Counseling
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| What is Biblical Counseling? |
| Resolve Ministries Biblical Counseling Center |
There are three general categories of counseling:
1.) Traditional psychological counseling
2.) Integrated Christian counseling
3.) Biblical counseling
Traditional psychological counselors make an earnest
attempt to help hurting people find wholeness as they use
over 200 different, sometimes conflicting, psychological
approaches for diagnosis and treatment. Psychological
counselors will select from Freud, Jung or Adler’s differing
approach to psychoanalysis, Skinner’s behavior modification
school, Rogerian reflection, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs,
or other psychological approaches. Some will even mix and
match differing psychological models as they attempt to
assist those in need. It is important to note, however, not
only were these well-known psychologists and psychiatrists
not Christians, but in many cases their moral foundations
and approach to the human condition were the antithesis of
Biblical thinking.
Integrated Christian Counseling attempts to integrate
Christian principles and terms into the plethora of
psychological approaches,often leaving the counselee just as
confused and in need as they were before counseling.
Biblical Counseling is founded on the premise that God, as
Creator, is the only One who has the answers to man’s
brokenness and that His solutions are more effective than
those devised by man (Colossians 2:1-10). In fact, the
solutions for man’s brokenness and guidance into a full,
abundant life are found only in Scripture (2 Timothy 3:16 &
17). The Biblical Counselor’s dependence on God’s Holy
Spirit, prayer and use of Scripture as the guide makes
Biblical counseling distinctively different from the other
approaches and extremely effective.
1.) Traditional psychological counseling
2.) Integrated Christian counseling
3.) Biblical counseling
Traditional psychological counselors make an earnest
attempt to help hurting people find wholeness as they use
over 200 different, sometimes conflicting, psychological
approaches for diagnosis and treatment. Psychological
counselors will select from Freud, Jung or Adler’s differing
approach to psychoanalysis, Skinner’s behavior modification
school, Rogerian reflection, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs,
or other psychological approaches. Some will even mix and
match differing psychological models as they attempt to
assist those in need. It is important to note, however, not
only were these well-known psychologists and psychiatrists
not Christians, but in many cases their moral foundations
and approach to the human condition were the antithesis of
Biblical thinking.
Integrated Christian Counseling attempts to integrate
Christian principles and terms into the plethora of
psychological approaches,often leaving the counselee just as
confused and in need as they were before counseling.
Biblical Counseling is founded on the premise that God, as
Creator, is the only One who has the answers to man’s
brokenness and that His solutions are more effective than
those devised by man (Colossians 2:1-10). In fact, the
solutions for man’s brokenness and guidance into a full,
abundant life are found only in Scripture (2 Timothy 3:16 &
17). The Biblical Counselor’s dependence on God’s Holy
Spirit, prayer and use of Scripture as the guide makes
Biblical counseling distinctively different from the other
approaches and extremely effective.
