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Please Note - While we are a faith based practice, we respect your decision to choose non-faith based services. This means that while we will pray for you on our own time, we will not pray with you unless you are comfortable with that. While our foundation for guiding you morally and ethically stems from biblical principal, we respect your decision to not be evangelized during sessions.
Biblical Counseling Defined
"Biblical Counselors believe that the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is not only the turning point of human history but also has supreme relevance for people's lives today. Jesus is alive, reigning now in heaven, interceding for his people, offering real-time help through his Spirit -- and biblical counselors habitually consider who Jesus is because we have faith that he speaks pointedly and intimately to all aspects of human experience. The Bible speaks to our joys, sorrows sins, hopes, fears, and desires, and we endeavor to handle God's Word with deft and skill, to handle it in a way that spurs people toward greater trust, obedience, and worship of God, no matter what they are facing. To do this, we consider together God's good words; we discern together what wisdom like in light of God's good words. We explore how we, as followers of Christ, can bring the vivaciousness and verve of his counsel into how we live our everyday lives."
The Biblically Counseling Process is Personal
"The word process sounds stiff and wooden. But the process is personal because biblical counseling endeavors to connect the person of Christ to the person we are meeting with. In revealing himself to us, by making his invisibility visible (Colossians 1:15), God has been personal with us. He wants us to know him as he is. He wants us to receive him into our lives and to be in communion with him. And so we can anticipate that he will be personal with our counselees. God comes to each of us personally -- stands at the door and knocks again and again, repeatedly, daily over a lifetime. He always sees our needs, always knows our hearts, always lives to provide for us. And His Word a living and active Word -- speaks personally. How will his living Word direct and guide as he draws near to our counselors in their struggles? ...The Lord does this in an up-close and personal way.
"As God speaks and ministers to us, he invites us to make ourselves known to him, just as he has made himself known to us. And herein we fin one goal of our counseling. Any kind of counseling aims to help people grow in self-understanding ---a valid endeavor -- but biblical counseling also encourages people to take what hey have come to understand about themselves and share it with their God. Counseling conversations help people better know their hearts and pour out their hearts to God. (Psalm 62:8) We want to help people connect personally with God to no only pray but to know what it is to dwell in the shelter of the One in whom they live, move, and have their being" (Acts 17:28). -A Biblical Counseling Process, by Lauren Whitman
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