Gabriel Mizrahi

Fair enough.

So she goes on.

Biblical counseling, the kind my sister sought out, is entirely different because its foundation is the Bible, and it leans on what it says to guide the process, particularly regarding the nature of mankind.

The fact that both Katie and her counselor started out in full agreement on several basic truths streamlined the process quite a bit.

But Katie said the most important thing was that she learned about the service from a mutual friend of the counselor, so there was some automatic trust there, coupled with significant distance from her own social network, which she wouldn't have had going anywhere else.

I think she meant if she had gone to any other biblical counselor, because it would have been too close.

Interesting question.

So she goes on.

She doesn't think she would have ended up getting help anywhere if it hadn't been for that recommendation.

She was just so vulnerable and ashamed, irrationally of course, but that was the problem.

and we're all so glad she tried it.

The other big thing was that the counselor got right to the heart of the problem, which only a biblical counselor knows and believes to do.

I don't know if she meant in general or if she meant...

in contrast to these other more mainstream Christian count.

But either way.

This raises another question, which is how a biblical counselor defines the heart of a problem.

And if they believe in getting to the heart of the matter, are they then guiding the conversation very quickly to that heart in like a heavy handed way with an agenda?

And in a way that might not focus as much on like empathy, trust, the relationship.

Although I'm guessing a biblical counselor would probably say, hey, I empathize with my congregationists, but I'm here to solve a problem.

And these are the tools that I have.