How To Be A Healing Listener for Friends and Family

July 15, 2009 - PRLog -- While providing a basic overview, the ideas and descriptions guide the reader above the basic level while maintaining a clear explanation of how counseling works. The treasure of practical skills and concepts will assist both the student and the interested lay person looking for ways to help friends and family who face common and difficult life challenges. The range of the situations includes grief and loss, solving conflict, dealing with depression, and much more.

The style of the manual is conversational with numerous examples of the wording of helpful statements. The motivated reader will learn how to be a healing listener and what to say to someone who is crying, how to help a person arrive at solutions to problems, and how to become assertive.

This book not only helps a person become a healing listener, but has a healing effect simply by reading it.

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Counselor Publishing at http://www.counsellorpublishing.com presents titles in counseling, theology, and church history. Examples include Effective Counseling Skills at https://www.createspace.com/3384101 and The Lost Mystery of Baptism at https://www.createspace.com/3378116 The author has been a counselor and psychotherapist over 30 years, founded the National Professional Counselors Association and Counsellor Training Institute expanding to five cities and is the President of the National Registry of Counselors and the College of Mental Health Counseling. Having traveled extensively to Europe, a particular interest is the developmental theology of baptism and baptismal basins in the ancient and medieval period. He has documented hundreds of these and included numerous photographs in recent publications such as "Ancient and Medieval Baptismal Fonts."