Counseling & Coffee… Understanding the difference between traditional Psychology and Biblical Counseling
Counseling & Coffee… Understanding the difference between traditional psychology and Biblical counseling by Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach Recently a 6th grade student asked me a very insightful question after a chapel service for her home-school group in Orlando. She wanted to know the difference between the kind of psychology talked about on popular television programs and Christian counseling. It was a great question because every day the industry of psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy become more and more a normal part of our culture, but often this popular source of advice doesn’t include the kind of wise counsel talked about in the Bible. Here's how I answered her question with hopes that it will add value to your journey as well. I believe that psychology is the study of human nature and behavior, which is extremely useful to reveal Why people do the things they do. However, psychology is often unreliable on guiding people wit