Pastoral Care Consultation
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Consultation Areas
1. Integrating Spirituality in Client Care
- Ethically integrate a client's faith into their care, even if they hold a faith tradition and perspective different than your own.
- Help clients discover spiritual resources that enrich their spiritual life and mental health.
- Help clients unpack and examine beliefs received from their upbringing.
- Walk with clients through the process of unpacking beliefs that may no longer resonate with them.
- Aid in the process of helping clients rebuild a new spiritual identity that aligns with their actual beliefs, authentic self, and life goals.
- Recognize factors that can make spirituality and religion harmful to certain clients and groups.
- Understand the psychological and emotional scars that can emerge from harmful religious experiences.
- Support clients as they discover new spiritual perspectives that help them heal and move forward.
- Equip clients with theological perspectives that celebrate LGBTQ+ people, emphasizing that all are deserving of love and belonging within spiritual communities.
- Help LGBTQ+ conversion therapy survivors unpack and challenge harmful ideas around their self-worth and identity received from conversion therapy.
- If desired, help survivors reconstruct a spirituality that is life-giving to them and affirming of who they are.
- Identify your passion and expertise within spiritual care to find a fulfilling career path, whether in pastoral counseling, spiritually-integrated psychotherapy, chaplaincy, spiritual direction, or other forms of spiritual care.
- For pastoral counselors, therapists, and spiritual directors in private practice: learn the essentials of business management, marketing strategies, and ethical considerations to grow a fulfilling and legally compliant spiritual care practice.
Contact TresTo schedule a consultation or for more information, please contact Tres here. Thank you for taking the steps needed to create a safe, accepting, and spiritually nourishing environment for your clients. Your commitment to their well-being can help shape their journey of self-discovery and healing.
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