Disclosure for Informed
Consent
GraceRenewal provides
counseling support to couples and individuals for
- Divorce Intervention,
- Marriage Counseling,
- Parenting Support, and
- Faith Renewal
Phase One: (1-2
sessions) support for Identifying
- the Pain,
- the Problem (unmet needs),
- God’s Provisions for
meeting those needs, and
- God’s Plan for connecting
to his Resources in (Creation, Community, and especially Christ) through
which those needs are met.
Phase Two: (1-2
sessions) support for learning how to
- read the Scripture
(in order to)
- hear God
1) communicate Truth and also 2) call us to receive him (in order to)
- experience Christ in quiet-time worship (in order to)
- be supported by him for making
scheduled choices each day leading to increased health and happiness
(in order to)
- manifest his Likeness into the community beginning with family.
Phase Three: (Advanced / Optional) Institute for Studies in
Grace Concepts (Wednesday 6:00 pm)
THE INITIAL INTERVIEW
What to Expect
- During the Initial Interview, prospective counselees will be
- encouraged to share relevant
information about their need and goals for counseling,
- given an Information Packet to include
The
Disclosure for Informed Consent, and
- asked to listen to two 5-minute videos before scheduling follow-up counseling:
- Expect a 1-2 hour visit.
- Prospective Counselees can request an
email attachment of the Information Packet to review before deciding to
schedule an Initial Interview.
FOLLOW-UP COUNSELING
What to Expect
- GraceRenewal provides counseling support through 2-4 weekly,
multi-phased, two hour sessions.
- While we support the complex treatment methods sometimes needed to
meet counseling needs, GraceRenewal Counseling does not use the term
“therapy” or “psychotherapy” to define or represent the counseling we
offer.
- Counselees can expect our counseling to be Scripture supported,
pastoral, and appropriately friendly, and to increasingly become a
teacher-student relationship for learning grace concepts.
- In order to help maximize our time and to help assure that
our specific goals for counseling are accomplished, pets or young children
should not be present during counseling sessions.
- Persons taking Antidepressants may not find our counseling to be
helpful.
SCHEDULING
To schedule an Initial Interview
- email dlw@GraceRenewalCounseling.org
- or call 336-681-7913 (9am-9pm / 7 days)
Counselees can schedule Follow Up counseling
- for the same day/time each week (2-4 weeks).
APPOINTMENT TIMES (Monday thru Friday)
- Morning: 10:00 and 12:00
- Afternoon: 2:00 and 4:00
- Evening: 6:00 or 7:00
COST
GraceRenewal
- is supported by churches, businesses, and individuals
(non-counselees),
- provides counseling without charge, which may help
offset counselees' cost of time and travel to our office.
CONFIDENTIALITY
- Confidential information obtained
during the pastoral counseling relationship is protected, privileged
communication, and all records are stored, handled, or disposed of in a
way that assures their security and confidentiality. (The limitations of
confidentiality include: to prevent a clear and immediate danger to a
person or persons; when child abuse is suspected or apparent; and in legal
proceedings where pastoral counselors do not have the privilege.) Also,
the specific content of communications with a client under eighteen years
of age is confidential; however, the minor's guardian(s) have a right to
receive general information on the process of the treatment.
ADDRESS
Offices for GraceRenewal are at
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Why GraceRenewal Counseling is Different
Our counseling is different because it begins with providing support for learning how to read the Scripture in order to hear God communicate Truth to us, mainly that
- his love for us is unconditional,
- his interest in every detail of our life is intense and passionate, and
- his commitment to our health and happiness is unfailing.
It is based on the belief that
- the spiritual renewal and healing of our heart (mind and emotions) is the first step to the healing of our life, home, and marriage, that
- it is impossible for broken, unhappy persons to have a healthy, happy marriage, and that
- recovered health and happiness is not the result of what we can do to work on ourself, but of what we will allow God to do in and for us.
Don/GraceRenewal
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