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treatment of mental health conditions according to the faith-based approach2. A Christian
counselor while doing intake and assessment of new client faces several issues and require skills
and needs a set of goals to be accomplished. The current analysis has been drawn from own
counseling experience as a Christian Counselor. Christian counselors sole goal is in undertaking
and using faith-based principles along with psychological instruction. The goal is to enable
better management and resolution of issues in individual lives. As a Christian Counselor and a
mental health professional, it not only concerns to assess, diagnose and treatment of mental
illness, rather clients need to be taught coping skills. This would enable the client to better adjust
to changes occurring in their lives.
Issues that a Christian counselor more likely to face includes feeling incompetent when
the client's do not want to get counseled. May Christian counselors lack control over their
clients' experiences and attitude3. This often leads to feeling helplessness, incompetency or being
poorly prepared. Moreover, a high demanding job such as counseling requires perspective by
releasing self from responsibility and results to change lives. Pastors that counsel their
parishioners need to pay close attention towards experiences. Christian counselor needs to
believe that God is the change agent and not them. This assists them in cases when client's they
are counseling do not make quick progress. Christian counselors need to internally pray for
guidance with respect for helping their counselees. They cannot solely rely upon their own
intuition, training, and experience.
The second pertinent issues faced by a Christian counselor is caring about hours.
Christian counselors often fail to leave the client’s problems at their offices. Most of them walk
2 Julie Q. Morrison, Stacy M. Clutter, Elaine M. Pritchett, and Alan Demmitt, ‘Perceptions of
clients and counseling professionals regarding spirituality in counseling.’ Counseling and Values,
53, no. 3 (2009): 183-194
3 Marie Morrison and William A. Borgen, ‘How Christian spiritual and religious beliefs help and
hinder counselors' empathy toward clients.’ Counseling and Values, 55, no. 1 (2010): 25-45

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