The Journey of A Christian Counselor
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I remember at his birth my looking up at his father in the delivery room as my body was racked with pain and saying, “I am not going to be able to handle this.” The pain of his entry was just as horrific as the pain of his departure. He was my only son and the youngest of two children. So child bearing was no new thing for me, but this delivery was far more difficult and painful than the first child. What I could not have known was that three decades later a pain more horrific than before would revisit me and with the same words spoken to his father, “I can’t handle this.” This time there were no nurses, doctors or a sterile room just the pain of the murder of my only son and my memories of his journey with me.
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About the Book
The Journey of a Christian Counselor is written for the individual who feels drawn by the Holy Spirit to counsel, with or without formal training in the profession. It is a story within a story, a chronology of the spiritual and professional journey of a young woman searching for the meaning of a vision that she saw at the birth of her son. This vision changed her life, but it was not until the brutal death of her son that she gained the courage to release the vision and accept its purpose in her life.
About the Author
The author is a professional counselor with more than twenty years of experience and an advanced degree in counseling. She is a counselor educator and practitioner. When working with clients, she integrates biblical principles into theories and practices of psychology to facilitate emotional healing, spiritual growth and to strengthen their faith.
Challenged by personal tragedies, she had to self-administer the biblical and psychological principles that she share with clients to recover. The most challenging tragedy was the brutal murder of her only son. It forced her to press through the pain of this loss and search Scriptures even deeper to recover and to find a good in such an evil thing.
The author is the founder of the National Christian Counseling Institute, a nonprofit training organization. She has returned to private practice and is forever grateful for the healing virtue of the Holy Spirit and loving relationships. She has a daughter, a loving son-in-law and their two children and her son’s children.