What is Pastoral Counseling?

Pastoral counseling combines the insights and principles of Christian faith and theology with the knowledge and skills of the behavioral sciences.  Pastoral counseling is an intensification of the general ministry of the church.  Its primary goal is to empower people to experience increasing wholeness centered in Christ through the process of counseling conversations and with God's presence as a foundation. 

Because of the presence of God's Spirit, pastoral counseling conversations are more accurately understood as "trialogue" rather than as "dialogue".