Tony Birkhead
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What is Coaching?
Coaching is a guided process and partnership that helps you move from confusion to clarity, from brokenness to wholeness, and from feeling stuck to taking meaningful next steps toward healing, growth, and purpose. Through honest conversations, practical tools, and focused support, coaching helps uncover patterns, strengthen truth, and create lasting change.
Author . Speaker . Life Coach
Board Certified Mental Health Coach
"I help people reframe pain, rediscover purpose, and rebuild their lives through coaching, speaking, and stories that point to hope."
About Tony
A certified mental health coach, life coach, and public speaker, he is passionate about helping individuals move from confusion to clarity, from brokenness to wholeness, and from striving to living fully in God’s grace and freedom. Through Spirit-led coaching and practical tools, he helps people see God’s truth, believe His promises, and become who He created them to be.
For thirty-five years, Tony has walked alongside those seeking lasting change. What he enjoys most is when they discover or rediscover purpose and motivation in their lives and begin living in the purpose they were designed for. He graduated from Bible College with a degree in biblical ministry and has become certified as a Biblical and Pastoral Counselor, a Professional Life Coach, and a Board Certified Mental Health Coach.
Tony lives in Fletcher, NC (Western North Carolina), with his wife, Missy. He’s passionate about spoiling his grandkids, and in his spare time, he and Missy enjoy riding bikes and hanging out with family and friends. They are blessed with two children—Thomas and his wife Kayla, and Regan and her husband Cory—and five grandchildren.
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Author of:
Searching for the Goodness of God
How to Reclaim your Faith After you've been Shaken by Hurt, Loss, and Disappointment.
What Are People Saying ?
"Tony Birkhead writes with compassionate directness, offering practical guidance that helps readers keep moving when life doesn’t make sense."
- Anne Beiler
Founder of Auntie Anne's Pretzels
“For anyone who has ever loved God deeply, still found themselves asking hard questions, and is just exhausted from trying to “be fine,” this book offers language, permission, and a steadiness that feels rare.
Searching for the Goodness of God is not a book that explains suffering away but instead teaches you how to stand inside it without losing your faith, your honesty, or your hope. This book repeatedly validates your struggle—without leaving you stuck to suffer on your own. The message is consistent: when you can’t see, you don’t shut down... you search for God’s heart instead.”
– Evan Owens
Executive Director, REBOOT Recovery
“Tony Birkhead is the kind of pastor whose authenticity and vulnerability gives the rest of us permission to ask questions in our confusion, get honest in our pain, and voice anger in our prayers. Through the wisdom and experience of Tony’s struggles and suffering, we observe a man wrestling with his belief and with his God. Like Jacob, he reveals both the limp and the blessing that comes from a life of hard-fought faith.”
– John Eklund, LCSW
Founder, Recovery Alive
“Tony Birkhead is a pastor's pastor who has given me an example of how to walk through grief, pain, anger, and frustration while maintaining an authentic, Christian life. I’ve watched him hold onto the truth in the toughest times and the best of times. His life is an example of authenticity, transparency, and faith. I’m beyond grateful for his mentorship in my life. I’m a better Christian, pastor, and human being because of our friendship.”
– Jeff Stultz, CPSS
Founder, Broken Chains JC
Founder, Motorcycle Missionary
“This book speaks to the silent places: The disappointment you never processed; the grief you buried in the name of faith; the pain you learned to carry while still showing up to serve.
If you have ever questioned God’s Goodness because of what you’ve walked through, loved God deeply but felt emotionally exhausted, or longed for healing that goes deeper than behavior and belief…This book is for you.”
– Keisha Wright
Founder, Emotional Recovery Clinic
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