Psychotherapy In A Christian Counselors

Ever since the fall of man, sin has penetrated through every area of a person’s life. Christ made a way of escape for this sin when he died on the cross and rose from the dead. Although Christ has provided a way of escape, we cannot experience complete freedom from sin until we are joined with Christ either by dying physically or when the rapture comes. We are able to choose not to sin, but the effects of sin will still affect us whether that is through our personal sin, sin of others, or medical conditions. For this reasons, Christians still go through a lot of struggles with sin. Because the struggle can seem unbearable at times, we are called to “bear one another’s burdens” in order to help each other become more like Christ (Galatians 6:2, ESV). At times, a person may need a counselor to bear with their burdens. Proverbs 11:14 tells us that people fail with lack of guidance but they stay safe with an abundance of counselors. …show more content…
Psychotherapy can be defined as “The treatment of mental and emotion disorders through the use of psychological techniques designed to encourage communication of conflict and insight into problems, with the goal being personality growth and behavior modification.” (“psychotherapy”). There are some positive benefits through psychotherapy. One of those benefits is the aspect of communication. Psychotherapy does not just try to treat symptoms, but tries to find the problems through building a relationship with the counselee through a lot of communication (American Psychological Association). This is a good approach to take in the counseling room because it is important to get to the root cause of an issue. With that being said, psychotherapy more often than not gets the cause of the symptoms wrong. The underlying cause to all problems is sin. Christian counselors need to recognize this and not hold to the excuses the secular world says are the