About Christian Counseling
How does Christian Listening Prayer Therapy compare with CBT - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.
In my Christian psychotherapy practice I use Christian Listening Prayer Therapy and it is a very effective method of healing deep beliefs and does so with greater speed and permanence than CBT - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
FOCUS ON CORE BELIEFS
All three practices have in common discovering Core Beliefs in whatever issue you want to deal with and using an approach focused on those Core Beliefs. This is an excellent start.
Focus on Active Memories
Listening prayer therapy and EMDR locates memories in which both the belief and the feeling are active which defines them as Active Memories. CBT fails to focus on Active Memories.
Confront the Core Belief
1. CBT uses mental repetition of an identified better belief to correct the identified core belief - cognitive approach.
2. EMDR uses Bilateral Stimulation and free association to discover a response that reduces the negative Core Belief.
3. Listening Prayer Therapy brings the active memory and Core Belief to God to listen for godly truth.
Results
Listening Prayer therapy and EMDR align with the research on changing emotional learning so we expect and find stable long-term change. The CBT model because it is cognitive and does not focus on an active memory can be predicted to be much less liekly to produce long-term results.
Christian Counseling means different things depending on who you ask. To understand the differences you’ll need to understand the variety of practices.
1. Prayerful Christian Counseling. Prayerful Christian Counseling involves trained professional counsellors who are willing to pray within a counseling session. I provide that in my Christian counselling sessions.
2. Faith-based Counselling. Faith-based Counselling involves a registered and trained Christian professional with a background of religious values and life-style who provides professional counselling with these values and perspectives in the background. People choose this to avoid being subject to religious misunderstanding and secular guidance. I provide faith-based counseling.
3. Christian Counselling. Christian Counselling with no prayer or faith-based perspective. Some Christian professional are Christians in name and church attendance but are secular in methods and perspective. Ask your potential counsellor if they often include prayer in the healing process or is their methodology the same as any secular counselor or psychotherapist. I do not fit in this category.
4. Biblical Counselling. Biblical counselling if often requested from those from an evangelical or fundamentalist background. Their assumption is the Bible has all the answers and that the counsellor provides answers from the Bible. I do not fit this category. One reason; I do not see my role as giving people answers for their life. I am a therapist who sees my role as bringing healing to root issues.
Contact details:
To establish your first session with George Phone (416) 939-0544.
Fee is $150 per hour.
To establish your first session with George Phone (416) 939-0544.
Fee is $150 per hour.
Testimonies from my Mission to Scotland
I visited Scotland to teach and minister. Here is the feedback.
Testimonies about Listening Prayer Therapy from teaching mission to Scotland - land of the free.The tools of my Listening Prayer Therapy provide breakthroughs to emotional freedom and lead to Life Transformation - the gaining of a one's identity in Christ. The following testimonies are used with permission.
George has brought to life in me the freedom I experienced at salvation, but have lost over the years - freedom to be me, to dare to trust God, to feature (be a partner) in this relationship with God prominently, to experience heaven here. I have experienced an awakening and a realization that we are always being reborn. Its not a one of. Hallelujah!
Liz of Saltcoats, Scotland
I am grateful for learning a practical, tangible way of getting in touch with God and hearing from Him. God does speak and does change your life.
Claire, Saltcoats, Scotland.
Discovering how to get God's Word from your head to your heart, in a few easy steps of praying and listening to God, was great. And is something I will do with any other experience that keeps me bound.
Jesus is the key, but, now, I have been shown how to use it; and open the door to my life, which I had kept well locked up under lock and key.
Thanks,
Katie :-) Stevenston, Scotland
Its been so encouraging watching Jesus transform lives through your prayer ministry. Its been so well received within the congregation and brought healing and freedom. I can also testify to it. Enjoyed having you. Come again soon.
Helen, Stevenston, Scotland.
Thank you for the way you pray and teach.
Mairi from Scotland.
George's visit has resulted in a breakthrough in who I am in Christ and where I am heading. The classes have been very beneficial and I would recommend it to anyone. May the Lord keep working in and with George. God bless,
Matthew, Saltcoats, Scotland.
Meeting George, and experiencing his Listening Prayer Therapy, has brought healing and balance to my inner life, my relationship with Jesus and my perception of who I am.
Your healing ministry has touched us all and many lives will never be the same. I can only say "Thank you Lord, and come back soon, George."
Francis, Androssan, Scotland
I visited Scotland to teach and minister. Here is the feedback.
Testimonies about Listening Prayer Therapy from teaching mission to Scotland - land of the free.The tools of my Listening Prayer Therapy provide breakthroughs to emotional freedom and lead to Life Transformation - the gaining of a one's identity in Christ. The following testimonies are used with permission.
George has brought to life in me the freedom I experienced at salvation, but have lost over the years - freedom to be me, to dare to trust God, to feature (be a partner) in this relationship with God prominently, to experience heaven here. I have experienced an awakening and a realization that we are always being reborn. Its not a one of. Hallelujah!
Liz of Saltcoats, Scotland
I am grateful for learning a practical, tangible way of getting in touch with God and hearing from Him. God does speak and does change your life.
Claire, Saltcoats, Scotland.
Discovering how to get God's Word from your head to your heart, in a few easy steps of praying and listening to God, was great. And is something I will do with any other experience that keeps me bound.
Jesus is the key, but, now, I have been shown how to use it; and open the door to my life, which I had kept well locked up under lock and key.
Thanks,
Katie :-) Stevenston, Scotland
Its been so encouraging watching Jesus transform lives through your prayer ministry. Its been so well received within the congregation and brought healing and freedom. I can also testify to it. Enjoyed having you. Come again soon.
Helen, Stevenston, Scotland.
Thank you for the way you pray and teach.
Mairi from Scotland.
George's visit has resulted in a breakthrough in who I am in Christ and where I am heading. The classes have been very beneficial and I would recommend it to anyone. May the Lord keep working in and with George. God bless,
Matthew, Saltcoats, Scotland.
Meeting George, and experiencing his Listening Prayer Therapy, has brought healing and balance to my inner life, my relationship with Jesus and my perception of who I am.
Your healing ministry has touched us all and many lives will never be the same. I can only say "Thank you Lord, and come back soon, George."
Francis, Androssan, Scotland