“Seeking true recovery to replace pain with healing peace.”
New Horizons Institute of Counseling is an outreach ministry of the United Brethren In Christ Church. Dr. Pierre J. Samaan, is the Director of Counseling for this church ministry. The counseling center is located in an office building away from the church to allow those of different faiths to feel comfortable utilizing the Christian counseling services.
Christian counseling is crisis intervention and the strengthening of Christian character and values, which is Discipleship. The Clinical Christian/Pastoral Counselors at New Horizons Institute of Counseling are Ordained ministers and professional Christian Counselors* committed to the welfare of the Christian. This is an inter-denominational ministry that accepts referrals from church pastors, physicians, attorneys, and institutions.
When in Christian counseling, clients are encouraged to take advantage of their own church programs. The local church is a support system with much to offer.
Christian counseling will help the client move beyond tolerable existence into genuine inner healing, renewal and wholeness. Tolerable recovery is the process of getting better. True recovery says, “I made it!” This is when I can look at the source of my pain and realize it has been replaced with healing peace.
This Christian counseling ministry is founded on Christ-centered recovery:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord… To comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve… to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair… The counsel of the Lord will stand forever.” (Lk. 4:18-19; Isa. 61:1-3; Ps. 33:11) |
