What is Biblical Counseling?

Biblical Counseling is a counseling practice that upholds Scripture as the authoritative Word of God believing that it holds the standard by which people must abide as they live their lives and is the guide by which to address spiritual concerns of any kind. Serenity & Grace Counseling upholds the belief that scripture offers life changing principles that bring about the process of transformation which God has provided through His inspired Word. This form of counseling is clinically informed, but it is in contrast to other forms of Christian counseling which may use a variety of secular approaches when working with clients such as systemic theories, psychoanalytic theory, and hypnoses which are all unused in our counseling sessions.

A goal of Biblical Counseling is for counseling to present the truth of God’s Word to the counselee to help lead them by the Spirit-empowered Word to be brought to a turning point at which they come to know some new biblical thinking or living, or to help strengthen them to not be moved by temptation and sin as before. This method of counseling is done largely in an instructional manner as seen in Colossians 3:16 where it states, “Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts”. This is done as to affect a counselee’s manner of life. The hope of Biblical Counseling is that problems in the counselee’s life will be dealt with differently than before and the counselee would have more confidence in the success of these problems being newly dependent on the work of the Holy Spirit, prayer and on the Word of God in their lives. At Serenity & Grace Counseling, the aim of our Biblical Counselors will be to help the counselee work toward the turning point in their lives so that they can move swiftly toward new successes.