Essential Counseling Concepts and Skills for Christians

By Dr. Merrian Taylor Campbell

Liberating ourselves from anything and anyone that hinders our growth and development allows us to rid ourselves of negative toxic feelings and experience healing and wholeness. The author believes that God is an integral part of the counseling experience.

10/19/20
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I’ve been working on this book for several years. I decided to publish it to give back to those who: (1) may not have studied pastoral care and counseling in academia, and (2) who desire to enhance their knowledge and skill of pastoral care and counseling. I’m a Christian counselor whose ministry is one of healing. In seeking healing and wholeness, I believe that we must take responsibility for our own lives, so that we can grow into our fullest potential and become all that God created us to become. I believe that God is an integral part of the counseling process and I am a vessel used by God to help others explore the issues in their lives that hinder them from making wise choices, living righteously, being their best self, and living their best life. As a spiritual midwife, I become an enlightened witness to the story of the client and my challenge becomes that of consciously and consistently viewing the client as a child of God who is being molded by God. In this book, readers will learn the concepts and skills of pastoral care and counseling, the importance of stories and oral tradition, terminology specific to the field, the necessity of documentation, and information to include on counseling forms.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Nov 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664209947

Dr. Merrian Taylor Campbell

Rev. Dr. Meriann Taylor Campbell is a Pastoral Psychotherapist and ordained Protestant Minister who specializes in trauma, women’s issues, resilience, and healing. She utilizes solution-focused therapy techniques and trusts God to do the healing. 10/19/20 Dr. Meriann Taylor Campbell is an ordained Protestant Minister and Pastoral Psychotherapist who counsels individuals, couples, and families. She was educated at the University of Michigan-Flint, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute, and New York Theological Seminary. She is a Diplomate in the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. She enjoys spending time with family, friends, her husband, and their mixed-breed beagle dog. She lives in Michigan.

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WestBow Press rev. date: 11/20/2020

CONTENTS

Sermon: Transformed By God

Introduction

1. Personal Faith and Theology

2. Storytelling and Story Listening

3. Problems in Counseling

4. Counseling Concepts & Terminology

5. Counseling Skills

6. Scriptures for the Counselor

7. Documentation & Information For Sample Counseling Forms

Bibliography

Endnotes

About the Author

SERMON:

TRANSFORMED BY GOD

Romans 12:2

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. (NLT)

People who seek counseling do so because they need help. They want to change something in their lives. They desire to better understand themselves and/or others. The Biblical text addresses the issue of being tempted to copy the behaviors and customs of others. Instead of yielding to this temptation, the Bible instructs us to let God transform the way we think. If we want to change, we have already done a self-assessment and made a decision to better ourselves. God desires that his way be revealed to us through his word. He desires to be made known to us. He wants us to desire his will and his ways. We are to read the Word and listen for God because the Word has the power to