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should you so choose, I'm here to help.
My mission is to help,
whether you're a Christian or not, as long as you're open to a
Biblically consistent cognitive-behavioral approach to
problem
resolution. This is my mission, and so I diligently work to find practical ways to help others deal with problems.
For
a lot of people, the problems are anger, or grief, or depression, or
stress, or anxiety, or fear, or panic, or dread, or worry, such as
result from health problems, or relations with others, or a habit,
e.g., an addiction to a substance or to a behavior.
For a lot of
people, the problem is a behavior that's naturally embarrassing,
something one wants to keep secret. This could include
adultery
or fornication, including pornography, or chat-room sex, or phone sex,
or an impure thought life, or masturbation. --Let us remember
here that God's infallible word tells us: "No temptation has overtaken
you but such as is common to man...(I Corinthians 10:13 NASB).
Should
you be wondering now what, in a nutshell, I believe, I'm glad to tell
you. I believe that the original text of the Bible
is the
inerrant word of God; that Jesus Christ is God made flesh; that He was
conceived and born of the virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit; that
He was crucified so that sins of all who repent and come to Him are
forgiven; that He arose from the dead on the third day; that He
ascended into heaven; that He will come again to judge the living and
the dead. I believe that salvation is the work of
God, not
of us, that salvation is by grace, through God-given faith in Jesus
Christ.
I am licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia as a professional
counselor and as a marriage & family therapist. I am
board-certified to practice as a substance abuse counselor.
I hold a master's degree in counseling from Liberty
University,
have done graduate work in communications at Regent University.
I
taught social studies at Southside Community College, have served as a
supervisor for licensure by the Commonwealth of Virginia;
have
been a workshop leader for alcohol/drug addiction counselors. I'm a charter member of the Association of Biblical
Counselors;
was a charter member of the National Association of Christian
Counselors. I'm a past member of the National Board of
Certified
Counselors and the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Counselors.
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