Biblical Counseling is looking at the “heart”. Deuteronomy 30:6, Romans 28-29, Matthew 15:18-23, Romans 2:15, Luke 6:45, Jeremiah 17:9-10.  Biblical counseling looks at where God is in your story while capturing and identifying areas for healing, growth, or change.  This process helps to apply truth from God’s word to different areas in a person’s life experience or overall life history. Hebrew 4:12. Each of us were created with intent and purpose. Genesis 1:26-27, Psalm 139:13-16, Luke 12:7, Ephesians 2:8-10. Our hope is to care well for the individual or couple in front of us by providing time and a space as they can seek help and understanding about what is happening within their heart, lives, or household through their honest questions and sharing. People go through hard things, sometimes really hard things. God uses other people, tools, resources sometimes to provide “light” into our circumstance or sufferings. At Shield Counseling we do that with Biblical knowledge, solid curriculum, homework handouts, prayer, and other resources so we can make an impact and apply positive change to a person’s circumstance, suffering or trauma.

An individual may want to repair, confess, understand, forgive, repent, grieve or find freedom from one thing or a variety of things they have become aware of or may have identified. This could be from their personal or direct sin or from indirect sin that may of come through another person. Our hope is that many will see the benefit from biblical counseling and be able to work through areas that cause suffering or overwhelm us so they don’t have to walk it alone. Galatians 6:1-5. Sin, struggles and sufferings come to us many different ways such as; marriages, general relationships, chronic illness or health issues, Romans 7:24, Romans 8:22-23, addiction, past abortion, grief, loss, death or spiritual battles. Ephesians 6:12, 2 Timothy 2:24-26. Other ways sin, struggles or sufferings may manifest themselves are through insecurities, lack of self-esteem, identity issues, anxiety, depression or more. The primary goal for us in Biblical counseling is to give you, the individual a fresh perspective to see into your own personal story and identify problem areas, strengths, giftings so you can see breakthroughs and move forward in confidence whether for personal awareness, growth in your faith walk, healing, continued endurance in suffering or general rest and peace of mind. Romans 2:8-16, Lamentations 3:22-24, Colossians 3.

Biblical counseling is providing truth, guidance and instruction for faith and life. Hebrews 4:12. This type of counseling is based on biblical principle’s and truth rather than those of psychology or psychiatry. This is NOT licensed therapy nor are we acting in that capacity. The Bible is being used as the final authority in biblical counseling. 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Proverbs 28:19.