Faith-Based Healing
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Faith Based Healers are both spiritual lay counselors and trained ministerial, clinical, mental health professions such as Pastoral Thera-pists, who help clients remove blocks to integrate their mind, body and spirit to be more authentic and fulfilled in their daily lives.
Individuals and couples who seek pastoral counseling may or may not have strong religious beliefs. It is the job of the Faith Based Healer or Christian Counselor to help their clients identify the larger lesson or meaning behind their challenges.
Faith based means open to spirit and or belief that in something greater than self supports and nurtures us and our identity is larger than our feelings, thoughts and past experiences. It’s also the belief that “with God all things are possible.” Matthew/19-26.
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Faith Based Healers, such as Pastoral Therapists, are also trained to integrate behavioral sciences and religious/spiritual principles with the therapeutic process. They are specialists in “first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” Matthew 7:5. Faith Based Healers also specialize in integrating mind, body spirit or returning the person to their original wholeness by removing blocks.
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By identifying the nature of one’s disconnection and separation from wholeness, joy, love and aliveness, individuals are able to release themselves from their own limitation and see the Truth in themselves and others and become free (John 8:32) and return to their integrative functioning or original wholeness.
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According to the Pew Research Center, 2012, ” Spiritual beliefs and practices have been determined to be central part of the health and integration of individuals across religious traditions, sexual orientation, races/ethnicities, classes, ages, and genders.
In the United States, 89 percent of adults believe in “God or a universal spirit” (Pew Research Center, 2015), and “worldwide, more than eight-in-ten people identify with a religious group” (Pew Research Center, 2012).”
Unfortunately, according to the latest research from The Association of Pastoral Counselors, only 59 percent of participants in a 2014 study conducted by the Pew Research Center (2015) indicated feeling a sense of spiritual well-being at least once per week.
That means a large percentage of individual are not connected to their sense of spiritual well-being and struggle with issues without a spiritiual perspective.
It is not surprising then that interest in spiritually-integrated counseling and psychotherapy has increased among clients and clinicians (Plante, 2007). Spiritually-integrated mental health care has been shown through empirical research to be effective for individuals experiencing grief, depression, anxiety, and a variety of other presenting problems (Smith, Bartz, & Richards, 2007).
According to a nationwide survey by the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC), 83 percent of Americans believe their spiritual faith and religious beliefs are closely tied to their state of mental and emotional health. Three-fourths say it’s important for them to see a professional counselor who integrates their values and beliefs into the counseling process. (1)
According to a recent Psychology article Observant Americans may feel most comfortable seeking help outside the traditional psychological profession because mental health professionals tend to be less religious and have a deficit of spiritual training which is becoming increasingly more important to the general population.(2)
As viewed by the Pastoral Medical Association,(PMA,) “Faith Based Counseling” (FBC) focuses on the care of the whole person – mental, physical and spiritual – while maintaining ecclesiastical values. The aim of FBC is to help people regain or maintain a sense of hope for their lives founded upon their own spiritual values.
Faith-based healers provide mind, body, spirit integration, healing and counseling services to their clients, combining theology and spirituality with theories of modern behavioral science. Patients who seek faith-based counseling are looking for a counselor who understands the importance of their spiritual beliefs.
People who seek FBC are searching for answers relating to life’s challenges and/or looking for meaning and value in their lives, and open to having their lives transformed and supported in a positive way by learning, acknowledging and adhering to scriptural principles.
If you believe in a mind /body connection and have the faith of a mustard seed you are in the right place to find a fast track to peace of mind. We offer religious and non religious individuals, who aare receptive to looking at life from a spiritual perspective and new way to see themselves and their challenges. FBC may be what you need to break through stuck limiting patterns and beliefs and behavior patterns which keep you from living your life with greater meaning and fulfillment. As a faith based healer and counselor, my goal is to help you learn concrete principles and skills to remove barriers and return you to your natural spiritual wisdom and God given natural state of wholeness.
This practice is licensed by the Pastoral Medical Association
to provide Pastoral Health & Wellness services to our clients.
A NOTE FROM THE PMA
According to the PMA , its mission is to promote lifelong health and well-being. To these ends, the most fundamental purpose and inherent part of our mission is to (a) restore and protect Pastoral Science & Medicine and its fundamental ecclesiastical safe and natural health principles and practices, (b) assure that biblically-sound spiritually based services are offered professionally and ethically for protection and benefit of the general public, (c) protect and advance the rights of spiritually based practitioners who wish to offer these services, and (d) assure access to such services for all those seeking them.
The PMA license and the healthcare services you may receive from Dr. Timothy J. Ryan are completely separate from and not related to, approved by or dependent upon any secular federal or state governmental licensing authority.
SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS:
It is important to realize that PMA licensees do not practice conventional medicine. More specifically, they do not examine, diagnose or treat, or offer to treat or cure or attempt to cure, any mental or physical disease, disorder or illness, or any physical deformity or injury; and PMA licensees do not recommend or prescribe, or recommend changing dosage or discontinuing, any medications or pharmaceutical drugs.
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A NOTE FROM DR. RYAN:

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REFERENCES AND POSSIBLE RESOURCES
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1. PMA web site.https://pmai.us/faith-based-counseling/
2. https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200505/god-my-shrink
3. http://www.aapc.org/page/WhyPastoral Counseling
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