Lay Counseling Goals

The primary goal of lay counseling is to help a counselees to strengthen and grow their relationship with Jesus Christ. The goal is to work with the counselee to devote themselves to becoming more like Jesus while watching them grow into a mature Christian. Lay Counseling focuses on spiritual and psychological maturity. This maturity comes through obedience and surrender to the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Counselee. As the counselee strives to be more like Jesus, the counselee experiences a more abundant life experiencing a more fulfilling worship and walk with God. (Crabb 1977 23) Within clinical counseling more time is spent working with counselees to manage more severe cases which involve greater skills and deeper sessions of discovery and …show more content…
In both forms of counseling, the counselor works to point their counselee toward Jesus as the ultimate hope and healer. As I look toward completing my education, the direction I feel myself being pulled toward is that of lay counseling. As one who has struggled through abuse and divorce, my ultimate goal in working with others is that of helping them to find their true identity in Christ. Through counseling, I want to work with the counselee to discover the abundant life that can come from walking daily with Jesus by living a surrendered life. The ability to walk others through scripture as a way to bring light in dark seasons and clarity in confusing times is one that can bring about great change in the life of an individual struggling