Therapeutic Values
We believe in:
- A client’s right to self-determination in personal goal-setting and honoring of the client’s Adaptive Information Processing (AIP).
- The responsibility of therapists and of professional organizations to not impose personal religious, philosophical or political biases upon their clients.
- The right of a client to choose the application and integration of Christian biblical principles in their counseling and therapy.
- The pursuit of excellence in therapeutic practice, where Christian EMDR therapists are committed to professional development and expertise via training and professional consultation, to provide optimal levels of integrated care for their clients.
- Maintaining ethical practice according to professional standards, including but not limited to, client autonomy, honoring personhood, beneficence, and nonmaleficence.
- The responsibility of therapists to care for themselves, including addressing their own spiritual, emotional, and relational health, healing and growth. This includes personal virtue, character development, and self- responsibility.
- Professional excellence characterized by integrity, respect, care and compassion.
Statement of Faith
As Christians We Believe
We believe there is One eternal God, the Creator of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally co-existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is the God of the Bible and He is the sustainer of all things.
We believe the Bible is divinely inspired and inerrant, and God’s revelation of Himself to humanity. The Bible serves as the active, divine authoritative guide for faith, belief, and living.
We believe that God is perfectly sovereign and perfectly good.
We believe by His Word that God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female. However, mankind willfully sinned and rebelled, fell, and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God.
We believe the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God, is fully God, and has always existed without beginning or end. He became human born of a virgin and conceived by the Holy Spirit. He lived a sinless life, teaching, healing and performing miracles, wonders, and signs. He died on the Cross to account for the sin of mankind, reconcile us back to Himself and to defeat all enemy, sin and death. He rose from the grave and is alive, and reigns. We believe salvation and eternal life is only found through faith in Him. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. According to His Word, Jesus is returning to make all things new.
As believers, He has given us His Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit is given as a deposit into a believer’s life upon salvation, making the presence of Jesus Christ real in believers. The Holy Spirit provides regeneration and renewal, comforting, guiding, educating, convicting, empowering, and enabling believers to live in ways that honor Christ.
