Strategic pastoral counseling is both brief and time limited, working within a suggested maximum of five sessions. – David G. Benner.
Brief and Time Limited. The format I follow is that the first session is devoted to isolated the issue from the presenting matter. When someone comes to us, this involves us asking, “What is the matter?” From this we are able to identify the primary issue. This involves an hour of counseling because the primary approach is Socratic. I have to ask a series of Socratic quesions. This is recorded and transcribed before a report is written that not only draws from the transcript but background information provided by peer-reviewed journals and seminal books. Cost: $450.
