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pastoral counseling
noun
- the use of psychotherapeutic techniques by trained members of the clergy to assist parishioners who seek help for personal or emotional problems.
Example Sentences
Kelly Johnson is the owner and chief executive of Onward Christian Counseling Services, a pastoral counseling service rooted in faith, per a Friday report from HuffPost.
Bryant鈥檚 early interest in psychology was rooted in her father鈥檚 pastoral counseling.
The Presbytery of Cleveland鈥攖he organizing body to which Hare belonged鈥攊ssued a remarkable statement emphasizing the sanctity of pastoral counseling and asking to be brought up on charges in Massachusetts, saying that it was corporately aware of and responsible for 鈥渢he alleged violation.鈥
If a provider doesn't understand the source of the symptoms, he or she may send a client for pastoral counseling, or to AA, or even to another church.
At least she was able to avoid 鈥減astoral counseling鈥, offered by the school, but which students assume is, in effect, conversion therapy.
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