Level II - Advanced Training
Modules 7-10

Counsel with discernment. Minister in the midst of complexity.
Advanced Training challenges and equips you to address layered, difficult, and often long-standing issues that require more than basic biblical answers.
These modules prepare you to walk wisely with people facing trauma, addiction, family crises, and deeply ingrained patterns of struggle, offering Christ-centered care rooted in Scripture and seasoned with grace.

Module 7:
Marriage & Family Counseling

This module establishes a distinctly biblical and historically Christian foundation for understanding marriage and family.
​Rather than importing modern psychology or cultural norms, we anchor our counseling approach in God's revealed design. You will explore marriage as a covenantal, Christ-centered union that reflects God's relationship with His people, and how this understanding shapes counseling for both individuals and couples. From family-of-origin dynamics to marital conflict and parenting struggles, this module equips you to address complex issues with theological clarity, pastoral wisdom, and practical insight.

Module 8:
Intro to Christian Reconciliation

Biblical counseling is not merely about personal transformation, it’s about restoring relationships. This module lays a foundation for understanding and applying biblical reconciliation rooted in the gospel. You will examine the difference between peacekeeping and peacemaking, explore the biblical process of confession, repentance, and forgiveness, and learn how to navigate conflicts and broken relationships with wisdom and grace. Special focus is given to the ministry of reconciliation as both a calling and a process of Spirit-empowered restoration.

Module 9:
Addiction & Recovery Models

Module 10:
Crisis, Loss & Trauma Counseling

This module examines addiction through a biblical lens, contrasting secular and Christian recovery models with a robust theology of bondage and freedom in Christ. You’ll explore the roots of addictive patterns, including desire, idolatry, and false refuge, and evaluate the claims and methods of programs like the 12- Steps, Celebrate Recovery, and disease-model modalities. The goal is not just to critique but to equip, giving you practical, Christ-centered tools for walking with those enslaved by life-dominating struggles and pointing them toward true freedom through the gospel.

Not all suffering resolves neatly, and not all explanations are trustworthy. This module equips you to walk wisely with people who face enduring struggles, while also challenging the cultural drift toward medicalized interpretations of the soul. You’ll learn how to offer steady, gospel-centered care to those with long-term affliction, relational hardship, or deeply embedded destructive patterns of thinking and living. Along the way, we examine and dismantle popular but unbiblical claims from trauma-informed and neurocentric models that blur the lines between body and soul.
Rather than being driven by outcomes, you’ll be trained to minister patiently, truthfully, and redemptively in the slow, sacred work of long-term soul care.