Find healing and restoration.
Grace Biblical Counseling Ministries exist to help hurting people experience healing and restoration through the process of comprehensive, Christ-centered discipleship.
Our counseling comes free of a monetary charge, however, it does require a commitment. We require our counselees to commit to three things:
- Being in biblical community while they’re part of the counseling process.
- Doing the homework that they’re assigned at the end of each session.
- Coming with a humble and teachable attitude.
What is Biblical Counseling?
Biblical counseling could also be described as comprehensive discipleship. We identify the following four elements as integral parts of biblical counseling (or comprehensive discipleship).
Being centered on Christ
Reliant on the ministry of the Holy Spirit
Based on the sufficiency of scripture for all of life’s circumstances
Done in the presence of biblical community
Who do we counsel?
Grace offers counseling for five stages of life:
Individual Counseling
Grace offers biblical counseling to individuals who need help with the personal issues they are struggling with. These issues may include things like fear, depression, loneliness, anger, addictions, eating disorders, self-mutilation, knowing God’s will, suffering and trials.
We also offer a Grief Support Group.
Family Counseling
Grace offers counseling for families who are struggling with any myriad of issues. Parents might find themselves needing help in situations of grief, substance abuse, chronic illness, issues with extended family, a separation or divorce, blended family adjustments, behavior issues and more. We are here to help parents and their children walk through all the peaks and valleys of life in a biblical way.
Marriage Counseling
While marriage is a holy covenant between three parties – a man, woman and God – we understand that men and women have a sin nature that can cause problems in a marriage.These sin issues in a marriage can be, an inability to resolve conflict biblically, inability to compromise, a breakdown in communication, role confusion or frustration, struggles with addictions, struggles with pornography, deceitfulness, unresolved conflict over parenting styles, an affair and more. When we fail to abide in Christ and seek our own solutions to these problems, we often make our situation worse, which puts a greater strain on the marriage. These marriage issues can become very painful and lead to anger, depression, loneliness, bitterness, isolation and brokenness. Grace’s marriage counseling is prepared to help couples get back on track and find hope, healing and restoration for their marriage.
Financial Counseling
Whether you struggle with budgeting or you are in deep financial trouble we have people and resources to help you respond biblically to your situation.
We offer a Biblical Finances Class in which we lay a biblical foundation for stewarding our time, talent and finances as an act of worship to Jesus. The Biblical Finances Class is a great starting place for building a foundation, asking good questions and learning how to do money management God’s way.
We also offer one-on-one financial counseling for those individuals or couples who need critical help with their finances. In one-on-one counseling, we teach the theology of finances in addition to providing tools and accountability to help realign individual financial situations.
Premarital Counseling
All of our premarital counseling begins as part of a premarital counseling class. Grace offers an eight-week class twice per year, and each class is one hour. This class is for couples who are preparing for marriage or who have never had premarital counseling. We will look at all aspects of God’s design for marriage and give biblical evaluation tools to help you determine if you are ready to be married. This fun, interactive class will help you evaluate your relationship and help you grow deeper in your walk with Christ and community.
GriefShare Groups
A GriefShare support group is a safe, welcoming place where people understand the difficult emotions of grief. Through this 14-week group, you’ll discover what to expect in the days ahead and what’s “normal” in grief. Since there are no neat, orderly stages of grief, you’ll learn helpful ways of coping with grief, in all its unpredictability—and gain solid support each step of the way.
Get Counseling
Please select the option that best describes you to get started.
Ongoing education is important, and we are here to support you!
View our online resources or the resource center in our foyer, where you can browse and purchase books, booklets, and other resources. If you need more information or have a question, please get in touch with our counseling team via email.
Counseling Partners
Eastern Iowa Biblical Counseling Coalition
The Eastern Iowa Biblical Counseling Coalition (EIBCC) exists to equip the body of Christ through conferences, retreats, meetings, educational resources and on-site training for the glory of God and the furtherance of His kingdom.
Journey Counseling Services
Journey Counseling Services (JCS) is a ministry that serves women, children, and couples. Counseling is provided by Licensed Mental Health Counselors with a combined experience of over 30 years. A biblical, solution-focused approach to counseling is used with a focus on helping clients to see themselves and their circumstances through God’s eyes. Counseling is focused on the here and now and driven by goals which are set in a collaborative process between client and counselor. Hope and compassion are the hallmarks of the counseling relationship at JCS.