Could you be a counsellor?

Counselling is a carefully arranged opportunity for people to talk through issues that are affecting their life, with someone trained to help.

ACC defines Christian counselling as activities which “…seek to help people towards constructive change and growth in any or every aspect of their lives, through a caring relationship and within agreed relational boundaries, carried out by a counsellor who has a Christian worldview, values and assumptions”.

You could be developing a counselling ministry if you can say yes to most of the questions below.

Do you find that you are able to help and encourage people as they talk to you?

Do you find people often talk to you about their personal problems?

When people talk to you about their problems do you

Do people talk to you about their deeper problems and you can help them see things differently?

When listening to someone’s problems, do you wish you were better equipped to help them?

If this is for you, a good way to explore if you could become a counsellor is to join ACC and benefit from the help and support of others who are on a similar journey and to take an introduction course, which will help you to explore the subject more fully.

ACC counsellors

ACC does not seek to make all Christian counsellors think the same or counsel in the same way. However, it is expected that an ACC counsellor will have a specifically Christian worldview, working with overall assumptions, implicit or explicit, underpinning his or her counselling.

They should be consistent with:

The Association of Christian Counsellors (ACC) is a registered UK charity. Founded in 1992, it is the leading agency representing the voice of Christian counsellors, and pastoral carers, in the UK: people who feel that God has called them to be equipped to counsel or to care for people.