Pastoral Christian Counseling

What is Pastoral Counseling?

Pastoral counseling is a type of counseling that combines therapy with spiritual care. It can help with a wide range of issues like grief, depression, anxiety, trauma, marriage and /or family problems. But what makes it unique is that it also helps with spiritual concerns like questions about your faith and purpose, struggles with forgiveness, guilt, or past issues dealing with spiritual abuse.

It helps people not only cope with pain but also grow in their spiritual life. Pastoral Counseling helps you work through issues while also keeping your faith and values in mind. It’s a place where human faith and human experience connect.

Pastoral Counselors use spiritual resources as well as psychological training to foster healing and growth for their clients. The Counseling is provided by certified and licensed pastoral counselors, who are not only mental health professionals but who have also had in-depth religious and/or theological training.

As an NCCA board-certified Pastoral Counselor, I use an integrated approach with my clients utilizing several therapy techniques including: CBT, Talk Therapy, Temperament analysis along with Inner Healing Prayer, Scripture and Biblical Counsel all under the guidance of the Holy Spirit to foster my client’s healing, growth and self-confidence.

Pastoral Counselors licensed with the National Christian Counselors Association (NCCA):

  • Have a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Counseling and are ordained ministers.

  • Use an integrated approach. They are educated in the Bible, various counseling methods and are trained to Counsel with Biblical understanding and Principles.

  • Follow the leading of the Holy Spirit in their counseling sessions.

  • Focus their counseling efforts on helping the counselee find emotional and spiritual balance.

  • Are trained to identify various temperament needs to help the counselee effectively change behavior by targeting problems at the source.

  • Are trained and experienced in understanding and dealing with spiritual influences and forces.

  • Are required to have yearly continuing education in order to keep their license and are strictly regulated by the NCCA.

In Addition:

Mignon Murrell is a Licensed Clinical Pastoral Counselor (License #24455) and a Certified Temperament Counselor with the NCCA and is a member of the the American Association for Christian Counselors (AACC). Mignon is an Ordained Minister, has a Masters Degree in Clinical Pastoral Counseling and has extensive experience in CBT, Talk Therapy, Various Inner Healing Prayer models and deliverance. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions you may have at: mignon@w2wc.org

Pastoral Counselors in the State of Texas are exempt from State certification and the Licensed Professional Counselor Act under Section 503.056 of the Texas Occupation Code.  However, they do have to be board-certified and licensed by a professional counseling organization, be an Ordained Minister and have a Masters degree in their field.  NCCA board-certified Pastoral Counselors are also required to uphold the NCCA Code of Ethical Standards.