Therapy & Support Articles

• The Search for a Good Therapist by Svali
  Discusses how the survivor can look for a therapist, using a phone interview and questions.  This article is helpful for anyone looking for a therapist, however it is targeted to survivors of ritual abuse.

Links

American Association of Pastoral Counselors

Biblical Counseling Association

Coalition for Christians in Private Practice (CCPP), a division of AACC, is a national referral network of community and church-based, licensed professional counseling providers, offering care that is distinctively Christian and clinically excellent. CCPP members have demonstrated minimal requirements and compenecies for clinical excellence and Biblical integration in Christ-centered care.

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a complex method of psychotherapy that integrates many of the successful elements of a range of therapeutic approaches incombination with eye movements or other forms of rhythmical stimulation in ways that stimulate the brain’s information processing system. With EMDR therapy it is unnecessary to delve into decades-old psychological material, but rather, by activating the information-processing system of the brain, people can achieve their therapeutic goals at a rapid rate, with recognizable changes that don’t disappear over time.

Find a Pastoral Counselor
Pastoral Counseling is a unique form of psychotherapy which uses spiritual resources as well as psychological understanding for healing and growth.

Find-A-Therapist.com
Find a Therapist, Inc. is the leading web based provider of services for mental health professionals and their clients. It is the largest international network of Therapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Counselors and other mental health professionals on the Web, offering the client the greatest choice possible to find the right care provider.  Click here for their suggested guidelines for choosing a therapist.

How to Choose a Competent Counselor
A consumer’s guide for anyone who is considering professional counseling and wants to know howto go about it.

Narramore Christian Foundation aka Psychology for Living

Nouthetic Counseling

Solving The Puzzle: Finding Help
Finding the help you need is similar to putting the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle together. Whether your need is for yourself, your children,spouse, or entire family, your task is to find the therapist who can best help you. While there is excellent therapy available, there is also poor and abusive therapy. Sometimes, people simply go to the wrong therapist for their personality and needs. In these cases, the puzzle pieces never fit together.  One major factor in successful therapy is the relationship that develops between you and your psychotherapist. This link goes to an article that describes the pieces of the puzzle or effective therapy.

Theophostic Ministries
A Bible based method of treatment for many issues common to ritual abuse, mind control, sexual abuse, and dissociation.

When Help Is Needed
A biblical view of counseling from Radio Bible Class:  Is Counseling An Option?  What About Secular Counsel?  Why Are Some Problems So Resistant To Change?  What Kind Of Counsel Do We Need?  When Do I Go For Counsel?  A Note About Pastors   When Professional Counseling Is Needed  A Summary Of Biblical Counseling