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When the Demands of Your Ministry Are Too Much For Your Staff, Light Counseling Can Help
At Light Counseling, we believe the local church is the most effective context for a long-term, lasting transformation.
We also understand the struggles that pastors and church leaders face. If you serve in ministry, you’ve probably felt emotional exhaustion at some point. Maybe there’s been a time or two when a counseling situation has felt beyond your giftedness, or perhaps your schedule is constantly stretched thin. If this sounds like you, our team is here for you.
Light Counseling can help extend the reach and deepen the impact of your ministry by providing professional counseling that leads to heart change. Our Christian counselors blend time-tested psychological concepts with the truth of scripture—creating a clinically excellent, distinctly Christian counseling method we’ve employed for over 30 years.
Whether you’d like us to offer counseling at your church, schedule a churchwide leadership training led by clinicians, or refer church members to our office, we’d be honored to support your ministry. Contact us today to learn more information!
How Do You Know When to Refer Someone?
When someone’s problems have not been resolved after a couple of meetings with you
When the severity of someone’s problems extends beyond your training
When you find yourself working outside of your calling and giftedness during much of your ministry
When you feel burned out and overextended
Ways We Can Partner
Counseling
We provide counseling services to individuals, couples, and families referred to us by pastors and lay leaders. We work with children, adolescents, adults, and older adults.
Host a Satellite Counseling Office
Hosting a satellite office offers multiple benefits:
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- Increased accessibility of Christian-based professional counseling to members of the church
- Provision of an onsite resource to those that the church is ministering to in the community
- Positive image of the church in the community as a place that cares about the mental health of people
- Providing a service that enables people from outside of the church to come onto the campus of the church and have a positive experience
- Serving as an onsite resource to leaders in the church who may need consultation related to those they are ministering to
- Provide professionally trained Christian counselors, teaching resources, consultation services, and competitive rates with a sliding scale for church members
Leadership Trainings
We offer staff development packages to help churches enhance their ministry effectiveness. This program involves working with either the pastoral staff of large churches or the lay leaders of small to mid-sized churches. It consists of individual coaching for each of your pastors/leaders and group sessions where particular attention is given to the dynamics of the group as a whole. This is accomplished using leadership and personality inventories, which draw attention to the group’s strengths and weaknesses. This program typically takes place over a 2-4 month period and involves 2-3 individual sessions and 2-3 group sessions. We can modify the package to best meet your church’s needs. The value of this service is that it enhances the effectiveness of each individual on your team and moves your team toward experiencing biblical community.
Counseling Assistance Program (CAP)
The Counseling Assistance Program (CAP) is a referral mechanism for church leadership and functions, similar to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Through this, the fees for church members—who normally would not otherwise have access to Christian counseling—are on a sliding price scale.
Members receive counseling services at significantly reduced rates when a church has a CAP contract with Light Counseling. The CAP price scale would be available to church members specifically recommended by the pastoral staff for church members on an as-needed basis who do not otherwise have private insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid. The advantage of this program is that it encourages people in the congregation who need help to seek that help because it is more affordable. It also frees the pastor from spending large amounts of time counseling people, thereby enabling him to invest his time in leading and creating a vision for his church.
