Vocational Ramblings

Around this time last summer, I believe, I was in utter despair that I had not been selected for the CCEF internship. And then I went to visit a professor friend who helped set me up with the counseling gig in Elmer, NJ, which commenced last August and has been almost one full year [...]

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Joyce Meyer

Dear Readers, your participation is requested!
I have a counselee, a dear Christian woman, who loves the Lord, reads Scripture, and is eager to grow in her faith. She consistently listens to Joyce Meyer on TV, attends her conferences, and reads her books. I am unfamiliar with Meyer but know that she is from [...]

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Surprised by Faith: Finding my Voice

I have not journaled here on Vox very much about my counseling internship, mostly due to being extremely busy. I hope to be more intentional about making time to reflect on what I’m learning.
One thing I’m certain the Lord is teaching me now is faith. I have been wrestling quite a bit with [...]

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Concerning Depression

This week I counseled with a woman who is severely depressed - the sort of depression that keeps a person in bed most days. I will avoid posting any details in such a public forum, but let us say that the broad contours of her life give her many reasons to be sad. [...]

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Counseling Internship Update

Well, here’s the scoop for those who we haven’t had a chance to tell yet. (I’m afraid it may a bit anti-climatic at this point, but good news all the same.) I have the opportunity to work in a physician’s office, one day a week, counseling patients he has referred to me. The doctor is [...]

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A Real Success, All Joking Aside

I will leave it to her to blog all the details, but Rachel had a wonderfully positive meeting with a member of the CCEF faculty yesterday, who gave her some excellent recommendations on where to find counseling experience. To her surprise and flattery, before they met he had even contacted some organizations informally connected with [...]

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Internship Update: Disappointed, but Hopeful

I have a little news to share regarding the counseling internship for which I applied this semester: I was not selected. I received notice of this sad news about a week ago, and to tell the truth, I was heartbroken. I had been so looking forward to an opportunity to deepen my relationship with CCEF [...]

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"Don’t Talk About Jesus For One Week"

This was the advice my professor gave in a counseling session to one concerned father of a teenage daughter. Sound like Biblical Counseling to you? Perhaps not, but it turned out to be excellent advice, and here’s why.
Ed (my professor) explained that this father-daughter relationship was strained, at the breaking point. The daughter was distant, [...]

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Nearing the Finish Line

I woke up this morning dreaming about selecting a Westminster class ring. Westminster doesn’t have class rings to my knowledge! - but I think I have graduation on the brain. One set of Monday night classes down, 2 to go; three more weeks of Thursday night classes, then finals. Almost there!
Since the next three weeks [...]

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Worldview Collision

My Declaration of Self-Esteem
by Virginia Satir
I AM ME
In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me
Everything that comes out of me is authentically me
Because I alone chose it - I own everything about me
My body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions,
Whether they be to others or to myself - [...]

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