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A Few Words About Us
The Wellness Center was founded for a real Passion for Mental Health and family therapists, the Wellness Center focuses on relational issues and increased fulfillment for family, business, and personal life. Men and women, couples, families, adolescents and children come to us to source their strengths and improve their relationships. Specialty areas for our practice include: Christian Counseling, marriage and family therapy, play therapy, recovery, grief, healing from betrayal, trauma, EMDR, and discernment counseling for couples.
Our Mission
The Wellness Group Counseling is a professional mental health service that allows users to connect with licensed therapists that share a Christian background. By combining Biblical wisdom with clinical expertise in mental health, our counselors do their best to invite God into the conversation and formulate actionable plans that best address the unique challenges their clients face. Our goal is to holistically improve clients’ well-being, so that they may feel mentally, emotionally, and spiritually healthy.
Our vision is that The Wellness Group will be an instrument that God uses to bring His love, forgiveness, peace, joy, and deep healing in a practical and life-changing way Our mission is to promote healthy relational systems and increased fulfillment in family, business, and personal life. We advocate for increased love, connection, and attunement through mutually beneficial relationships, personal growth and healing.
Our Christian Core Values
- Love
- Integrity
- Faithful
- Forgiveness
- Patience
- Compassion
- Humility
A Christian's Life.
Inseparable from the gift of life through Christ is His claim on our life and our call to His service. So beyond His grace and forgiveness, and our belief, confession and acceptance, the Christian life requires repentance, or turning from our old ways, and following God's path for our life instead of our own. This means surrendering our will to His, which is a struggle for even the most devout follower of Christ. It also means honoring God in the way that we live and relate to others. That includes our stewardship over what He has entrusted to us (possessions, opportunities, relationships, etc.) and how we conduct business with others.
Purpose
Man is Created in His Image and the Crown of Creation.
Being created in God's image establishes relationship, but does not mean in any way that we are divine, or part of God. It means He has given us an eternal soul that will outlive our bodies, the temporary shell in which we reside now. This eternal dimension differentiates mankind from all else in creation. God created man with the capacity to know Him, but with the free will to choose fellowship with or reject Him. Our human nature, expressed in the pursuit of self and enabled by man's free will, has also allowed us the ability to corrupt God's plan for us.
Mankind is innately rebellious and controlling. We seek our own way and advantage over others. That is the essence of sin - that which is displeasing to God. It separates us from a holy God. At its worst, it can make man capable of unbridled evil. But even those with a relatively uncorrupted conscience constantly fail to meet even their own standards of righteousness, much less God's. No one is "good enough" to know, love and fellowship with God. His standard is perfection. Contrary to the popular notion, our righteousness is not a matter of weighing our good against our bad to tip the scales one way or the other. The apostle Paul's letter to the Romans says it this way: "For all have sinned and fallen short of God's perfection."
God Revealed in Three Ways.
The scriptures describe one God who has revealed himself at various times in three distinct forms that we know as Father, Son, and Spirit. I am no theologian, but I believe that this revelation (commonly referred to as the Trinity) is entirely for the benefit of our limited capability of understanding. A helpful analogy is the physical properties of water than can exist as a solid, liquid, or gas yet always remains one and the same element. Admittedly, the comparison is inadequate but hopefully still helpful.
God's Plan to Redeem Fallen Man.
It is through God's revelation as Son, Jesus Christ, the Messiah, that sinful man can know and fellowship with a righteous and just creator God. That Jesus lived is a historical fact well documented and provable in the legal sense. That he is God incarnate who lived a sinless life for the ultimate purpose of becoming a sacrificial redemption for our iniquity, and was resurrected by God the Father, requires spiritual discernment and faith. But as creatures with free will, it also requires not just our knowledge of God, but our acceptance of the reality of His plan, which is at once disturbing and ugly in the brutal, unjust murder of a sinless man in place of others, and yet beautiful in how a righteous God loves his creation and provides for restoration and even adoption into his family. Simply stated, Christ died that we might fellowship with God now, and live with him forever when we leave our dead bodies behind.
God's Law and His Grace.
God's laws in scriptures are those commandments from God to govern our behavior and relationships, the most well known being the Ten Commandments. They have formed the basis for Western civilization and are enshrined on the US Supreme Court building. They are also His way of protecting us, individually and collectively, from the predictable results of sin. God's Word defines objective truth. His laws establish right and wrong. But it is God's grace and mercy that is the basis for our relationship with Him. Grace is the love and forgiveness that God offers even though we deserve punishment and separation from Him.
God's Claim and Call on the Christian's Life.
Inseparable from the gift of life through Christ is His claim on our life and our call to His service. So beyond His grace and forgiveness, and our belief, confession and acceptance, the Christian life requires repentance, or turning from our old ways, and following God's path for our life instead of our own. This means surrendering our will to His, which is a struggle for even the most devout follower of Christ. It also means honoring God in the way that we live and relate to others. That includes our stewardship over what He has entrusted to us (possessions, opportunities, relationships, etc.) and how we conduct business with others.
Significance of Work.
We believe honest, virtuous work that serves and brings value to others, also honors God. Our labor is in itself a noble pursuit and builds character. God takes pleasure in our virtuous efforts that are directed unselfishly for the benefit of others. Work is part of our call to His service, joining God in his plan for our life as He reveals it to us.
Jesus called Christians to be "salt and light" in this world, that is, to make a difference and have an impact on others that glorifies God, not us. Living the Christian life is not something we do in secret. Instead, it requires that we boldly respond in daily life to uphold Biblical truth, respond to opportunities for ministry, and be prepared to offer an explanation for our faith when asked, or confronted with evil. Our lives, including our work, should reveal Christ in us and draw others to Him. So while faith may be an individual matter, it is not a private one as some would like to assert.
Statement of Faith
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Statement of Faith
"I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought." 1 Corinthians 1:10
Paul's message for the Corinthian church calls us to a very high standard. When we observe the many denominations and theological rifts within the Christian church today, it can seem a daunting task to be "perfectly united in mind and thought." Despite this, we believe that these differences in thought that exist in the church needn't outweigh the greater truths that bind us together, and it is important that all members of Faithful Counseling--counselors and members alike--make an effort to strive toward being united in Christ under what matters most. We believe this will lead to the most successful counseling sessions, and any further details around theological leanings needn't be pressed. In order to reach common ground on what we believe are the most fundamental truths, all counseling members of our platform have agreed to the following core tenets of faith:
We believe that the Bible is the word of God, a collection of divinely-inspired writings that have been preserved for each generation, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and the only authoritative and infallible rule of Christian faith and practice. ("All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." 2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV)
We believe in the Triune nature of God (Trinitarianism), that He is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in one. ("Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." Matthew 28:19-20 ESV)
We believe the only true basis of Christian fellowship is Christ's (agape) love, which is greater than differences one may possess, and without which we have no right to claim ourselves Christians. ("Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 ESV)
We believe salvation is by God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ who died for our sins and rose again, providing eternal redemption to those who believe. It is not by our works or works of the law. ("For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast." Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV)