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Marriage & Family Counseling

This course will prepare you as a care counselor to profoundly impact the lives of families and marriages, fostering relationships that reflect God’s love and purpose.
  • Duration:  30 hours 
  • Instructor:  Timothy Lloyd, Ph.D., D. Min., LMFT

Welcome!

Welcome to our Marriage and Family Counseling course! In today’s fast-paced and often fragmented world, the foundation of strong, healthy relationships is more critical than ever. This course is designed to equip you with essential skills, biblical insight, and practical tools to guide couples and families toward healing, growth, and lasting connection.
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Course Description

In this course, we will explore attachment styles and biblical truths, examining how emotional bonding patterns influence relationship dynamics. Starting with God's original design for relationships as revealed in the book of Genesis, we’ll unpack foundational biblical principles of marriage and their practical applications in today’s context. Drawing on the latest findings from modern marriage research, we’ll bridge timeless truth with contemporary strategies to help couples build strong, resilient marriages.

Whether you're a seasoned counselor or a layperson stepping into this ministry, this course will empower you with the confidence, compassion, and competence to walk alongside couples and families in their journey toward restoration and wholeness.

  • Self-Paced

    Discover your role as a care counselor at your own pace and develop foundational counseling skills and integrate a faith-based perspective into your practices through a blend of theoretical learning and practical application.

  • Interactive

    Engage in interactive modules, videos, activities, and reflections throughout the course to enhance your understanding of faith-based counseling practices.

  • Faith-Based

    Integrate biblical principles and deepen your understanding of faith-centered counseling to provide compassionate, ethical services within a Christian context.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, the learner will be able to: 
Explain God’s original design for marriage and apply biblical principles to support marriages.
Identify key attachment styles and understand how they shape marital and family relationships.
Apply effective counseling techniques and strategies specifically tailored to address issues faced by couples and families in a Christian context.
Facilitate transformative sessions by helping couples build trust, commitment, and relational intimacy through specific techniques.
Implement therapeutic interventions that are grounded in Christian values while being sensitive to diverse family backgrounds and needs.
Integrate modern relationship research with biblical truths to help couples grow in emotional and spiritual connection.

Course Information 

Prerequisites

  • Foundations in Biblical Counseling
  • Biblical Counseling Skills I
  • Biblical Counseling Skills II

  Course Instructor

Timothy Lloyd, Ph.D., D. Min., LMFT

  Additional Textbooks

  • Biblical Reference Guide for the Gottman Method by David Penner and Laura Heck
  • The Four Relationship Styles: How Attachment Theory Can Help You in Your Search for Lasting Love by Dr. Anita Knight Kuhnley and Dr. Eric Scalise. 

Required Textbooks

  • Created for Connection: The "Hold Me Tight" Guide for Christian Couples by Dr. Sue Johnson

Required Textbooks

  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John M. Gottman, PhD                               

 

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Created for Connection:
The "Hold Me Tight" Guide for Christian Couples

by Dr. Sue Johnson

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

by John M. Gottman, PhD 
   

Biblical Reference Guide for the Gottman Method

by David Penner and Laura Heck

The Four Relationship Styles: Attachment Theory

by Dr. Anita Knight Kuhnley & Dr. Eric Scalise. 

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Note: In this course, the terms 'care counselor, 'lay counselor,' and 'biblical counselor' are used interchangeably to represent individuals trained to provide support and guidance based on Christian principles. While each term may carry specific connotations in different contexts, for this training, they all refer to the same role of offering compassionate and biblically based counseling to those in need.

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