Center for Biblical Counseling

Dr. Tom Petit, Ph.D., is a nationally board certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor as well as a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor and State Qualified Counseling Supervisor As a former college instructor, Dr. Petit currently serves as a visiting professor at Reformed Theological Seminary. During his twenty years of private practice, Dr. Petit has developed a unique model that gives individuals, couples, and families practical help for living according to their God-intended design. Counseling focuses on redeeming the years spent chasing counterfeit fulfillment with the aim of living out God's original design and personal plan for each person's life.

Through his affiliation with Florida Detox, Dr. Petit offers short-term outpatient intensive and long-term follow-up counseling, addressing the personal and spiritual aspects of an addiction. His model of counseling provides Christ-centered spiritual direction for a new path for living addiction-free.

As a certified IDAK Career Assessment Counselor, Dr. Petit also provides a testing service for clients seeking to identify their natural God-given talents and fitted careers. The IDAK test blends interests, values, experiences and personality traits to identify natural talents and provide suggestions for career options.

He is the founder and director of the Center for Biblical Counseling, St. Petersburg, Florida, where he offers individual, couple and family counseling. Dr. Petit, and his wife of nearly 25 years, Ruthie Petit, M.A., also a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, offer seminars on marriage and parenting and individually speak on various relationship-related topics.

Dr. Petit received his doctorate from the University of South Florida-Tampa in Counselor Education, his Masters in Counseling from Grace Theological Seminary, and his bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois-Urbana. His professional memberships also include the American Association for Christian Counselors, the American Mental Health Counselors Association and the Florida Mental Health Counselors Association.