Christian Counseling
Dr. Cynthia Bell provides Christian counseling and temperament therapy at Life Spiritual Essentials, LLC. She is committed to delivering quality counseling services to every client. Whether it’s your first session or your last, you will experience her support and compassion in a safe, attentive, and nurturing environment.
Do you want to overcome emotional challenges and improve your relationships?
If so, you might be a good fit for our services. We provide individual, couples, and family counseling to improve communication, resolve conflicts, and rebuild relationship trust.
Christ-Centered
Let’s have honest conversations that create a deeper connection to self, others, and Christ.
Christian Counseling Services
Christian counseling is confidential, one-on-one communication with individuals needing emotional, spiritual, or mental health support. I can help you manage life’s challenges. No concern or issue is too big or too small. By incorporating your faith into the process, you can find strength and guidance on your journey towards well-being.
Each person is unique and has different needs. I offer individual, couples, and family counseling for adults, young adults (ages 18 to 21), and children (ages 7 to 17). Christian counseling can create a spiritual awakening and a supportive environment where you can grow in your relationship with God and find healing for life’s challenges.
Helping individuals, couples, and families deal more effectively with life’s challenges.
If you have a concern that is not listed, please don’t hesitate to contact me to see how I can help.
Individual Counseling
Individual counseling helps people seeking support to heal, learn, and grow personally.
How does individual counseling work?
Together, we would evaluate your current situation and find healthy, spiritually-based ways to achieve your goal. We would build an alliance as we explore your challenges.
Some of the goals in the session will involve:
Couples Counseling
Couples counseling addresses conflicts and strengthens partner relationships. We offer premarital and marital counseling as well as divorce and co-parenting counseling.
How does couples counseling work?
We start by gathering information about your situation and goals. Once I understand your problem, we’ll work together to set clear and achievable goals. This ensures you feel safe and supported while working towards your desired outcome.
We will seek the following outcomes:
Family Counseling
Family counseling focuses on finding solutions for the challenges and complexities that may arise in family life.
How does family counseling work?
We will collaborate in our family counseling sessions to understand your family’s challenges. This process involves identifying any patterns or dynamics that contribute to these issues. We aim to facilitate a smooth transition toward a more positive and fulfilling family dynamic.
Some benefits we aim for:
Temperament Therapy
Temperament is an inborn quality God placed within each of us while we were in our mother’s womb and the foundation of our Christian counseling services. As a Christian, it is vital for you to:
Temperament therapy utilizes a faith-based approach to understanding yourself and your relationships. Temperament is the root cause of the emotional or behavioral tendencies we witness daily. It shapes how we react to the world’s environment and interact with others. By achieving balance in these areas, you can experience relief from inner stress and unlock the full potential that God intended.
Temperament Analysis
I will ask you to complete the Arno Profile System (APS) questionnaire to enhance our counseling sessions. This assessment will help me determine your temperament, allowing me to tailor our sessions to your needs. The Arno Profile System was developed by Dr. Richard Gene Arno, Ph.D., and Dr. Phyllis Jean Arno, Ph.D., the founders of The National Christian Counselors Association (N.C.C.A.), to identify different temperament types accurately.
Temperament Types
Temperament types, identified by the Arno Profile System (APS), categorize individuals based on their natural, inborn traits and behaviors.
Each temperament type has unique strengths and weaknesses, which can help individuals improve their relationships and personal well-being. The primary temperament types are:
Analytical, detail-oriented, and reflective. These individuals tend to be perfectionists and are often sensitive and thoughtful.
Confident, goal-driven, and assertive. Cholerics are natural leaders who are decisive and thrive in challenging environments.
Calm, reliable, and easy-going. They are peacemakers who seek harmony and are often patient and well-balanced.
Sociable, outgoing, and enthusiastic. Sanguines are typically energetic and enjoy being around people, often bringing joy and positivity to their surroundings.
Servant-hearted, accommodating, and attentive to others’ needs. They are supportive and often seek to please and help those around them.
Arno Profile System
The Arno Profile System (APS) offers several benefits for both counselors and clients:
- Personalized Counseling: APS allows counselors to tailor their approach based on the client’s temperament, leading to more effective and individualized counseling sessions.
- Deeper Self-Understanding: Clients gain valuable insights into their inherent strengths and weaknesses, helping them understand their behaviors, motivations, and emotional responses.
- Improved Relationships: By understanding the temperaments of family members or partners, clients can improve communication and reduce conflicts, leading to healthier and more harmonious relationships.
- Effective Conflict Resolution: APS helps identify the root causes of conflicts and provides strategies to address them based on the temperament types involved.
- Enhanced Personal Growth: Clients can use the insights from APS to work on personal development, overcome challenges, and achieve greater fulfillment.
- Faith-Based Integration: APS aligns with Christian principles for those who value faith-based counseling, providing a spiritually supportive framework for personal and relational growth.
