Christian Counseling, as praciced by Patrick Yates, offers confidential, faith-based counsel from a trained, experienced professional. A Christian counselor melds modern methods of assessment and techniques with the ancient scriptures to help provide comfort and aid to those struggling with life issues. Education, experience and common sense are combined with faith in the God who cares to create this powerful approach to counseling.

Types of issues counseled include:

• Marriage and family including couples counseling, as well as help with parenting and child/adolescent issues.
• Recovery from substances, sexual addiction, anger.
• Mental and emotional health problems including depression, anxiety as well as suicidal thoughts and attempts.
• Child and adolescent counseling for a variety problems young people face
• Severe and persistent major mental illness:Although major mental health issues and psychotic disorders such as psychosis, schizophrenia, panic attacks, phobias, are treated best by psychiatry, supportive counseling as an adjunct treatment

Christian Counseling?

If your belief in God is important to you then Christian Counseling may be your best choice.

Consider that medical practice is fundamentally based on biology, physiology, pharmacology, etc. When you visit the doctor you expect him/her to have this orientation.

The basis of Counseling, or talk therapy, is Philosophy. Thus the counselor’s life-view has a dramatic impact on the counseling process, whether or not you expect it. read more