How is Biblical Counseling Different?

Biblical counseling is guided by a faithful interpretation of God’s perspective of an improved way of life.

The best counseling helps people trust God enough to reorient their lives towards an application of His principles and purposes. Biblical counseling embraces that choices have consequences on a relational, spiritual, and personal level. Biblical counseling doesn’t view all possible outcomes as equally beneficial or even acceptable just because the client, culture, or clinician prefers it.

A biblical counselor has done their job well when the counselee sees that God is good, His word can be trusted, and your goal together is to discover how to best honor God in responding to life’s trials. A good biblical counselor commits to wrestling with various biblical principles and how they should impact the way we think, feel, and desire.

In a word, we believe that good counseling requires good theology.

The theologian AW Tozer captures it well with this quote: “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”

Good theology has a place in good counseling, and it is impossible to truly improve life without it. While biblical counseling is certainly more than a theology lesson, it must wrestle with how a counselee views God and how that impacts the trials they are facing.

Make sure the counsel your receive is biblically accurate and compelling so it won’t bring further harm or distress!