Our counseling efforts are a ministry of the church for the church. We do not charge anything for our counseling services. If anyone feels led to give an offering of thanks for the help received, you may give a donation to the church on our church giving page.

Redemption City Church puts a high value on membership in order to know who we are most responsible to hold accountable to Christ and to give primary focus in our discipleship efforts. While RBC is primarily a ministry to the members of the church, we will not turn away those from other churches or any from the community.

Most counseling relationships will start with an intake that helps us get all of the basic information we need to get right into helping you. Our intake coordinator will contact you for further detail in order to match you with the counselor who would be the most helpful.

The first couple of sessions will simply be listening to you to understand your background and the issue you are dealing with. We will then spend time laying a foundation of biblical truths that give us a solid footing to build a more stable biblical vision to help you work toward.

Because we think counseling best finds its success in a community of like-minded, same-focused people, we ask that all of our clients commit to regulary, weekly attendance at our Sunday worship to reinforce the biblical truths explained in counseling and to find other relationships to encoruage you in your walk toward wholeness.

We don’t claim to be experts in every method of counseling, thereapy, pscychology, or psychiatry. We believe that the Bible and God’s Spirit provide all we need for life and godliness (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:3). But sometimes other interventions are necessary to address potential challenges that we are not equipped or skilled to provide help for.

Our counselors have a network of other relationships with professionals in the medical fields, government social services, para-church support ministries, and other licensed therapists to refer clients for additional support depending on your specific needs.

Our goal is to lay a biblical foundation, build a stable community of helpful relationships, cast a vision of fruitfulness in Christ, and walk with you in faith toward that vision. As we do that and we find opportunities to pull other professionals near to gain valuable support.

We avoid the phrase “Christian counseling” because it is too vague. It can mean biblical counseling or it can simply mean someone who calls himself a Christian is doing the counseling (but may never reference Scripture). We want to be clear about what our counseling goals are in meeting with you.

When we say “biblical counseling” we are stating that we strive to bring the Bible to bear in every situation. We will open the Bible and seek its truth to speak into every conversation.

So much of this world’s sorrow is caused by sin (whether ours or someone else’s). Sin causes brokenness and suffering. Adam’s sin began all creation groaning. Our neighbors’ sins affect us. Our sin blinds us. The goal of biblical counseling is to see how sin causes our struggle and how we run to false gods to solve our problems. Then we strive to show how Christ has overcome sin, oppression, and suffering in his death and ressurreciton. He provides his word and his Spirit to help us stand firm in the face of trials and temptations. so that we can overcome our struggles and even become an instrument of redemption in others’ lives.