Using Scripture in Professional Christian Counselling without becoming a Biblical Counsellor

In this session we will consider some practical ways counsellors can ethically use sacred
texts meaningful to the client without ‘Bible bashing’. We will introduce an ethical
framework that can be used for any spiritual or religious intervention and briefly consider the
research that especially supports the use of Scripture with Christian clients.

To help with this we will discuss the difference between Christian counselling and biblical
counselling, recognising the merits of both yet more fully understanding why Biblical
Counselling is not suitable for a professional therapeutic session.

At the end of the course participants will be equipped with at least three practical ways they
can immediately incorporate scripture that is both ethically safe and in keeping with
counselling principles.