Growth versus Premier Features for Christian Counselors

Growth and Premier solve different jobs for an independent Christian counselor. Choose Growth when your immediate need is a public directory profile and a way to receive introduction requests. Choose Premier Individual when one counselor also wants Find Faith Therapy's appointment and practice tools. Choose Premier Practice when several counselors need those tools with shared administration and separate permissions. Use the worksheet below to name the work you would actually move into the platform.

A directory request is not a booked appointment, and neither plan guarantees inquiries, placement, clients, fit, or counseling outcomes. Counselors supply their own profile information and remain responsible for their services, fees, appointments, records, and scope.

See what each plan covers

• Growth: A public counselor profile, directory visibility, introduction requests, sharing tools, profile guidance, and reporting. This may be enough when you already use other systems for appointments, forms, records, and payments.
• Premier Individual: Growth benefits for one counselor, plus scheduling, Google Calendar and Meet connections, a counselee portal, forms, counselor-authored notes, messages, and payments through the counselor's connected Stripe account. Access to a feature does not complete its connection or setup. See how Premier scheduling works if appointments are your deciding task.
• Premier Practice: The Premier tools for each subscribed counselor, with practice invitations, team permissions, and shared administration. Each counselor using Premier needs a counselor subscription. A non-counseling administrator does not need a separate counselor subscription or gain the right to act as a counselor. Practice setup, two-factor authentication, and the applicable practice agreement are separate steps.

These are plan capabilities, not a promise that every tool is ready as soon as you pay. Google and Stripe connections require their own authorization. A church or organization referral affiliation is different from team access; paying for a subscription or referring an adult does not grant access to private counseling records. Check the current Plans and Pricing page for the full plan terms.

Fill out a five-step workflow card

For each step, note your current tool; whether it works; the Find Faith Therapy feature you would use now; required setup or permission; and one open question. Keep real counselee details out of this planning card.

1. Discovery and introductions. Do you need a public counselor profile and a place to receive requests? Who will check the profile for accuracy and respond? Growth and Premier both cover this step.
2. Appointments and meetings. Are scheduling and meeting links already working elsewhere? If you would move them, who will connect Google Calendar and Meet, confirm availability, and check a sample booking? This is a Premier task. An introduction request alone does not reserve a time.
3. Forms, records, and messages. Which administrative tasks would you actually use in a counselee portal? What stays in your current system, and who would be allowed to see records? These tools are in Premier; avoid duplicating records without a clear workflow.
4. Session payments. Do you need to administer counselor-set payments through a connected Stripe account? Who will complete that connection and review processing charges? A subscription and a counselee's session payment are separate costs.
5. People and permissions. Is this one counselor's workflow or a practice with multiple named counselors? List who pays for each counselor subscription and which administrative role each person needs. Referral affiliation alone is not practice membership or private-record permission.

If you need a broader inventory before choosing any practice software, use the one-week practice software task audit. This card focuses on which Find Faith Therapy plan matches the tasks you have identified.

Make the plan decision

• Choose Growth as a starting point when discovery and introduction requests are the only platform tasks you need now, and your existing appointment and administration tools meet your needs.
• Consider Premier Individual when one counselor has identified a specific scheduling, portal, records, messaging, or connected-payment task to use and is ready to complete its setup.
• Consider Premier Practice when multiple counselors need Premier tools and the practice has worked out its invitations, separate record permissions, and who will pay for each counselor subscription.
• Pause the upgrade decision when a required connection, permission, or record workflow is still unclear. Resolve that question before assuming a feature will replace an existing process.

Hypothetical example: A solo counselor already has a scheduler and record system that work well. She wants an accurate public profile and a way to review new introduction requests. Her workflow card has no Premier task she intends to use yet, so Growth is the closer match. If she later decides to manage appointments and forms here, she can review Premier Individual and test the required setup before moving that work.

Check the commitment before checkout

Read the current Plans and Pricing details for monthly or upfront annual charges, any eligible trial, and the amount due. Premier includes Growth benefits once for the same counselor; it does not require a second Growth subscription. A practice can pay for counselors, have counselors pay individually, or use a mix. A purchased but unassigned practice subscription may still be billed. An eligible NCCA discount depends on each named counselor's current-year verification; one member's card does not discount every seat. Existing subscribers may have accepted prices and terms that differ from new-customer rates.

Choose based on the tasks and permissions you can put into use, then confirm the actual checkout terms. Find Faith Therapy provides directory and software tools; independent counselors provide counseling and decide how to run their practices.

AI assistance disclosure: This article was prepared with AI assistance for general platform information. It is not counseling, diagnosis, treatment, crisis care, or a substitute for reviewing your own practice obligations.