Counselor Guide on: Financial Problems
What are the Different Types of Financial Problems? The inability (normally due to a lack of knowledge) to manage one’s finances in a manner adequately enough to sustain a moderate Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Counseling
Counselor Guide on: Sex Issues
What are the Different Types of Sex Issues? The inability to perform, and/or discomfort. Emotional trauma resulting from sexual activity. The unwillingness to participate. The use of sex as a Continue Reading →
Counselor Guide on: Forgiveness
What is Forgiveness? Type A – This is where you decide in your mind that you have forgiven someone else for what they have done to you. This is only a Continue Reading →
Counselor Guide on: Depression
What is Depression? Physiological Depression – Said to be caused without any external trigger whatsoever. Every facet of our behavior is controlled by the balance of chemicals and hormones present Continue Reading →
Counselor Guide on: Communication Issues
What are the Different Types of Communication Issues? Unclear expectations. Unfair expectations. Immaturity on either or both parts. Issues of trust, security, and/or dependability. What are the Correct Responses? For Continue Reading →
Counselor Guide on: Adultery, Infidelity, or an Affair?
What’s the Difference? Infidelity is breaking a promise to remain faithful to a sexual partner. That promise can take many forms, from marriage vows sanctified by the state to privately Continue Reading →
Counselor Guide on: Abuse
What is Abuse? Physical Abuse – The use of violence in the interaction between people. Physical Abuse includes, but is not limited to, rape, assaults, pushing, shoving, hitting, slapping, pinching, Continue Reading →
8 Things Which Should Be Real in a Christian Counselor’s Life
Christian counselors should be people who live what they preach. The one trait that gets people to trust their counselor is that they believe the counselor counsels in the way Continue Reading →
The Use and Study of Valid Reasoning
Four types of logic: Informal logic (logical reasoning) is the study of natural language arguments. Formal logic is the study of inference with purely formal content. Symbolic logic is the Continue Reading →
Perception
IT’S NOT WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE WHEN YOU’RE DOING WHAT YOU’RE DOING, IT’S WHAT YOU’RE DOING WHEN YOU’RE DOING WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE YOU’RE DOING. The “truth” is often clouded Continue Reading →
How To Read (Study) The Bible
HAVE A REASON AND/OR PURPOSE FOR READING 1. Read with a purpose; have an objective in mind. Decide why you are reading the Word that day or time period. The Continue Reading →
Are You Preaching or Training?
Self-Discipline TRAIN UP To “train” someone: “to give the discipline and instruction, drill, practice, etc., designed to impart proficiency or efficiency.1” Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way Continue Reading →
Success In Counseling
In one of my training classes, a man asked me what he would have to do to become a successful counselor. I started to answer in one way, but after Continue Reading →
Spiritual Warfare in Counseling
“Warfare” in Counseling? Spiritual “Warfare,” as such, and Christian counseling are mostly synonymous. Spiritual warfare has at its core the intent to conquer the works of the enemy, and Christian Continue Reading →
The Power of Prayer in Christian Counseling
Biblical Principles Christian counseling is about applying the principles in God’s Word to the circumstances and situations presented by the clients. There are certain things which are known about most Continue Reading →
Change The Way You Think, And You Change The Way You live
Romans 12:2 (NASB) “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God Continue Reading →
Belief Therapy
As A Christian Therapeutic Treatment Modality Dr. Paul Carlin, who was a Scripturologist not a psychologist, introduced Belief Therapy to the public in November 1997. The modality was developed during Continue Reading →
Psalm 23
The 23rd Psalm is a useful outline of the things we can learn about how God wants pastors to treat His people. He is the Shepherd, and we are His Continue Reading →
What We Can Learn From Sheep
(or How To Be a Better Pastor) Too many words confuse sheep. The shepherd learns the language that his sheep will recognize, then he uses that language to guide Continue Reading →
Pre-Marital Counseling Format
Introduction The purpose of this course is to acquaint the counselor with the tools used in pre-marital counseling. This course is intended to be used as a stepping stone to Continue Reading →