Lay Counselor Role

A lay counselor is a trained individual who understands the importance of providing
listening ears support, and guidance, but sometimes this kind of help and understanding
cannot be restricted to appointment times only. When a person does not have the required
knowledge this person may not work as a therapist or counselor, but has acquired skilled
counseling additional vocational experience.
Lay counselors provide support to individuals experiencing emotional issues and
problems, training will provide the lay person with an understanding of how to help
the people going through their difficulties. The level of counseling is required if the
medical conditions in complicate to their emotional issue. Personality and anxiety must
be directed

to a more qualified professional.
A lay counselor should also be able at all times, ready to demonstrate an
understanding behavior, and provide support for each situation that is presented.

Some
issues may arise, and there has to be a continual counseling over a period. If the
individual has some emotional problems, they must be identified by the lay person
that’s providing support to the best of their ability.

We must be trained the importance of the lay counselor role that has to be
identified, because it is important to communicate the biblical aspect of equipping
laity, so lay counselors are in harmony with the overall preaching, teaching, and discipleship
ministries of the church. The required supervision by individuals well versed in Scripture
moreover, whoever possess the ability to apply Scriptures in practical counseling.
Counseling methods often employed at various stages of a counseling relationship, and that is at times during the same session. We should be able to shift gears in counseling
to utilize approaches appropriate to the particular resources and problems, strengths and
limitations of each person. Where there is no vision, the people perish. Counseling must be
guided by an evolving vision, this vision must consist of helping

people.
The overarching goal of all pastoral care and counseling is to liberate, empower, and
nurture wholeness centered in Spirit. Methods of caring and counseling are important
diminensions of this wholeness enabling ministry. Spiritual formation and ethical guidance
are core concerns in all pastoral care and counseling rooted in the Judeo Christian heritage.
Spiritual guidance is most important of all because you are lead and governed by God.
It must become cultural in its perspective, learning new ways of caring
for the poor and powerless, ethnic minorities, women, in the non-western
cultures, positive authority, and the socially-defined expectation that they will take the
initiative in actively reaching out to offer help to those who need care and counseling. Lay
counselors must become effective in liberating, and understanding wholeness.

The main focus should be on helping people handle their life problems and crises
fully, the methods used should be aimed at increasing the constructiveness of those
behaviors such as feelings and attitudes. Counseling should be the priority when a
person has to make life threatening decisions, as well as expressing to make amends for
other families in the communities.
When counseling is taking place, it allows the people to have an opportunity
to grow in the midst of their crises. The confident and trust that an individual allowed
the pastor to enter their private thought, actions, situations and the privacy of things that
the person has sustained for a long time is now finally coming to the light. Reaching out
to help a person to survive and overcome obstacles in their way is unique.
Counseling begins when the first contact is made by a person seeking
help. Also, the foundation is laid for a growing therapeutic relationship as the person
experiences the minister’s warmth, understanding, and caring. Another foundation is to
have that flexibility and ingenuity. Sometimes we have to listen rather than speaking on
how we feel at that given time about a person’s situation.
When operating in counseling the listen skills also has to play an
important role in what you are trying to accomplish, you may know a lot concerning
the issues, but you have to listen. Let the other person know that you are
trying to understand what is being related to you, now is the opportunity for
clarity that you have been waiting to endure.

Sometimes the person is lost for words, but we have to let them again have control
of the conversation. This profession comes from God through training and time; it allows
quality individuals to deal with traditions and cultures.

One that has been trained to handle
and support people’s pain, anxieties, joys, triumphs, and victories. The ministry of caring
and counseling as a leader provided to your congregation for all the household of faith.
Lay people are to have the Spiritual maturity, wisdom, possessing knowledge, and
character qualities to apply in the situations, using interpretative principles. The main
impact has caused leaders to get a better understanding of the different roles and also the
different functions that make up the ministry. The achieving relationship is vital, one
cannot effectively counsel someone that does not trust you or your ability to help them.
While counseling, you cannot just deal the problem knowing that the problem has
not been resolved. If it is not it will resurface, and sometimes worst than the time
before, so you will have to look in all areas to make sure that you have left nothing to be
rehashed in any situation. To heal from a situation or grow and continue to have
a clear mind and a successful life, you must take an active role after the session is complete.
There has been many seek for help that is not a part of any church nor in

the
community, they are lonely and alienated in our society who need the love and help from
other people that they do not know even exist in life. We should not let anything stop us
from counseling people because they are not in our church or community or a close family
member that we love so dearly, because everybody is somebody in the eyesight of God.