This is what Gospel-Centered therapy is.
As professional therapists who love the Lord, we are cultivating the ground for God’s seed to grow. Trauma, shame, and judgment fall like thorns and rocks on the ground. Therapy safely rakes, weeds and removes the thorns so that God’s seed can grow. Therapy is discipleship and relational evangelism. But it begins as simply providing a safe relationship and a secure attachment for our clients (often for the first time), much like how our relationship with Jesus begins.
Jesus is the Great Counselor - therapists are simply the conduit for his manifestation.
Last year Cumberland Counseling gave away $30,000 in scholarships to our clients of a lower income! We don’t turn anyone away just for finances.
We have a fundraiser coming up on Oct 8th so we can give away even more next year!
Watch this video below to hear why we have these fundraisers!
Will you partner with this incredible work in our community by donating or becoming a Sponsor of the event?
You can donate any amount, and we have lots of different sponsor levels, all with good marketing for you or your business!!
We are just over half way to our fundraising goal for this year and our 1-mile Fun Run & Fall Festival is coming up fast! Last year we gave away $30,000 and this year we plan to give away even more! Aren’t you excited to play a part in this incredible gift to our communities, at a time when mental health is top of mind for us all.
For example, $1000 covers ~14 clients in ongoing therapy. Here’s how you can Sponsor. We love bragging on God’s goodness through our generous Partners.
Sponsorship levels:
“Helper” is $250 (shout outs in person on race day, logo on our website and social media)
“Peacemaker” $500 (gets on our tshirts plus everything above)
“Reformer” $1000 (gets on our race day banner, plus everything above)
“Transformer” is $2000 (logo on our website for the entire year! Plus everything above)
Use the camera on a smart phone to scan the QR code below which will take you directly to the site on which you can register AND donate. And even if you can’t donate this year, don’t forget to register to come to the Fun Run and Fall Festival on Oct 8th from 3-5pm at Cumberland Community Church in Smyrna (live band, food trucks, bouncy houses, face painting, raffles!). You’ll get a free, super comfy t shirt too. See you there!
There are people who would come to counseling who would never step foot in a church. That’s why the church should be leading the way in providing therapy to the community. For some, grief and imbedded trauma blocks our ability to see God because the emotions are too powerful.
Surviving trauma is like sitting in a basement with the curtains drawn. The sun never went away but it’s really difficult to see because it’s buried.
A counselor holds intimate space for a person, hears their story, and eventually walks down the stairs to the basement with them, hand-in-hand, to help them courageously take that first step to re-open the curtains and live in the sun again.
And that’s what Gospel-Centered therapy is.
Become a partner with us in this incredible work today.
