Counseling Ministry Planning
Counseling Ministry
Many pastors want to help their congregations with spiritual and emotional struggles, but feel unprepared to launch a counseling ministry. Our Counseling Ministry Planning service provides church leaders with expert guidance, proven strategies, and hands-on consultation to design and implement a sustainable lay counseling ministry rooted in both Scripture and mental health best practices.
Service Highlights:
Best Practices: Learn how to structure a safe, ethical, and biblically grounded lay counseling ministry.
Strategic Planning: Create a ministry plan aligned with your church’s vision, size, and resources.
Team Development: Train and equip lay leaders, elders, or deacons to serve as pastoral care partners.
Implementation Support: Step-by-step coaching for intake forms, referral processes, and confidentiality guidelines.
Ongoing Consultation: Continued support as your ministry grows, adapts, and impacts lives.
Who It’s For:
- Senior pastors and associate pastors launching a counseling ministry.
- Church leadership boards seeking a structured care plan.
- Faith communities that want to combine spiritual care with mental health awareness.
Your church doesn’t have to “figure it out” alone. Let us help you design a counseling ministry that is safe, sustainable, and Christ-centered.
What’s Included:
- Best‑practice frameworks (confidentiality, boundaries, referrals)
- Leader/volunteer training
- Custom ministry handbook & forms
- Implementation coaching
Outcomes:
- Protects people and leaders
- Shares the load of care
- Sustainable systems that last
Packages:
- Starter: 90‑min strategy + templates + action plan
- Standard: 3 sessions + custom framework + workshop + 60‑day support
- Premium: 5 sessions/6 months + handbook + coaching + priority supp
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Trainee Reviews
This event fit our ministry because, the training gave us not only mental health awareness. Awareness from a Biblical perspective. The training gave a theological and therapeutic approach. I believe all who are in leadership positions would benefit from this training. Especially on how to approach mental health issues in the Church.
We encounter different types of people and with this information we can engage on several levels, knowing the warning signs and with better understanding we can achieve greater lasting results.
Our mission is to restore the lives of individuals and families who are homeless and to prevent homelessness. Many who are homeless are experiencing mental health issues. We are now better equipped to assist those who are experiencing these challenges.
We constantly come in contact with people and this helps us to better understand how we should react to people who are experiencing a mental health crisis.
The workshop was very informative and I truly enjoyed the presentation.
The training was delivered in the spirit of Excellence!
Thank you for preparing an amazing training. All of the information, open dialogue, scenario based group discussions and knowledge of the speaker/presenter made the training a success. I had a great experience.