Be committed to biblical counseling as described on the What is Biblical Counseling page. This involves coming to each session with a humble, teachable spirit, seeking to learn how God wants you to handle your life based on his Word.
Attend each scheduled session on time. Allow sixty minutes for most sessions, with a little more for the first session. If an emergency keeps you from attending, please contact your counselor immediately. Apart from prior agreement, we do not reply to frequent calls, email, texts, or letters.
Be as open and honest as you can. At the same time, we realize that talking about your problems may be very difficult for you and that your trust in your counselor may take time to develop.
Be patient—your problems did not develop in a day. It may take your counselor several sessions to get to know you and understand your situation. It is vital for them to listen carefully and gather thorough information.
Participate regularly and actively in the life and ministry of a Christ-centered, biblical church. Regular participation in a church provides you with vital complements to biblical counseling: God-centered worship, solid Bible teaching with practical life application, pastoral care, and meaningful friendships with other people needing and learning God’s grace.
What to Bring
Each session will contain Scriptural reading from the Bible. Please bring a bible or have access to a Bible app. We use the ESV version in the counseling but NIV, NASB, CSB and other modern translations are acceptable.
Growth Assignments
Your counselor will give you helpful, doable growth assignments that fit the counseling aims. These are vital parts of the counseling process. In between sessions, complete the growth assignments given, and review and pray over the matters discussed during previous sessions.
Your counselor may ask you to purchase books or other materials as part of the counseling growth process.
Fees
We believe that biblical counseling is ideally a ministry of the local church and encourage counselees to contact their church leaders for help. Since this ministry is not state-licensed, medically based counseling, most insurance companies will not pay for biblical counseling. Many churches offer financial assistance for counseling fees for its members and may be willing to help offset the cost.
The Bible is clear that ministers of the gospel of Jesus are entitled to earn their living from the gospel, including vocational ministry. At the same time, the Bible is clear that the gospel of Jesus Christ is a precious gift that should be offered without price, and that it may be necessary for ministers of Christ to selflessly serve those in their care.
With these two statements above in tension with each other, we charge $80.00 per session. We do not want this to be a barrier to anyone needing counseling, we will work with you. In addition to this, your counselor may ask you to purchase books or other materials as part of the counseling growth process. All major forms of payment are accepted in person or through our Payments page.