What we provide on this website.  We provide thirteen of our degree level courses as taught at Word of Life Counseling Training Institute during 2007-2009 on the links at the left.  These courses cover all the material you need to know to effectively help others in and outside of the church.  Each course consists of 10 classes of approximately 45 minutes each of video training.   Although these courses are made available to anyone free of charge on this website on an audit basis, they also may be taken for credit by fulfilling the course requirements listed on the syllabus as part of one of our low-cost certifications or degree programs. 

Below is a description of the first five basic counseling video courses available on the links on the left side of this page and their associated text books.  They provide the essential core courses of our curriculum. 

Faith Therapy--Understanding salvation by faith and resolving deeply-rooted problems.  This book and course provide a psychological understanding of the process of salvation by faith, winning the trial of your faith, how to increase faith, how to assess faith, and how to apply it to meet our deepest needs for self-worth, significance, security, and love.  It includes models for conquering the common problems of low self-image, pride, selfish desires, strife, fear, spiritual oppression, lust, and for developing healthy attachment.  It is  easily taught and applied in churches because it is completely based on the Bible.                

Text Book description:  The number of dysfunctional and emotionally hurting people in our society and in our churches is rapidly increasing.  Even though God has called His church to “heal the brokenhearted and set the captive free,” the large majority of our pastors and churches are failing to effectively meet this need.  The Christian counseling community itself continues to be embroiled in controversy as to what Christian counseling should be and to what extent it should be based on the Bible.  The Greek word for salvation in the Bible means more than God’s gift of eternal life:  it also includes healing and complete wholeness; mind, emotions, will, and spirit in this lifetime.  If, as the Bible clearly states, we are saved or made whole by faith, then it only makes sense that salvation by faith should be the foundation of any wholly Christian therapy.  Faith Therapy provides a new narrative Biblical approach for helping these hurting people that can be easily applied by pastors and implemented in the church, integrates Christian counseling within the context of salvation by faith, applies faith to bring deep psychological healing, and develops methods for using faith to resolve many common, yet deeply-rooted problems.  

Faith Therapy book by Dr. Reiner $18.99 

Faith Therapy Wideangle DVD Set $85.00

Effective Counseling and Life Coaching Skills--Learn the basic skills necessary to counsel and coach.  This course teaches the essential communication skills, analysis methods, and ethics necessary to help people.  It uses the Basis Attending Skills book and the AACC Ethical Code as its primary text books.  Quite a number of in-class exercises and take home assignments are used to give you  actual experience attending, asking powerful questions, reflecting feelings, confronting,  connecting, analyzing problems, and resolving ethical dilemmas.

Text book description:  This is the original book on which most communication skills programs are based. This book is clear and precise and widely used for college courses for beginning interviewing training.  It is one of the most practical books on communication skills existing.  By the time a person finishes this book, he or she will be able to conduct a full interview using only listening skills.

 

 

 

 

AACC Ethical Code may be obtained at no cost at Http://aacc.net/wp-images/fammed/aacc_code_of_ethics.doc.  

Effective Counseling and Life Coaching wideangle 5 DVD Set $85.00

 

Transformation!--Biblical Models for counseling some of Life's most difficult and complex problems in the church. This book and course contains many new insights including a comprehensive plan for Christian counseling derived directly from the Bible, in-depth biblical answers for complex psychological problems based on the types and shadows interpretation of biblical stories, models and quick reference guides for counseling 20 of the most difficult problems in the church today.

Text book description:  Our society and churches are facing an increasing number of dysfunctional and emotionally hurting people with difficult, long-term psychological problems.  Healing for these problems requires more than a few words of advice or some solution-focused therapy; it requires a life transformation.  Unfortunately, most pastors and church counselors do not have in-depth Biblical answers for these complex problems.  Consequently, most churches refer these problems to counselors outside of the church who rely primarily on secular counseling methods and theories, or psychoactive drugs.  What is needed is a simple, yet in-depth, Biblical method for overcoming these complex problems that can be easily applied by pastors and counselors within the church.  This book provides just such a method with a new narrative Biblical approach for therapy and in-depth answers for counseling many of these difficult problems.  This new method is developed directly from the Bible, relies on the overall direction of the Holy Spirit, and is based on Biblical truth derived from the stories of the lives of well-known Biblical characters.  The final conclusion of this book is that God has provided in His Word, through the types and shadows interpretation of these stories, all that is required to meet these desperate needs. 

Transformation Book by Dr. Reiner $18.99

 

Transformation wideangle 5 DVD Set  $85.00

 

Revelations That Will Set You Free--An eight step roadmap for spiritual growth.  This book and course material includes a summary of biblical growth models and Old and New Testament revelations of the character of God, a comprehensive explanation of each of the eight steps of spiritual growth found in 2 Peter Chapter 1, and a biblical character model demonstrating how each is to be achieved so that you and others can grow spiritually and psychologically toward maturity.   

Text book description:  Salvation begins with faith but many Christians are frustrated trying to live the Christian life in this world.  They want to serve Christ but find that they fail again and again in their attempts to get victory over sin, overcome the flesh, die to the self, and love others.  Most have no definite idea of how these goals are to be achieved.  This should not be the case because the Bible gives us a clear road map to spiritual and psychological maturity; it is accomplished revelation by revelation as we grow in our knowledge of God.  It is not enough to have the knowledge of God in our minds or even to love Him with our emotions—faith must grow in our spirit.  Only through this kind of faith is it possible to overcome our selfishness, develop the self-discipline necessary to conquer sin, and achieve a life of peace motivated by unconditional love.  This book clearly and concretely explains each step in this process, identifies the spiritual revelations required, and provides methods and models for assisting us in moving to the next step.  The goal of this book is to remove the mystery that shrouds the process of spiritual and psychological growth so that the path to spiritual maturity can be clearly seen and followed. 

Revelations That Will Set You Free Book by Dr. Reiner  $18.99

 

Revelations wideangle 5 DVD Set  $85.00

 

Principles for Life--Using biblical principles to resolve problems not directly addressed in the Bible.  This book and course explains 44 of the most important principles in the Bible from a psychological perspective and provides an in-depth method for developing counseling plans using biblical principles for common psychological problems based on Proverbs Chapter 3. This material includes a discussion of 13 classical methods of biblical change, a new model for understanding the human heart called "The Train of Psychological Wholeness," and techniques for applying biblical principles in counseling.  It includes counseling plans and methods for treating anxiety, panic attacks, obsessions, compulsions, sexual abuse, domestic violence, marital problems, and Borderline Personality Disorder.

Text book description:  Our world is full of hurting people.  The Word of God is the answer but somehow attempts to apply biblical principles to bring psychological healing have fallen short of the deeper needs of many of these hurting people.  This has been true for several reasons.  Most models of biblical change have been limited to either confronting and demanding change, or acting and practicing new biblical ways of doing things.  These methods do not deal with the entire person:  will, spirit, past experiences, mind, perceptions, needs, motivation, actions, and emotions.  They do not take into account the complexity of the human heart and the interactions between its members.  This book addresses these problems through the use of the “Train of Psychological Wholeness,” a concept developed from Proverbs Chapter 3.  It provides an understanding of a large number of these principles, a detailed method for developing counseling plans using biblical principles, and counseling methods and techniques for their application in order to bring about dynamic psychological healing.

Principles for Life Book by Dr. Reiner  $18.99

 

Principles wideangle 5 DVD Set  $85.00

 

Basic theory of the material presented.  The material in these courses are derived directly from the Bible and are based on the process of salvation by faith.  Biblical stories and principles are used in order to understand the problems and offer solutions.  For more information visit our curriculum and resources website www.faiththerapy.org.

Additional Text books are available on each course page of this website. Unfortunately, we cannot afford to offer these books free of charge.

 

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      Our Mission

To train the body of Christ to more effectively help the spiritually unfulfilled, underachieving, emotionally and psychologically hurting people in our churches and in our society. 

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Contact Information for Word of Life Counseling Training Institute

Curriculum and resources website:  www.faiththerapy.org

Counseling Center Website:  www.wordoflifecounselingcenter.com

Church Website:  www.wolm.org

Telephone

316-838-9200 or 316-619-5589

FAX

316-838-0567

Postal address

3811 N. Meridian Avenue, Wichita, KS 67204 USA

Electronic mail

General Information:  treiner@wolm.org
Webmaster: treiner@wolm.org  

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          Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.  1 John 4:11