggling marriage?

I struggle with sexual intimacy in marriage because of my past sexual abuse. What can I do?

How can I wisely parent my highly emotional and sensitive child?

How do I parent my child with extreme behavioral issues that likely stem from attachment trauma?

What do we do as parents when our child breaks our hearts?

How do I deal with the constant anxiety that my children will reject Christ?

How do I navigate difficult relationships at home during lockdown?

What should I do with my persistent guilt that I’m not doing enough as a parent?

How do I make sense of God’s promises of protection when bad things happen in my life?

How do you help those whose anxious fears have been realized?

Why does social media seem to create such anxiety in teenagers?

Next Steps: Writing Projects

Family Stories – Adoption

How might I start a counseling session with a child?

How do I talk to my kids about sex? (part 2)

How do I talk to my kids about sex? (part 1)

How do we think biblically about cosmetic surgery?

How to talk to my kids about adoption?

Teaching kids about sex and personal safety

How do I deal with the grief of failed adoption and infertility?

How do I parent a child who doesn’t seem to be changing?

How can the church minister to victims of sexual abuse?