Prayer Counselling
We offer online and in-person prayer counselling in Kitchener-Waterloo and throughout Ontario. This form of counselling is for clients who want to integrate their faith and spiritual beliefs into their healing process. It is ideal for clients desiring healing from past hurts, generational patterns and spiritual woundedness.
What is Prayer Counselling?
Prayer counselling is a form of therapeutic ministry that is designed to heal false beliefs about a person's identity and relationships, while helping them connect with their inner spiritual self.
This form of counselling uses prayer to identify past hurts and work through them. Prayer counselling involves asking God to help us submit to the logical and spiritual process of going back to the root memory of these unhealthy beliefs and patterns so that truth can be revealed. Only God, who transcends time and space, can 'go with us' to these past places of hurt and bring revelation to the situation or memory.
During Prayer counselling, the counsellor creates a supportive and trusting space where the client can explore their emotions and ask the Lord to guide them to past memories. During prayer, the client may experience visions, images, words of knowledge, or inner feelings that shift their interpretation of the past situation and bring a new understanding of their own identity.
How Does Prayer Counselling Help?
Prayer counselling can help to identify and remove blocks that hinder a client’s progress – in therapy and in life.
Through this intentional prayer approach, clients often discover that their behaviours are rooted in patterns that have been in their family for generations. Once this is revealed, people report great freedom in breaking off these generational ties and are able to make different, healthy choices for their life.
Prayer counselling can also heal the source of feelings of shame and worthlessness in a person's life. Once this is addressed, clients are freed up from compulsive behaviours or thoughts that they previously relied on to avoid triggering situations.
With new understanding and insights, clients are able to work with their therapist to foster healthy beliefs and the tools they need to repair the damage that these lies and patterns have caused.
What is a Prayer Counselling Session Like?
Before beginning a prayer counselling session, the counsellor and client discuss expectations and the process of prayer ministry.
The role of the counsellor is to ensure a safe and supportive environment and open communication with the client. During the process, the counsellor can help to monitor the emotional state of the client, offering support or help to safely pause the experience if needed.
Although every session will look different, a session of prayer counselling will follow a basic structure of:
- Inviting Jesus to walk with the client back into past hurts, memories, traumas, and betrayals.
- Asking Jesus to show the client the lies he/she believed as a result of the past hurt.
- Identifying the negative feelings associated with these lies.
- Developing an understanding of where Jesus was while the hurt was occurring.
- Receiving and declaring the truth that Jesus reveals to the client’s heart that gives him/her a better view of the “bigger picture.”
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Prayer Counselling
Experience a form of counselling where you can engage your faith and spirituality as you address trauma, generational patterns, addictions, and emotional woundedness.