After taking a quick look to the Counseling guide in L9, I decided to Google more about counseling to expand my conceptual framework.
So I noticed that there is something like a continuum...
Christian Life Coaching: goals, score cards, key performance indicators, work breakdown structure, planning keeping in sight strengths and weaknesses, etc. Maybe working with a normal healthy individual to work in specific areas to achieve more of their potential.
Could this be related to stewardship areas, and basic obstacles can be identified and planned to be overcome:
Pastor G. Nunez gave an example of a stewardship topical list in a Christian TV program in 2011 (Aqui entre nos): [translated roughly]
Words of my mouth
assets
time
marital status: single, married
abilities / talents
gifts
family (raises children and loves wife)
local church: community / evangelism
physical body
personal salvation
Earth (environment etc.)
Deeper issues: traumas, mental health issues, unresolved conflict, etc. more related to therapy...
Some may be basic and not to hard to find, explore, and allow counseled person, to be aware, understand and help come up with a plan of action.
Then there are deeper issues, that definitively need professional help of a certified therapist, where supposedly deep unconscious stuff needs to be explored and dealt with.
Deliverance ministry: some stuff is not related to potential, and actualization of gifts, and talents, neither about deep buried unconscious stuff needing pro therapy, but are actually serious spiritual problems, that need deliverance ministry.
In your knowledge are there resources that clearly explain the relation between:
Christian life coaching: christian development according to pious dreams put by God in believers, that includes responsible stewardship.
Counseling from a Christian perspective, making sure that beliefs, orthopraxis, and the like are aligned with the Christian worldview.
Therapy (psycho, etc), that allows easy cases to be explored from different angles to gain insight and way forward for betterment. Also that explains when more medically oriented help is needed due to the severity of the mental health condition developing.
And delivery ministry, that many times proves effective when the above cannot deliver the results expected.
I found the following:
https://www.logos.com/product/192626/transformative-encounters-the-intervention-of-god-in-christian-counseling-and-pastoral-care
So besides other resources that come to your mind, it would be also good to read about your opinion on the topic and any experiences.
https://www.logos.com/product/186205/a-divine-revelation-of-deliverance
