COUNSELLING & TRAINING
Having worked in church pastoral care since 2009, I now divide up my time between one-to-one counselling and church pastoral care training. I love growing these services to best suit the needs of individuals and church families.
BIBLICAL COUNSELLING
One to one counselling, centred around the Bible. Life can be messy and overwhelming. Even Christians find ourselves in the midst of complicated circumstances, serious temptation, or difficult feelings - sometimes towards God. Counselling is a safe space to detangle living in a broken-world. A time to process overwhelm and hurt of the past and present, I am passionate about helping you to access afresh the hope we have in Christian faith.
Biblical Counselling Supervision
Supervision conversations to sharpen Biblical Counselling ministry. Have you set up vocationally in biblical counselling? Although I am not BACP registered, I have years of experience working through logistical and spiritual challenges of setting up a full-time service working closely alongside church family pastoral care. I offer one-hour supervision sessions for your personal and professional accountability. Frequency of sessions depends on your particular set up and need. Taking supervision seriously is crucial for loving counsellees well and maintaining integrity across the board. I am particularly keen on helping those just starting out to keep abiding closely in the Lord.
BCUK CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Training for individuals wishing to grow in bible-focused pastoral care. Can you spare around ten hours a week over a twelve week period? This part time course is produced by CCEF (Christian counselling Education Foundation) and is now ran by BCUK (Biblical counselling United Kingdom). It is a course all about careful handling of scripture in our conversations with others. The program aims to develop a culture of care in the local church, and people often find the biggest benefit to studying with us is their own deepening faith as they are first encouraged to biblically counsel their own hearts before the Lord to better love those around us. I tutor this course in the South West, at Widcombe Baptist Church Bath. The first module takes 12 weeks and is a great taster to see whether you might like to study with us further. To visit the course website, click below.
PASTORAL CARE SEMINARS
Church training, to encourage a culture of care rooted in Scripture. I love to link my biblical counselling learning and experiences in to my teaching for churches, CUs, weekends away and conferences. I am passionate about exciting churches in biblical pastoral care, helping us all to engage in bringing gospel hope to life's struggles.