The identity issue of Christian counseling is about the way in which the properties of "Christian-ness" apply to the every step of counseling process in terms of methodological construction. That is, it is a matter of what makes Christian counseling "Christian." The author proposes that the method of theology should consist in the methodological interactions with psychological methods in Christian counseling. Two important modes of theology bring to the fore in the clinical context: i.e., professed/doctrinal theology and operational theology. While professed theology remains in client's cognitive confession, operational theology works on client's life as a whole, including unconscious experiences -- i.e., the implicit theology by which the client lives. Noting the psychological understandings of clinical methods such as Object Relations Theories and REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy), it is argued that operational theology in clinical context uncovers mental representations of God, ultimate belief system, and the so-called "idol" -- psychic false gods who usurp God's place at the center of one's self and relational life. The article concludes that the identity of Christian counseling is the taking on of the gods in the methodological encounters between theology and psychology. It is to confront psychic God images which masquerade as God, and to witness the transformative work of God brought into the operation of client's psychic idol.