Natalie’s Books

Dr. Natalie Ford is a Licensed Professional Counselor who teaches psychology at a local university. She strives to help others to find hope in God’s sovereignty and in God’s Word. Having lost her first husband to suicide, Natalie seeks to use her professional knowledge and her personal experience to help others faced with difficult circumstances with the necessary tools to cope. You’ll find evidence of her faith, her journey, and her expertise in all of her books.

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Seeking Answers, Finding Peace: Loving and Losing Someone with Mental Illness

“You are a sorry excuse for a wife. I don’t know why I put up with you.”

Natalie’s heart broke. What was happening to the kind, compassionate man she had married?

Several years into their marriage, Natalie’s husband, Michael transformed into a different person. Plagued with depression, he struggled to regain his normally cheerful and effervescent personality. After the depression came terrifying fits of rage and frenzied behavior that Michael couldn’t control, and Natalie was helpless to understand. Unfortunately, Michael’s bipolar disorder eventually led to his suicide.

Throughout the years that followed, Natalie sought answers and instead found peace – peace that surpasses understanding. 

Natalie eventually remarried and unfortunately suicide was no longer stuck in the past. Her husband, Jeff’s mom took her own life after her own struggles with mental illness.

In Seeking Answers, Finding Peace, Natalie details the tribulations of dealing with the mental illness of a loved one. Debunking stigma and presenting practical advice, she offers hope to readers whose loved ones have dealt with mental illness or suicide.

What People are Saying

“In her courageous, uplifting, and informative book, Natalie Ford shares how she survived the death of a loved one by suicide through her deep faith.  In addition, she educates with easy-to-understand explanations of bipolar illness, depression, and mental health issues while combining mental illness with God’s unfailing love. I highly recommend this compelling book, Seeking Answers, Finding Peace, as a guide for navigating the uncharted waters of mental health issues while keeping one’s faith intact.”
— Virginia Pillars
“I recommend Seeking Answers, Finding Peace to anyone who is walking through someone experiencing a season of grief or even in a toxic relationship.”
— Kimberly
“Dr. Ford’s book, Seeking Answers, Finding Peace: Loving and Losing a Loved One with Mental Illness, breaks down these barriers and encourages the believer who is struggling and the one who may be helping a loved one through the struggle. Dr. Ford brings to light her own struggle loving someone dearly with a mental illness while serving in the church… Dr. Ford’s new edition to her book serves to breakdown barriers in the church and reduce stigma that exists within the church towards mental illness…”
— Sarah McClanahan, DO, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry OU-Tulsa SCM

Grace-Based Counseling: An Effective New Biblical Model

“You speak God’s truth when you counsel. But do you also communicate His grace?”

The Christian counselor or pastor plays an important role in helping people process the trauma they’ve experienced. Too often, a client leaves the counselor’s office with feelings of guilt and shame. They feel the heavy burden of what they did wrong. But somehow, they’ve missed the grace of God that makes things right again.

A counseling model that stays true to a biblical worldview will overflow with grace… not cheap grace, but real grace that acknowledges sin while offering a hopeful path to redemption and healing. In Grace-Based Counseling, professional counselors Richard Fowler and Natalie Ford offer a model that blends the truths of Scripture, the science of psychology, and the everlasting hope of the gospel. In this book you will find:

  • New, grace-based counseling model
  • Detailed application of the model, with case studies
  • Practical toolbox with surveys, assessments, and counseling helps

A Christian counseling model can’t just be about admonishment. That approach only leads to shame and human efforts that are doomed to fail. But when the gospel is brought to bear in the counseling relationship, real life change is possible. Then the counselor becomes an instrument of divine grace in the hands of a faithful God.

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What People are Saying

“Grace-Based Counseling not only gives an effective model and toolbox to counsel with wisdom, empathy, and grace, but also counsels the counselor, helping these dedicated individuals to come to each session fully prepared emotionally, mentally, and spiritually – for the crucial work they do.”
— Mike Buster, Executive Pastor, Prestonwood Church, Plano, TX
“In Grace-Based Counseling, Rick and Natalie have offered up a gold mine of resources that are biblical, transferable, practical and transformative.”
— Bob Reccord, founder and chairman of Total Life Impact Ministries
“In searching for a good book on Biblically-sound counseling, I found plenty. But when I read this one, I realized I found an indispensable one. Early in the work, the authors address integrity of the counselor and their character before moving on to that of the counselee. This work edifies the counselor firstly, and then offers extremely practical methods to Biblically relieve the counselee of their ailments. I highly recommend this book and encourage the reader to take the G.R.A.C.E. method to heart!”
— Amazon Reviewer
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Tears to Joy: Finding Hope in the Presence of Bipolar Disorder and Suicide

Contact me to order the first edition of Tears to Joy. Limited quantities available.

Tears to Joy helps readers to:

  • Eradicate guilt and shame associated with mental illness or suicide
  • Find hope in times of suffering
  • Practically assist loved ones who are struggling with mental illness or who have lost someone to suicide
  • Understand what the Bible teaches about depression and suicide