Spirituality in Counseling

The Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC) and the American Counseling Association (ACA) has endorsed core competencies to address spiritual and religious issues in counseling. This led Dr. Sharon H. Harrell, LPCMH to write this based on research and current professional literature. The methods this book explore foster healing, growth, and well-being; a common goal of counseling and spirituality. For mental health professionals, the therapeutic process centers on the individual client and warrants careful attention to address the client's beliefs and frame of reference to create interventions that should be tailored to each client's issues and need. The goal of this book is to help cultivate proficiency for all practitioners to clarify and simplify integration of the spiritual competencies. It is anticipated that this book will promote effective and creative strategies for incorporating spirituality and religion into clinical practice and care. Dr. Sharon H. Harrell, LPCMH is a licensed professional counselor of mental health working at an agency and a private group practice. She received her Masters of Science in Education MS. Ed. in Guidance and Counseling at Herbert H. Lehman College and holds a Doctor of Holistic Theology, ThD in Holistic Ministries from the American Institute of Holistic Theology. As a clinician, Dr. Sharon's approach to counseling includes a holistic framework: a balance that coalesce the mental, emotional, and spiritual elements for optimum wellness and fulfillment. Therapy is about change and transformation, a healing process to cultivate the divine in you to achieve a more meaningful and productive manner of living. Dr. Sharon resides in Wilmington, Delaware and is the proud mother of two sons Douglass and Tyler. She is a member of Spirit Life Ministries, International.