Pastoral Counseling:Where One Encounters The Enormity Of God's Love

by Gerald V. Miller

Overview

The pastoral counselor brings God's presence to the counseling session. The counselor radiates God's enormous unconditional love and forgiveness to the client. Clients come in because they are spiritually broken and prey to the allies of darkness--fear of abandonment from God and those they love, resentment, frustration, anxiety, and callousness. He is the prodigal son. Through empathy, compassion, and counseling skills, the pastoral counsel connects them to the God who runs to meet him with joy, throws his arms around him, kisses him, forgives him, and makes him psychologically and spiritually whole again by giving him the signet ring. The pastoral counselor's role is to facilitate this occurrence.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158667923
Publisher:	Covenant Books
Publication date:	02/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	777,184
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Monsignor Gerald V.A. Miller, SSM, MDiv, ThD, PhD has been in private practice as pastor counselor and psychologist for forty-two years. He is a licensed professional counselor LPC, a MSW social worker, a masters of divinity (MDiv), doctor of theology (ThD), and PhD clinical psychologist. Also over the years, he has been a professor of psychology and pastoral counseling in various universities and seminaries. Monsignor Doctor Miller has been a Catholic priest for forty-two years.