TrustHisCare: Pastoral Counselling Services
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In pastoral counselling, the Christian community tries to help the Faithful by bringing together the resources and insights of the Christian tradition with the insights of modern psychology. Sometimes a person’s understanding of their spiritual beliefs can contribute to them feeling stuck. At other times, the person’s spirituality is an underutilized resource that can support their psychological and relational health and wellbeing. Pastoral counselling creates an opportunity to explore a person’s belief systems, and the extent to which it can be used to activate positive changes in their lives.
Pastoral counselling is available to interested persons who practice the Catholic Faith. If requested, the counsellor will have a Faith-sensitive discussion with interested persons from other religions that explores options for referrals for Faith-based counselling, where the counsellor is not adequately trained.
In pastoral counselling, the Christian community tries to help the Faithful by bringing together the resources and insights of the Christian tradition with the insights of modern psychology. Sometimes a person’s understanding of their spiritual beliefs can contribute to them feeling stuck. At other times, the person’s spirituality is an underutilised resource that can support their psychological and relational health and wellbeing. Pastoral counselling creates an opportunity to explore a person’s belief systems, and the extent to which it can be used to activate positive changes in their lives.
Pastoral counselling is available to interested persons who practice the Catholic Faith. The counsellor will have a Faith-sensitive discussion with interested persons from other religions that explores options for referrals for Faith-based counselling, where the counsellor is not adequately trained.
Do you feel like you are alone? God has deserted you in your pain? Are you struggling with how you feel about God? Are you angry with Him or questioning Him and then feel guilty?
Are you confused about what your Faith says about the issue you are struggling with?
As a pastoral counsellor, I have found that Sharon Bermudez is deeply rooted in the Catholic tradition yet, apparently so well-formed in psychotherapy that she brings just the right balance of faith and practicality in helping persons who may, or may not be religious to handle the challenges that they may face.
Father Dexter Brereton, CSSp ThM STL
Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Seminary of St John Vianney and the Uganda Martyrs, Trinidad
Parish Priest, Parish of St Francis of Assisi, Erin, Trinidad
