Biblical and Christian Counseling in 60551: Sheridan, IL.

There is peace and serenity in understanding Christ’s grace-filled message. Together we can journey into the depth of God’s love for you and work to strengthen your experience with Christ. The bible provides guidance and direction for how we should be living our lives. In my personal life, I continually seek to strengthen my walk with Christ and to deepen my relationship with Him. I am an LCSW and a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors.

My relationship with God is who I am. I began going to Willow Creek Community Church when it was only 500 people. Today it hosts over 30,000 on a weekend. I have a strong biblical background as I also attended a small Christian college, Azusa Pacific University, for my bachelor's degree where I took many theology classes. At Willow Creek my husband & I helped launch the DuPage campus, led the Marriage Matters ministry for 4 years, and have served in many other areas. My goal is as a Christian counselor is to create an safe place where you know you matter to God so that you can work through you pains, hurts, and relationship concerns.

Christian counseling combines principles of your faith with the principles of psychology to improve your behavioral health and relationships. This may involve use of scripture and biblical teachings to help you understands and learn how to deal with life's challenges. In other words, Christian counseling uses faith as the foundation and blueprint to help clients interpret the world, including problems, and learn how to respond to challenges with Christian based guidelines. This approach is tailored to individuals who follow the Christian faith so they can feel assured their functioning aligns with their faith.

For clients that place importance in spiritually, biblically based counseling can be beneficial. Faith based counseling can assist a wide range of clients including couples, families, and individuals while using religion to help guide the way. Clients will gain empowerment as they learn to incorporate their beliefs and values to direct the counseling process. Faith based counseling can be effective in coping with a wide variety of life’s issues while using the holistic approach to improve a client’s mind, body and spirit.

Offering support and counseling under the guidance of Christ's word, your therapist will work with you to connect the principals in the bible with your personal life. You'll benefit from a reduction of symptoms, and a renewed relationship with Jesus and yourself. I believe that by allowing ourselves to ask Christ to help us with our problems, combined with spiritually focused, problem solving counseling, you can begin to find a renewed sense of purpose, spirituality and inner happiness.

God created individuals as physical beings with emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs. Karen has been called by God to assist people facing challenges in their lives, and she will do so with a nonjudgmental attitude, honesty, and a servant's heart. As a counselor, Karen combines clinically sound treatment methods with Christian based principals, and as a Christian, she understands and respects her client's sincerely held beliefs and can effectively counsel from their perspective.

Learning what God's word says in the area of marriage, parenting, worry, sadness and relationships can be life changing. Applying what His word says is sure to be one of the most affective tools to live a life that will be God honoring and living in obedience to what God wants for our lives. Having a strong prayer life and someone to hold us accountable will allow effect change to take place that is consistent and long lasting. Realizing that God creates a God size hole in our hearts that only He can fill may be a game changer for many.