pastoral counseling

American  

noun

1. the use of psychotherapeutic techniques by trained members of the clergy to assist parishioners who seek help for personal or emotional problems.

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Example Sentences

Bryant’s early interest in psychology was rooted in her father’s pastoral counseling.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2023

Active in his church in York, Grumbine also earned his master’s degree in pastoral counseling from Liberty University when he was 80 years old.

From Washington Times • Apr. 28, 2018

She received a master’s degree in English from Albany’s College of St. Rose in 1976 and a master’s degree in pastoral counseling from Baltimore’s Loyola University Maryland in 1990.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2015

He’d been invited to a Fellowship meeting, but had declined, because outside the pulpit and beyond the boundaries of pastoral counseling he was a shy man.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2013

During the opening dinner before the beginning of the sessions, I sat next to a minister who tried to impress me with how much he knew about pastoral counseling.

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