Use these resources to grow in your counselor skills.
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Good Questions
A good biblical counselor asks open ended questions that reveal the heart’s desires. Grow in you understanding and use of “what” and “how” questions to dig deeper into the heart.
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Fundamentals
Discouraged that a counselee isn’t growing? Wondering why there is no progress? Is your counseling as Biblical as you think? Use these artricles to evaluate your counseling.
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Homework
Remind yourself about what makes good homework for growth during the week. Are you including all the components that will best aid the counselee in sanctification.
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Hope and Love
Does your counselee receive love and encouragement from you? Do they leave your session feeling hopeful in the God who loves them and changes them?
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Common Scriptures
While all of God’s word is useful for teaching, correcting, rebuking, and training in righteousness, these are some. you will want to commit to memory.
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From Start to End
Begin with the end in mind. As you start a counseling case, think through where you want to end and plan how to accomplish that goal. Here’s a look at three stages of counseling.
Helping Counselees Find Idols
At the heart of biblical counseling is uprooting idols in the heart. We know from Scripture that man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart. Learn to help your counselee identify and repent of their idols and love and treasure Christ more.
Mock Counseling - Role Playing
When teaching new counselors how to counsel, it is helpful to model counseling sessions for them. The counseling scripts offer a “mock counseling” that can be acted out for a group of new counselors. Ahead of time, hand out the case studies and get prospective counselors thinking about how they would address the presenting issue. Help them think through God’s attributes, teh gospel, and what scriptures and diagrams would be helpful to discuss with the counselee. These types of exercises help newer counselors move from book knowledge of how to counsel by challenging them to think like a counselor.
