Counseling FAQ

1. Where are your counseling services located?
   The DMW Network offers in person and zoom video conferencing for those who live in the US.

2. What are your beliefs?
   We believe in one true God, eternally revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human. We believe that Scripture is inspired by God and provides the foundation for our faith, our lives, and our ministry.

3. Do you offer insurance?
   Since biblical counseling is not considered licensed counseling, we do not take insurance. For more information regarding our services please email us at BrendaBHBC@gmail.com or call us at 508-745-3417 

4. Do you do couples counseling?
   We do not offer ongoing couples counseling as Daughters Made Whole only counsels women, but we are happy to talk with you about marital issues and difficulties personally, or provide 1-2 sessions for couples desiring mediation support for conflicts.

5. Do you offer crisis services?
   We do not offer crisis services. Please dial 911 if you are having a medical or psychiatric emergency.

6. Do you offer drop-in counseling services?
   At this time we do not offer drop-in counseling. However, we are open Monday- Saturday for counseling services and will do our best to get you into a counseling session as soon as we can.

7. What is Biblical Counseling?
   Biblical Counseling is the process where the Bible, God’s Word, is applied to a person individually or persons who are struggling under the weight of personal sin, various difficulties and or suffering, so that he or she may experience biblical change in their inner being resulting in looking more like Christ. 
   Biblical Counseling.....

   • Helps you care for your physical, emotional, and spiritual self.

   • Helps you understand your suffering and grieve it appropriately.

   • Helps you reframe your suffering story in light of God’s redemptive story.

   • Helps you to establish clear and healthy goals.

   • Helps you learn to trust God over feelings.

   • Helps to connect you with solid support networks.

   • Helps you identify your sin and understand its origin, motive, and triggers.

   • Helps you grow in repentance.

   • Helps you restructure your life to fight temptation.

   • Helps to provide you with a deeper sense of peace, joy and security.

-Trusts the Bible in its claim that it addresses all issues concerning life and godliness and therefore it declares itself to be a sufficient and an authoritative resource to address everything essential for counseling conversations (2 Pet 1:3-4)

-Shares wisdom to those living in a fallen world to help them face their problems  (Prov 19:20)

-Biblical counselors counsel out of the conviction that the theological content of Scripture
defines and directs the conversational content of counseling.

-Consist of subject matter in counseling conversations that shares wisdom for life’s problems, and is not a discipline that is fundamentally informed by science, but by the teaching found in God’s Word.

- Acknowledges and depends on the Holy Spirit as the means of optimal success in change because of the presence and power of the spirit is needed to experience change that honors God (John 16:7-13)

-Counseling that desires the kind of powerful change ensured by the Spirit, who works through God’s word, and so counseling that utilizes the Scriptures (Eph 1:17-19).

-Counsel that desires the kind of powerful change ensured by the Holy Spirit. Counseling that consistently points to Jesus Christ (John 16:14)

-Counsel that knows the authority and sufficiency of Scripture does not mean counseling that uses Scripture will remove all difficulties since we live in a fallen world.

-A ministry that counsels in the light of the reality that it’s not necessarily God’s intention to resolve all problems in this life but counsels the person to thrive in the midst of trials in a way that honors Christ (Rev 21:1-4).