Help and Hope with Julie Lowe and David Powlison.

Help and Hope: Mike Emlet and Winston Smith discuss the issue of unexperienced counselors.

Help and Hope Podcast: David Powlison and Winston Smith discuss understanding bipolar.

Help and Hope Podcast: Mike Emlet and Winston Smith discuss dieting and love.

Dr. David Powlison and Dr. Tim Lane discuss how the courses CCEF offers can help us grow both professionally and personally.

This week on Help and Hope - Ed Welch, Mike Emlet and our host Andrew Ray discuss how we can endure through suffering in our lives.

This week on Help and Hope Andrew Ray talks with CCEF faculty members Julie Lowe and Winston Smith about why humans find themselves so lonely.

This week on Help and Hope - Ed Welch, Mike Emlet and our host Andrew Ray discuss the question: "How do we know the will of God in our lives?"

Dr. David Powlison and Dr. Tim Lane discuss the similarities and differences between formal and informal counseling.

This week on Help and Hope - Ed Welch, Mike Emlet and our host Andrew Ray discuss the question: "Is Biblical Counseling for Non-Believers?"

Dr. David Powlison and Dr. Tim Lane discuss why they chose the book of Ephesians as the emphasis for the 2010 CCEF National Conference on Marriage. Get more information on our national conference here which takes place in Virginia Beach from November 11-14, 2010.

Dr. David Powlison and Winston Smith respond to the question: "How do I counsel teenagers about sex?" You can submit your own questions on the homepage of our website, www.CCEF.org.

Help and Hope: Dr. David Powlison and Dr. Tim Lane respond to an "Ask the Counselor" question about trusting God with our children.

Dr. David Powlison and Winston Smith respond to the question: "Does a troubled past disqualify someone to be a counselor?" You can submit your own question on the homepage of our website, www.CCEF.org.

Dr. David Powlison and Winston Smith discuss recent news articles suggesting the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could be effecting people's sense of security.

In this special edition of Help and Hope, Scott Wells, a pastor in Chattanooga, Tennessee, talks about his experience with the distance education program at CCEF.

This week on Help and Hope: Ed Welch, Mike Emlet and our host Andrew Ray discuss prayer...how is prayer a part of the counseling process?

This week on Help and Hope: Ed Welch, Tim Lane and our host Andrew Ray discuss Facebook...is it really a place to keep up with relationships?

Dr. David Powlison and Winston Smith discuss their thoughts on how to approach depression as a biblical counselor.

This week on Help and Hope: Ed Welch, Tim Lane and our host Andrew Ray discuss a recent study which suggests Americans are getting less sleep than Europeans...how might this effect counseling?

Robyn Huck, a counselor from Woodstock, Vermont, tells her story about how the Distance Education classes at CCEF have helped train her to wisely listen and speak into the lives of others in her church and community. For more information, go to CCEF.org/newengland.

This week on Help and Hope: Ed Welch, Tim Lane and our host Andrew Ray discuss an "Ask the Counselor" question from a man who doesn't feel respected by his wife.

This week on Help and Hope: Ed Welch, Tim Lane and our host Andrew Ray discuss a recent study which suggests that men handle breakups differently than women.

David Powlison discusses issues of intimacy in marriage. Part 3 of 3.

David Powlison discusses issues of intimacy in marriage.  Part 2 of 3.

David Powlison discusses issues of intimacy in marriage.  Part 1 of 3.

In Part 1 of this podcast, Dr. Paul Tripp discussed how interpretation is critical to the counseling process especially in making sense of the data that comes with knowing a person. This week he discusses why your counsel must be more than situational and relational fixes. It must be a result of looking at a person’s story through the lens of the biblical story.

This audio is from the Distance Ed version of Helping Relationships taught by Paul Tripp. This class is designed to focus on the person who is counseling, the process of counseling, and the critical skills necessary to effect change. It focuses on how to bring the person and work of the Redeemer to people in the midst of their problems. It is offered 5 times a year through Distance Ed: August, Oct, Jan, April, and June. Ed Welch also teaches this class in PA in the Spring.

How do we make sense out of all that we hear in counseling?

How do we understand what the Bible says to the drama of a particular moment in a person’s life?

Every form of counseling gathers data about a person. And all data gathering needs interpretation to make it worthwhile. It’s the interpretation of the things we get to know about a person that shapes what we say and do in ministry to another. In this two part series, Paul Tripp invites us to think of ministry as a bridge that connects the shore of the Truth of the word of God and the shore of the truths about this person’s reality.

This audio is from the Distance Ed version of Helping Relationships taught by Paul Tripp. This class is designed to focus on the person who is counseling, the process of counseling, and the critical skills necessary to effect change. It focuses on how to bring the person and work of the Redeemer to people in the midst of their problems. It is offered 5 times a year through Distance Ed: August, Oct, Jan, April, and June. Ed Welch also teaches this class in PA in the Spring.

In Part 1 of this podcast, Dr. David Powlison introduced us to Jimmy who is a man classified as suffering from “low self-esteem.” He challenges us to think through how descriptions, masquerading as explanations, often persuade us that they have the truth about understanding people. This week he will discuss why the self-esteem worldview “appears” to create success stories and why the biblical understanding of self-evaluation goes deeper and beyond rehabilitating the fear of man.

This audio is from the Theology and Secular Psychology class. In this class you learn the skills to love others wisely by truly understanding how they think and put their world together.  It is being offered through CCEF’s Distance Education in June of 2010.  Other classes offered in June are: Dynamics of Biblical Change , Helping Relationships [add link to , Counseling in the Local Church [add link, and Marriage Counseling. Please click here to view the DE course schedule for when these courses are also offered additional times of the year.

Meet Jimmy. He is a classic case of someone who would be described as suffering from low self-esteem. What are the implications for saying that someone’s problem is their low self-esteem?

Counselor and author, David Powlison begins to challenge us in thinking through how descriptions masquerading as explanations (i.e. Jimmy’s “low self-esteem”) can be engaged with a biblical worldview. This is the first part of a two part series. (Join us next week for Part 2)

This audio is from the Theology and Secular Psychology class which is being offered through Distance Ed in June ‘10. Other classes offered through Distance Ed in June are: Dynamics of Biblical Change, Helping Relationships, Counseling in the Local Church, and Marriage Counseling. Please click here to view the DE course schedule for when these courses are also offered during other times of the year.

Who am I? I’m an introvert/extrovert.
Who am I? I’m an addict.
Who are the people that I’m talking to? He’s just a liar. She’s a very kind person. This is an ADD child.

One way to get at a person’s view of themselves is to ask the question: What is your personality? There are hundreds of personality tests that we have access to that seem to capture who we are. They can be found in magazines, online quizzes, used in marriage counseling, Facebook, etc. How do terms like “introvert” versus “extrovert” influence our view of who we are? What do we do with these popular terms that seem to capture/identify who we are and yet are not found in Scripture?

Ed Welch teaches a class entitled Human Personality that addresses and challenges these very concerns. For information on the next cohort of this online class, visit: http://www.ccef.org/distance-education-class-schedule or you can register now: http://www.ccef.org/register-now

In Part One of this series, counselor and author David Powlison began to take us on a personal and highly-detailed journey through all the aspects of a counseling relationship, using the case study of "Ann," a woman who is experiencing extreme panic attacks. In part two and part three and part four of this live CCEF training class session, David paused for some questions from his students about dealing with panic and fear. In this final installment of the series, Dr. Powlison discusses the boundaries of the counseling relationship.

In Part One of this series, counselor and author David Powlison began to take us on a personal and highly-detailed journey through all the aspects of a counseling relationship, using the case study of "Ann," a woman who is experiencing extreme panic attacks. In part two and part three of this live CCEF training class session, David paused for some questions from his students about dealing with panic and fear. This week, he fields the question "What's the harm in getting to the gospel early in the counseling encounter?"

In Part One of this series, counselor and author David Powlison began to take us on a personal and highly-detailed journey through all the aspects of a counseling relationship, using the case study of "Ann," a woman who is experiencing extreme panic attacks. In last week's and this week's podcasts of this live CCEF training class session, David pauses for some questions from his students about dealing with panic and fear.

In Part One of this series, counselor and author David Powlison began to take us on a personal and highly-detailed journey through all the aspects of a counseling relationship, using the case study of "Ann," a woman who is experiencing extreme panic attacks. In this week's podcast of this live CCEF training class session, David pauses for some questions from his students about dealing with panic and fear.

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