About Dr. Karl Benzio

Welcome

I am a Christian psychiatrist who is also board certified. My passion is integrating cutting-edge psychiatric science with Biblical truths. With over 35 years in the field, I have developed key insights to help you renew your mind by becoming consistent Godly decision-makers. One of my God-given callings is to re-ignite the Behavioral Health Revolution Jesus started to combat the behavioral health pandemic of anxiety, depression, addiction, and suicide. God allowed me to combine my passion & calling to start a unique Christian residential treatment facility, Honey Lake Clinic. We are able to integrate spirit, mind, body with depth in all three spheres to bring a psychospiritual healing that is truly life-transforming.

Get to Know Dr. Karl

My professional activities as a psychiatrist are very unique. Just as Jesus empowered my comeback story. I want everyone to know how to access & infuse God’s power into their own healing & transformation journey. God has blessed me with a variety of missional opportunities, I currently serve as: Chief Psychiatric Officer of Honey Lake Clinic & the Medical Director of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC). In addition to those roles, I teach, speak, write, perform media interviews, and testify against un-biblical social policy issues. I also serve many churches and ministries including the Christian Medical and Dental Association, Focus on the Family, American Academy of Medical Ethics, the Mental Health Collective, Liberty University, and many others. I’ve been married to my best friend since 1991, Martine. We have 3 daughters and one granddaughter. I love Jesus, family, the Jersey Shore, all things sports especially pickleball, ice cream, and hate when Satan wins any battle.

Karl’s 4 Primary Missional Passions

Dr. Karl’s passion to help people blended with his unique expertise of integrating spirit, mind, & body flow into these 4 Primary Missional Goals:

Equip Christians to understand & utilize psychological science from a Biblical worldview to live out their God-given potential with Peace, Joy, Freedom!

Equip non-Christians to understand Biblical principles from a psychological-science-informed view to access God’s unlimited psychospiritual healing in all spheres: spirit, mind,   body.

Revolutionize the Behavioral Healthcare system so excellent Bible-based, Jesus-centered, psychiatric care is the standard for our society. Real psychospiritual healing is understood, pursued, and easily accessed to reignite the Behavioral Health Revolution Jesus started.

Train behavioral health providers regarding faith-informed decision-making sciences to meet the growing demand for psychological services needed to renew minds and transform lives, thus revolutionizing our society.

Excerpt from My eBook:
Practical NeuroTheology

Why I’m a Psychiatrist

The Church’s dismissive view of science, especially psychiatric science, although it initially frustrated me, has actually been one of my significant motivators. You see, I am a very curious person, always wondering “why” and asking questions. Ever since I can remember, I wondered how God designed our physical body and our psychological mind. Because I was bullied for my bad stutter, I was always in my head having to think about what word I would start a sentence with to minimize my stammering and stutter. At age 5, God laid ‘decision-making’ on my heart. That’s all I ever wanted to be (other than a pro athlete), a person that understood decision-making and helped others have a better life by being better decision-makers. So even when close relatives discouraged me from pursuing psychiatry, saying it was “psychoheresy”, I followed my dream to be a doctor/scientist, receiving a Bachelors in Science (BSE) in Biomedical Engineering focusing on central nervous system imaging, a Medical Degree (MD), and a board certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology to be a full-fledged psychiatrist. Obviously, I love science and see God as the generator and designer of all good science. In order for me and my patients to understand and interpret all science more easily, I came up with a simple definition that I know will help you engage and apply psychiatric science with greater comfort as we overcome this science vs. faith struggle.

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Message of Hope from Dr. Karl

Using my psychiatric expertise, I empower people to not just read God’s Instruction Manual, but to consistently apply it every day, regardless of circumstances. I’m really excited about the spark I see in the person’s eye whenever I pull back the curtain to reveal that our mind is not as complex, mysterious, and overwhelming as we are deceived into thinking it is.

People tell me they struggle making healthy decisions leading to frustration, confusion, insecurity, anxiety, sadness, disconnection, hurt, and many other uncomfortable emotions. I often feel sad because my expertise is decision-making sciences.

I learned very early in life that decisions determine our life. God, our designer, lovingly gave us the best decision-making textbook called the B.I.B.L.E. – Best Instruction Book for Living Everyday. God desires that we use His book to steward the psychological apparatus He designed in us, our mind.