Personal Worldview: My Call As A Christian Counselor

How we look at the world is our personal worldview, how we were raised plays a big part of that. Being raised a Christian and the bible is an important part of my upbringing. I believe understanding who I am lets me better help others. The bible is naturally integrated into my entire life. The creation, fall, redemption and restoration is a big part of the reason we need to help struggling people in this fallen world. Can you imagine creation, when the world was new, and nothing was keeping us from a pure relationship with God? That is the life God imaged for us, but that is not the one I will be telling.

My Call as a Christian Counselor

“A biblical worldview is thus a perspective that sees everything through the ‘glasses’ of Scripture, rather

I was sitting on the school bus on thinking, “why am I here?” I fully believe we all have a calling or purpose in our lives. God has a plan for us; we just must listen to hear what that is, “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” (Jeremiah 29:11 New International Version). My purpose driven questioning comes from my belief and values. Our worldviews are formulated very early in life (Bufford, 2007). My culture, such as beliefs, and values played an important role in my search for purpose as I was raised in the church and have always known I was called to be a Christian counselor. God will send me clients and the Holy Spirit will speak through me, “For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours” (John 17:8-9

After being a therapist for several years, I knew that I wanted to spend more time truly listening in conversations with my patients to make them feel someone cared. In my current position that is not always possible because I must respond to a physical situation first, such as a dying person coming into the emergency room. I saw the misconnection in the hospital of people suffering with mental health that was not being addressed, such as in cases of suicide. A suicide patient is brought into the emergency room and is usually sent to the intensive care unit, put into a room with a sitter that watches them so they do not attempt to hurt themselves again. Many of the sitters just sit at the door not inside the room. Most of the time the nurses and hospital staff do not even go into the room for fear of what to say to them. We collectively with all displins round on the patient and what the medical team talks about is astounding. They say they do not know how to help them. The patient sits in a guarded room on a seventy-two hour hold, with no one to talk to them, and the hospital staff is not trained in how to help them. I believe the patient has not followed through with the attempt because they do not want to die, but they are crying out for help. We are missing the bar here and that is one reason I have chosen to broaden my identity and become a counselor so I can help with