ABOUT COUNSELING
WE PROVIDE A MINISTRY OF COUNSELING CARE AND SUPPORT FOR INDIVIDUALS AND COUPLES
WHAT IS OUR APPROACH TO BIBLICAL, PASTORAL, CHRISTIAN COUNSELING?
We provide the ministry of faith-based supportive care, biblical coaching, Christian living discipleship, comfort for the wounded heart, and compassionate guidance without coercion. These services are offered to members of the body of Christ and the local community who are struggling to experience:
A real relationship with God and a life full of confident hope and joy in Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:17-19),
Transformative freedom from sin (Galatians 2:20, 5:16-24),
Restorative healing from painful experiences (Matthew 11:28-29, Psalm 30),
The fullness and qualities of abundant life promised to Christians (John 10:10, Colossians 3:8-17),
The ability to be content and full of peace in any circumstance (Philippians 4:11-13, John 14:27, Romans 8:18),
demonstrated through healthy and thriving interpersonal relationships, beliefs, feelings, behaviors, spiritual growth, self-worth, and identity , marked by a life of purpose and peace.
We do not provide professional, licensed, clinical counseling, mental health care services, psychotherapy, psychological treatment, or diagnosis. This ministry of pastoral care, biblical coaching, and Christian discipleship is not covered by insurance or funds from HSA accounts and does not address issues of mental illness. Member Care services are provided as a ministry of the local church to fellow brothers and sisters in Christ around the world.
IT IS VERY EASY TO GET STARTED.
Just fill out the form to request counseling.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PHILOSOPHY OF CHRISTIAN MINISTRY OF
BIBLICALLY-GROUNDED, GOD-HONORING COUNSELING
Our counseling ministry consists of listening to you, talking together, and being a safe place of comfort, understanding, compassion, guidance, insight, and discipleship, as you share your struggles, thoughts, and feelings. We utilize a variety of God-honoring methods, strategies, and techniques to help you address the various issues, struggles, and goals that you may bring into this process.
Counseling sessions focus on the specific issues and goals of those we serve. We offer prayer and address Scripture and theology within our counseling sessions whenever this is desired, beneficial, and relevant to the issues and goals being discussed. Some types of struggles are best addressed with practical strategies that can help you gain more self-control and peace in your thoughts, feelings, and actions, and which help you to identify and meditate on what is good and true, root out false beliefs, and experience contentment in any and every situation. In all cases, we only draw upon Biblically sound, God-honoring models of care.
Our theoretical framework and method of counseling generally aligns with the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation Model of Care, utilizes techniques from the Peace Pursuit model of Biblical discipleship and conflict resolution, and reflects protestant theological doctrine, as expressed by East Maryville Baptist Church. Our counseling services honor God’s commands to mourn with those who mourn, bear one another’s burdens, pursue knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, seek and offer wise counsel, and to be strengthened by the wise guidance of counselors.
Lighthouse Counseling Ministry does not endorse an approach that presumes all struggles are a simple matter of sin and all solutions are achieved through repentance or agreement with biblical truths. We allow space for those we serve to struggle with doubt, uncertainty, and faith issues without attempting to manipulate or coerce you to reach a pre-determined outcome that we believe is best for you. We believe in the Holy Spirit and the Holy Word, and believe They are fully sufficient to reveal truth, conviction, correction, direction, peace, purpose, and freedom in Christ. Our approach is to facilitate opportunities for those we serve to gain insight, perspective, understanding, knowledge, to challenge assumptions, identify solutions that weren’t previously accessible, and experience the fullness of the fruit of the Spirit in your life and relationships.