How To Give Wise Counsel When You’re Not a Counselor
I’m so excited today to be here with Dr Tim Clinton the president and founder of the American Association of Christian counselors and Tim you have an amazing program to help people become a mental health coach which is desperately needed tell us a little bit about that and then I’m also going to tell you about some scholarships that are available Lisa prior to the pandemic we had a mental health crisis in this country since covet hit and with everything that’s come with like the gift that keeps on giving we have a mental health pandemic going
on like a disaster we had no idea the amount of need but we knew there was a massive need between those who needed help and those Who provided help but there weren’t enough providers especially Christian providers so we watched a program called our mental health coach first responder training program it’s a 42-hour training a lot of states recognize this level of Provider what it features are some of the best mental health and Ministry experts in the world teaching you about issues like stress and anxiety depression
how to work through crisis Inlet even suicidality what does it look like how can you quote recognize how can you respond to it how do you relate to someone who’s there and how do you make sure they get the help they need here’s what’s amazing launched just a couple years ago had no idea what God was going to do since then 11 000 churches have enrolled in this program we have over thirty thousand students and here’s the best news you can become a mental health coach first responder you don’t need a lot you don’t need any specialized
training or anything like that I have five sisters they do a lot more counseling than I do over a cup of coffee and what you get is you get to learn what to say when you don’t know what to say and what to do when you don’t know what to do you learned about the issues and you learned about how to use the Bible more effectively and helping someone who’s broken Lisa it’s stunning and here’s what what’s really encouraging to me is all across this country now people are being ministered to through people like my Five Sisters again and we partnered
