We believe that God is the healer of His children. As counselors, we are privileged to assist Him in ministering to the needs of His children. Christian counselors also understand the role of sin, guilt and shame in a person's life. We appreciate what God will do to turn lives, marriages, relationships and families around through His grace and power. We are willing to bring the truth of Christ to a person's problems and needs.

Counseling is an interactive process. It is established and maintained on the basis of trust. Open and honest dialogue between a counselor and a counselee is the most important component of building trust. If you cannot establish this foundation early on, so that you are confident that the counselor will be wise, biblical, loving, and faithful in your interaction, you may need to look elsewhere.

First, counseling is best when done in the context of a personal relationship, something that is impossible in cyberspace. Secondly, counseling should be done in a church context with the accountability that the church context offers, and again, that's impossible in this format. In addition, the anonymity that the internet offers is not conducive to real growth, nor would we be able to give you good advice, knowing only the information that you give me in this shortened format.

First, biblical counseling recognizes that believers and nonbelievers cannot be counseled in the same way. We cannot use Scriptures to counsel a nonbeliever who has not been bound to its authority. Indeed, counselees cannot and will not respond to truth if their blinded spiritual eyes are not opened by God. As Paul says, "But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

SAGE GOALS Life Coaching is concrete, goal-oriented, results focused, short term coaching that is designed to help you reach your goals. This work is designed to get you moving. We talk about feelings, but are more focused on helping you continually move forward in reaching your dreams and goals, and overcoming the obstacles to them, whatever they may be.

Let us clarify first what we mean by counseling methodology. A counseling methodology is a system of theoretical commitments, principles, goals, and appropriate methods. It is a set of interconnected things; it is not a collection of random and eclectic bits of observation or technique. A counseling methodology is an organized, committed way of understanding and tackling people's problems.

Christian discipleship is the process of passing the truths of God's Word that one has learned and applied on to another believer (2 Tim. 2:2). It takes time. It may involve the investment of years of teaching, training, encouraging, and rebuking. The goal during this process is to help the disciplee grow to maturity in Christ, to walk consistently according to God's Word.

The Bible speaks of God's grace in the good news of Jesus Christ. When Jesus opened the minds of His disciples to understand the Scriptures, He explained to them the things concerning Himself. The Bible is about Jesus Christ the Savior and Lord; therefore, biblical counseling is about Jesus Christ the Savior and Lord. When Jesus opened the minds of His disciples to understand the Scriptures, He spoke of repentance, the forgiveness of sins, and making disciples.

Dichotomy teaches that people are composed of two distinct elements, body and soul. The body represents everything material, while the soul represents everything immaterial. In this case, the terms soul and spirit are understood as viewing the immaterial aspect of human nature from different vantage points. That is, the numerical essence of soul and spirit is one.

The question can be answered in two parts: first, what theological commitments are involved, and second, what theological issues are not involved. Generally speaking, the biblical counselor seeks to affirm the fundamental doctrines of the faith in the tradition of the Protestant Reformation. Specifically, three doctrinal commitments are foundational to biblical counseling. The first commitment is to the authority and sufficiency of Scripture.

Legalism is a term that is frequently tossed around without much thought to its meaning. Essentially, legalism means to attain spirituality by means of what one does or does not do. In legalism someone establishes an external standard of spirituality and then judges everyone by that standard. Since the individual has established the standard, normally that person always achieves it.

Music therapy is an experiential, task, activity-oriented intervention, which is particularly appropriate for those clients who do not traditionally respond to verbal interventions. Such interventions may also enhance the effectiveness of verbal-based therapies provided by other members of an interdisciplinary treatment team.

Life coaching deals with the present and future. It does not examine the past but instead creates your future. Many of my clients have found the coaching I provide to be therapeutic, but it is not therapy. Counseling and psychotherapy usually deal with problems and healing. It entails working with the past as well as the present. Also, life coaching is not considered a mental health service per se and is therefore not covered by health insurance.

Debt consolidation or credit counseling is a more traditional debt reduction option, which lowers your interest rates, monthly payments, and fees, but does not directly reduce the amount you owe. However, debt consolidation can help you get out of debt faster by lowering your interest rates and helping you pay more each month towards the amount you owe, and pay less in interest.

In psychotherapy it is assumed that there is a problem so that the client needs healing from some emotional problem or wound. The psychotherapist is seen as a source of healing and the goal is to make the client well and healthy. In coaching, on the other hand, the client is seen as being a healthy and whole person who can actively partner with the coach in seeking ways to grow and move forward with his/her life.

Coaching assumes that the entrepreneur or business leader is an expert when it comes to their business. The coach???s role is to help the client clarify what they really want and then develop strategies and skills ??" based on each client???s unique personality and style - to achieve their goals, quickly. A consultant provides expert advice and knowledge on specific issues or situations.

While coaching and counseling are very different from each other, they are often compared to each other, or mistaken for the same service. In counseling, a therapist or other mental health professional is perceived as an expert who is working to diagnose or treat a particular problem or issue. In coaching, the “client” is perceived as a complete and whole individual with their own brilliant solutions.

We don't give you any advice. You'll find your own answers as you play the interactive games and drills. Unlike counseling, we have 27 hours over four short days to work with you. The program is intense enough to keep you in the moment so that you are ready and willing to address the issues as they come up. Most counselors that have attended the Boot Camp say that our four day program is equivalent to a minimum of two years worth of therapy.

Life Coaching is not counseling. Counseling focuses on the past and overcoming its disruptive and painful influences. Coaching is about the future. It focuses on vision, discovery, and growth.

There are many differences. Distance Counseling may be more convenient for clients. While telecounseling takes place in real time and does depend on "making an appointment", traveling and related formalities do not present obstacles. Asynchronous counseling communications via secure email adds even greater flexibility.

counseling session. Pastoral counseling addresses most of the same issues as secular counseling, but there are differences. One main difference is that pastoral counseling is a ministry. Pastoral counselors are representatives of one or more faith communities and as such serves as a channel through with the care of communities is offered to those in need of help. Pastoral counseling’s identity comes out its affiliation with a faith community.

We believe our ministry is different in that we also use community as a healing agent. Many wounded people have not learned how to bond with others. They have had very poor relational skills (too clingy, too distant, unable to share themselves with others, unable to receive, unable to trust, etc.) In community, situations occur where bonding is a necessary part of the healing process. Each person receives a prayer partner, an accountability partner, and a mentor, plus a prayer counselor.

Classic marriage counseling focuses on finding problems in order to fix them. Unfortunately, this approach has not worked for marriage in the last 40 years. The Marriage Lifeline has a completely different focus. We want to show you what’s right about the two of you, how you’re motivated differently and why that’s good, not bad. We never get into “who said what to whom” and we never dredge up the past or attempt to place blame.

First, let me say that coaching deals with whole people, and whole people have emotions. Emotional aspects of a person are witnessed, just as an athletic coach would surely be with the athelete who has experienced a setback. But the focus does not remain on the emotional experience; it moves back to the vision and goals, and the actions that will yield the desired results.

Generally, "counseling" covers the wider range of services we provide, so we call our walk-in clinic a "counseling clinic." For example, some students come for career counseling and don't expect or wish to talk about other problems or personal difficulties. We respect that. But some students come knowing that they want therapy for some issue—perhaps depression or anxiety. Such ongoing counseling is generally called psychotherapy or just therapy.

Counseling and psychotherapy are focused on analyzing or finding the reason behind a problem. Some therapists believe that in order to make life changes, the client must understand why they are behaving in a certain way. Coaching is focused on creating a future based on where the client stands in the present. It concentrates on tracking patterns of language and behavior. Coaches then work with those patterns so that the client can make useful changes in their lives.

Often people ask what makes pastoral counseling different than other therapy. One answer is that we encourage the whole person in our work: body, mind, and spirit. We do not operate only on the medical model of illness and pathology. Sometimes our problems and challenges are physical and often mental, but many times they are spiritual. Pastoral counseling is a unique form of psychotherapy which uses spiritual resources as well as psychological understanding for healing and growth.

The differences, which can be substantial, are covered in Dr. Sanford's article, "Relationship Coaching or Counseling?" Our program is change. If change is what you want, you will definitely get it here. Expect to be trying out new behavior from the first coaching session. The program teaches essential skills and provides a vehicle for practicing them.