Plenary Sessions

God's Word: Our Sacred Delight (Psalm 119)

Jeremy Lelek serves as the founder and president of the Association of Biblical Counselors and Metroplex Wellness and Counseling. He has been a counselor since 1999, and has been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 2003. He holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Education and Supervision, an M.A. in Counseling, and a B.A. in Psychology.
Jeremy is also a Certified Provider with IASIS, a Micro-Current Neurofeedback system that offers cutting edge treatment to the brain. IASIS treatments are a naturopathic alternative to psychotropic medications, and are designed to impact the parasympathetic nervous system in such a way that symptoms such as depression, anxiety, anger, inattention, impulsively, addiction, and insomnia are positively impacted in a relatively short period of time.
Jeremy’s aim as a counselor is to impart the divine truth of Scripture in a relevant manner to those he serves, and do so in such a way that it reveals the true nature of their problems (be it marriage, parenting, depression, anger, anxiety, addiction, homosexuality, sleeplessness, etc.).
Jeremy is the author of Biblical Counseling Basics (2018), co-host on the podcast, Speak the Truth, a council member for the Biblical Counseling Coalition, and a long-time member of Fort Worth Presbyterian Church (PCA).
Dr. Lelek is happily married to Lynne, and they currently have the joy of loving and parenting their four children.

Pierre has served as the sixth dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry since 2022. He has authored several books, including *When Home Hurts: Responding Wisely to Domestic Abuse in Your Church* (Christian Focus, 2021), *The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life: Connecting Christ to Human Experience* (New Growth Press, 2016), and *The Pastor and Counseling* (Crossway, 2015). He also wrote the children’s storybook *God With Us: A Journey Home* (Shepherd Press, 2021) and has contributed to other journals and books, including *Scripture and Counseling* and *Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling*. His writing has been featured in Tabletalk Magazine, 9Marks Journal, Baptist Press, and The Gospel Coalition. He speaks at various engagements in the U.S. and overseas and serves on the board of directors for the Biblical Counseling Coalition. Pierre is an elder at Clifton Baptist Church, where he has served on staff in various roles. He and his wife Sarah raise their five children in Louisville, Kentucky.

Ed is a faculty member and counselor at CCEF, where he has served since 1981. He holds a doctor of philosophy in counseling (neuropsychology) from the University of Utah and a master of divinity from Biblical Theological Seminary. Ed is a licensed psychologist and has been active in local church ministry for decades. He has written numerous books, including When People Are Big and God Is Small (P&R Publishing, 1997), Shame Interrupted (New Growth Press, 2012), Side by Side (Crossway, 2015), and Created to Draw Near (Crossway, 2020).

John Henderson serves as an Associate Pastor at University Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas, primarily overseeing the counseling, equipping, and family ministries of the church. John joined the biblical counseling faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2020, and continues to serve as a council board member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition and a board member of the Association of Biblical Counselors. By God’s grace he has written *Equipped to Counsel*, a training curriculum in biblical counseling, *Catching Foxes*, a book for marriage preparation, and a number of articles, booklets, and book chapters. John and his wife Ruth live with their five children in northwest Arkansas.

Plenary One: Our Blessed Way - Jeremy Lelek

Plenary Two: Our Comfort in Affliction - Jeremy Pierre

Plenary Three: Our Piercing Lamp - Ed Welch

Plenary Four: Our Awe-Inspiring Truth - John Henderson

Pre-Conference

Counseling through Romans

Brad serves as the Pastor of Counseling at The Summit Church in Durham, NC. He also serves as Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, has authored several books including God’s Attributes: Rest for Life’s Struggles, and served as general editor for the Becoming a Church that Cares Well for the Abused (churchcares.com) project.

Julie Lowe is an author, speaker and counselor. She holds an MA in counseling from Biblical Theological Seminary, is a licensed professional counselor with over twenty-five years of counseling experience, and is a registered play therapist supervisor. Julie served as a faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF) for over 20 years and has lectured and taught at Missio Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary.
Julie has extensive experience teaching, speaking, and consulting with churches, schools, and other organizations around the country. She regularly teaches on topics such as marriage, women’s issues, sexual abuse, body image issues, parenting, adoption, and child maltreatment issues. She is trained in leading mandated reporter trainings and provides numerous trainings on child sexual abuse. Julie has a registered therapy dog that she works with both professionally and on a volunteer basis.
Julie has authored several books: Childproof: Parenting By Faith Not Formula, Safeguards: Shielding Our Homes and Equipping Our Kids, Building Bridges: Biblical Counseling Activities for Children and Teens, Helping Your Anxious Child: What to Do When Your Worries are Big, and Teens and Suicide: Recognizing the Signs and Sharing the Hope.
Her work and resources has been widely promoted by organizations like Focus on the Family, The Evangelical Counsel for Abuse Prevention and Paul Tripp’s Connecting Podcast. Julie and her husband, Greg, live in the Philadelphia, PA area and have five children. They have served over 20 years as foster and adoptive parents.

Tim is a Christian, a husband to Aileen, and a father to a daughter who is in high school, a daughter who is in college, and a son who is in heaven. He worships and serves as an elder at Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto, Ontario. He has written a number of books including Seasons of Sorrow.

Lee and his family live in Austin, Texas, where he is Pastor of Soul Care Ministries at Radiant Church while also serving as a consultant for Soul Care Consulting. He began pastoral and counseling ministry in 2005 at The Village Church for nearly 10 years. He then spent three year in Canada where he served as the Pastor of Biblical Soul Care in Muskoka. He is member of the Association of Biblical Counselors and a counsel board member for the Biblical Counseling Coalition. Lee is married to Andrea, and they have four children, Luke, Abel, Leah, and Miriam.

“The Hour Has Come” - Romans 13:11-14 - Tim Challies

“Dying to Self” - Romans 12:1-2 - Julie Lowe

“Making Peace with Romans 8:28” - Brad Hambrick

"Rejoice in Hope" - Romans 5:1-5 - Lee Lewis

Track Options

ABC offers specialized tracks taught by leading practitioners in the field. Each of the following tracks will include eight insightful sessions. Attendees will choose one track during registration, and will attend all sessions in that track throughout the duration of the conference.

Note: Track sessions are listed in the order that they will be delivered.

Track A - Holistic Soul Care

Objective: To provide attendees with a biblical perspective that targets both the physical and the spiritual dimensions of our makeup, and how both apply to counseling others. While the spiritual will always take precedence when it comes to biblical care, God has given us an abundance of research that helps us to understand how the brain, the heart, and the gut impact our emotional states. Therefore, drawing from this data as an adjunct to our care for others can prove quite helpful. A framework will be given that will foster a counseling context that reflects the counsel of Paul who wrote, “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor. 10:31).

Matthew LaPine is from Duluth, Minnesota. He is the Director of Christian Education at Citylight Church in Omaha, NE. He has been an adjunct professor for the last four years at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (2019-22) and Reformed Theological Seminary (2022), where he taught Old and New Testament, Theology, Hermeneutics, Ethics, Apologetics, and Theological Foundations of Counseling (RTS).
He holds a PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, IL) under Kevin Vanhoozer. He writes on theology, emotion, and mental health. He published his book *The Logic of the Body* with Lexham Press in 2020. It was a finalist for Christianity Today’s book of the year in Theology and Ethics in 2021.
Matt is married to Molly. They have lived in Iowa, Texas, Ohio, and Wisconsin. They have three girls.

Eliza is the director of counseling at McLean Bible Church located in the Washington D.C. metro area. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling from Biblical Theological Seminary and has advanced certificates in biblical counseling from The Christian Counseling Educational Foundation (CCEF) and The Association of Biblical Counselors (ABC). She is also a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC/LCP) and is a Certified Clinical Professional Trauma Therapist (CCPTT) and has specialized trauma training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Group Traumatic Episode Protocol (GTEP).
She teaches counseling at Metro Baltimore Seminary in Maryland and at Santiago Theological Seminary in the Dominican Republic and is a certifying instructor for the Association of Biblical Counselors (ABC) in Virginia. She is also the co-host of the podcast Counsel For Life.
She is the author of The Whole Life: 52 Weeks of Biblical Self-Care, Raising Teens in a Hyper-Sexualized World, Raising Kids in a Screen-Saturated World, Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids, How to Get the Most Out of Your Counseling, Count Yourself Calm, Teens and Anxiety: How Parents Can Help, The World Rejoices (August 2024), I’m Stressed: From Pressure to Peace (October 2024), and a forthcoming book on Trauma with Harvest House publishers (2025).
In addition to having a passion for counseling, Eliza also loves to be out in nature. When she is not in the office, you may find her exploring the beauty of the outdoors. Whether she’s wandering along a trail, soaking in the sunshine near a lake, or simply taking in the peaceful sounds of a nearby river, Eliza finds refreshment in the serenity and beauty of God’s creation. Eliza also loves spending time with family. She has been married for 32 years to her husband Ken and they have three adult children. They also have two daughters-in-law and a brand-new grandson who they adore!

Lainey is the founder of Sōma Consulting, LLC, and creator of the Understand Healthy, an online course with a biblical view of nutrition, exercise, and stress management. She is passionate about Christian theology and body stewardship and strives to give Christians the tools they need to glorify God in their bodies. By providing an understanding of the theology of the body and wellness basics, Lainey equips her clients with a biblical foundation and the practical tools necessary to apply these principles to their physical health.
Her educational background includes a bachelor’s in exercise science, a master’s in Christian leadership, and a Ph.D. in systematic theology, all of which she applied to 10 years of working in the church and 20 years of personal training. She is the author of Be Well: Learning to Steward Your Health, and the Forsaken Body podcast and blog. While she speaks at various events about topics such as gender, body image, theology, and burnout, she’s also developed Embodied Care Workshops that provide a framework for ministry workers to foster both body and soul health for those in their care.

"Counseling and the Body: First Steps for Holistic Care" - Ed Welch

"Embodiment: Theological Consideration of the Body" - Lainey Greer

"Inherited Damage: How Our Family Shapes the Body" - Matt LaPine

"The Soul-Body Connection" - Jeremy Lelek

"Covering Shame: Humility and Belonging" - Matt LaPine

"Stewardship: Practical Care for the Body" - Lainey Greer

"A Practical Approach to the Body and Wellness" - Eliza Huie

"Conclusion with Q&A" - Panel

Track B - Trauma

Objective: True, lasting healing from trauma requires wise, tender counselors who can access and apply biblical truths to the complex effects of terror upon an embodied soul. Through eight sessions together, the trauma track aims to equip counselors at a basic level for perceiving, thinking, and responding to the experience of trauma. After establishing a biblical anthropology of trauma, we will define trauma and trace how traumatic experience develops in a human being before presenting an approach to ministering the gospel of Christ and word of God to various aspects of traumatic experience. The experience of trauma involves a quality of grief, terror, anxiety, confusion, painful reliving, guilt, and shame that only Christ, His Spirit, and His word can remedy.

Darby is a faculty member and counselor at CCEF, where she has served since 2003. She has a master of divinity with a counseling emphasis from Westminster Theological Seminary. Darby brings particular passion and expertise in helping the vulnerable and oppressed, especially women in abusive marriages. She has contributed to Church Cares and the PCA Domestic Abuse & Sex Assault church training materials. She has counseled in a missionary church setting and has also held leadership roles in women’s ministry. She is the author of Is it Abuse? (P&R, 2020), has written a handful of minibooks, and has contributed to several other books. Darby and her husband John have three children.

Curtis Solomon, PhD. serves as Executive Director of the Biblical Counseling Coalition and Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling at Boyce College. He is the author or *Redeem Your Marriage: Hope for Husbands Who Have Hurt through Pornography*. He and his wife Jenny co-founded Solomon Soul Care which offers counseling, coaching, and consulting services.

"A Biblical Anthropology of Trauma" - Curtis Solomon

"Describing the Nature and Development of Trauma" - John Henderson

"Describing the Experience and Expression of Trauma" - Darby Strickland

"Entering Their World Marked by Trauma" - Darby Strickland

"Remembering, Reliving, Retelling, and Reinterpreting" - John Henderson

"Grief, Lament, and the Mercies of God in Christ" - Curtis Solomon

"Guilt, Shame, and the Covering of God in Christ" - Darby Strickland and Curtis Solomon

"Conclusion with Q&A" - Panel

Track C - Fundamentals of Biblical Counseling Methods

Objective: As believers, our call is to care for each other’s souls. But how do we do that? This track is designed to equip you with foundational truths on how to facilitate and cultivate a culture of one another care within your church or ministry. Together we will discuss things such as how to get a counseling session off to a good start, learn how to ask good questions that engages the heart, understand the importance of listening, and knowing the dynamics of the heart. We will also spend time sharing how to bring the gospel into every session, foundational scriptures in caring for others, and the importance of confession and repentance. Lastly, we will address common mistakes and the value of personal stewardship. It will be informative, relational, and interactive…so don’t miss out!

Shauna loves opportunities to write and teach God’s Word, She has a passion to encourage, equip & empower others to walk more faithfully and joyfully in the midst of their circumstances. Shauna desires to teach others to have a deeper knowledge of God's Word and through obedience to the truth, to start living radical lives of freedom and purpose.
Shauna is married to Michael, a discipleship pastor in Texas, and they have two sons Dustin and Jaxson.

Emily Dempster serves as the Director of Biblical Counseling Training at Salem Heights Church in Salem, Oregon. Emily holds a Master’s in Pastoral Counseling from Liberty University and an Advanced Biblical Counseling Certification through ABC. In addition to helping lead a fantastic team of biblical counselors, she dedicates much of her time to counselor training and working with churches in the Pacific Northwest to develop counseling ministries. She loves talking with other ministry leaders about biblical counseling in the local church. Emily married her husband Ryan in 1998 and they have two children in college.

Jason Kovacs serves as a counselor and the Executive Director of the Gospel Care Collective. He is passionate about walking with people through whatever they are facing including: marriage, parenting, trauma, depression, anger, anxiety, addiction, stress, adoption related issues, and work related struggles. Jason received his Masters of Arts from Reformed Theological Seminary and utilizes a gospel-centered, clinically-informed approach.
He has specialized training in trauma care through TBRI® and is a member of the Association of Biblical Counselors. Jason serves on the Council of the Biblical Counseling Coalition and the board of the Canadian Biblical Counseling Coalition as well as an adjunct professor Heritage Theological Seminary and Millar College of the Bible.
Jason has been married for over 20 years to Shawnda and they have 5 incredible children. In his spare time he enjoys mountain biking, swimming, good coffee, and reading.

"Theology of Care" - Lee Lewis

"Caring Well by Wise Assessment" - Emily Dempster

"Dynamics of the Heart" - Lee Lewis"

The Gospel in Counseling" - Emily Dempster

"Sharing Scripture in Counseling" - Shauna Van Dyke

"The Importance of Confession and Repentance" - Jason Kovacs

"Care for the Caregiver" - Lee Lewis

"Counseling Process and Common Mistakes" - Panel

Track D - Addictions

Objective: Delivered by a team of people who have walked through various addictions and been transformed by God’s Word, the Addiction Track seeks to help people understand the fundamental nature of addiction as a worship disorder. True transformation is only possible when the gospel opens eyes and transforms hearts to worship the only One who truly deserves all worship. We provide foundational truths relevant to all addictive issues and demonstrate how they practically apply to particular situations like substance abuse, eating disorders, and sexual addiction.

David Dunham serves as Pastor of Counseling & Discipleship at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Roseville. MI. Previously he has been a pastor, church consultant, and college professor. He is a regular contributor to The Biblical Counseling Coalition and speaks and writes about Biblical counseling regularly. He is the author *Addictive Habits: Changing for Good* (P&R, 2018) and the co-author of *Table for Two: Biblical Counsel for Eating Disorders* (New Growth Press, 2021). He has an MDIV from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Krista Dunham has served as a women’s mentor, biblical counselor, and curriculum developer for various women’s and children’s ministries. She has a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from Ohio University and has a Masters in Counseling from Westminster Theological Seminary. She is the coauthor of Table for Two: Biblical Counsel for Eating Disorders and is the executive director of Sparrow and Heart Soul Care.

**Michael Snetzer** has been leading recovery ministries for two decades and currently serves as Recovery Pastor at Citizens Church in Plano, Texas. He received his Masters in Counseling from Dallas Baptist University. He maintains a part-time private practice as an LPC-S and biblical counselor under the umbrella of North Texas Christian Counseling in Frisco, Texas. He served on the pastoral staff at The Village Church from 2007-2019 and is currently the Director of a non-profit, Gospel Recovery Network. He has had the privilege of co-authoring ***Recovering Redemption****: A Gospel-perspective on How to Change*, ***Steps:*** *A Gospel-centered Recovery* and several other articles and book chapters. He is married to his beautiful wife Sonia and has three wonderful children - McKenna, Ava, and Greyson.

"Understanding Addiction: A Worship Disorder" - Michael Snetzer

"Understanding a Person’s Story: The Fertile Ground of Addiction" - Michael Snetzer

"Addiction and Habits: Addiction as Voluntary Slavery" - Dave Dunham

"Captivating and Reordering Our Hearts: How the Gospel Provides Hope and Help for Addictions" - Michael Snetzer

"Responsibility and Change" - Krista Dunham

"Restructuring and Change" - David Dunham

"Addiction and Related Issues: Shame, Trauma, Grief, Anger, etc." - Krista Dunham

"The Church and Relapse Prevention" - Michael Snetzer

Track E - Counseling Children and Teens

Objective: Knowing how to approach children and teens in counseling can be a challenge. Learning how to enter their world and draw them out can sometimes feel difficult. The goal of this track is to begin by providing attendees with a biblical framework for counseling children and teens - and parents. As we build a biblical foundation for understanding the needs of families, we will then demonstrate practical approaches for working with youth in counseling.

Garrett Higbee, Psy.D.
Garrett is the director of Lead Healthy Retreats for Twelve Stones Ministries. He is also a leader care specialist for the Great Commission Collective. Garrett is a seasoned counselor, teacher, and trainer with over 30 years of experience. He was trained as a clinical psychologist with a specialty in marriage and family counseling but had a radical conversion in 1992, which led him to trust in Christ and His Word for all things related to life and counseling. He helped start Twelve Stones Ministries, a biblical counseling retreat in 2004. In 2018 he founded Soul Care Consulting. He and his team have developed a highly effective church-based model of discipleship and soul care engaging every believer. He is dedicated to helping churches thrive both in their leadership cultures and as an authentic community. Garrett is a founding board member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition. He has been married to Tammy for over 25 years and they have three children, Rachel, Zach and Sarah. They live in Westfield, Indiana. His intensive retreats for leaders can be found at leadhealthyretreats.com and his training resources can be found at soulcareconsulting.com.

Ron has been married to his beautiful wife Monique for 29 years. They have five children, Hannah 24, Ron Jr. 22, Matthew 20, Leah 18, and Kaitlyn 13. Ron received his MDiv. from Calvary Baptist Theological seminary in 2006. He has been in pastoral ministry for 25 years. Ron currently serves as the Campus Pastor at Faith Christian Academy in Quakertown Pa, where he oversees the Bible Department as well as teaches and offers biblical counseling to students and staff. Ron has been involved in providing and instructing others in biblical counseling for over 20 years. He has instructed on biblical counseling in churches, at the college level, and on short term mission trips in China and West Africa. He is the co-pastor of Allentown Hope Community church located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

"The Importance of a Biblical Worldview for Families" - Ron Jones

"Significance and Role of Parents" - Julie Lowe

"Developing a Counseling Philosophy for Kids, Teens, and Their Parents" - Garrett Higbee

"Critical Issues Younger Children are Facing Today" - Full Team

"Critical Issues Teen are Facing Today- Garrett, Julie" - Ron Jones

"A Biblical Rationale for Expressive Therapies" - Julie Lowe

"Practical Labs – A Case Study With A Younger Child" - Full Team

"Practical Lab – A Case Study With a Teen" - Full Team

Track F - Grief

Objective: Participants in this track will be better equipped to guide the people they counsel through the grief that accompanies the loss of loved ones. They will learn how the Bible speaks to grief and how they, as counselors, can lead others toward hope, peace, and perseverance.

Rachael received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas and her Master’s Degree in Counseling from Texas Woman’s University. She received a certification in International Trauma Recovery from Biblical Theological Seminary. It was during her time at Texas Woman's that the Lord began pursuing Rachael and graciously saved her afterwards. Christ and His word continue to challenge, encourage, comfort and change Rachael. As an ambassador for Christ, she enjoys pointing others towards the God of all comfort by connecting their pain to the hope we have in our Lord that is found in scripture.
Rachael enjoys counseling adult females who are walking through the valleys of depression, anxiety, anger, grief, childhood abuse, domestic violence, trauma, marriage and family problems, cross cultural debriefing, and body image and eating disorder issues. She counsels in Frisco and Richardson.
She and her husband Doug worship at The Parks Church, in McKinney.

Paul Tautges, DMin has been in gospel ministry since 1992 and currently serves as pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Cleveland, Ohio. He has authored many books about pastoral ministry, biblical counseling, and parenting including Counseling One Another, Anxiety: Knowing God’s Peace, and A Small Book for the Hurting Heart. Paul is a teaching fellow with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC), member of the council board of the Biblical Counseling Coalition (BCC) and serves as editor for the popular LifeLine mini-book series from Shepherd Press. Paul and his wife Karen have ten children, and a growing tribe of grandchildren. He blogs regularly at www.counselingoneanother.com.

"When Through the Deep Waters I Call You To Go" - Tim & Aileen Challies

"When Sorrows Like Sea Billows Roll" - Rachel Rosser Schulte

"Marching to Zion" - Tim Challies

"Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow" - Rachel Rosser Schulte

"We Shall Meet on That Beautiful Shore" - Paul Tautges

"When Other Helpers Fail and Comforts Flee" - Paul Tautges

"In ev’ry Change He Faithful Will Remain" - Panel

"Bear Patiently the Cross of Grief or Pain" - Paul Tautges

Track G - Gender and Sexuality

Objective: Few topics generate conversation and confusion as much as gender and sexuality. Are clarity, compassion, conviction, and civility even possible within this conversation? The Gender and Sexuality track will seek to offer biblical clarity on topics related to gender and sexuality from both a pastoral, discipleship, and counseling lens. From understanding how an LGBTQ person’s story and background impact their struggle to how the church, parents, friends, and others can better help and address strugglers. Our presenters will seek to offer biblically faithful truth while helping the attendee grow in wisdom and discernment.

Jonathan Holmes is the Founder and Executive Director of Fieldstone Counseling. He also serves as the Pastor of Counseling for Parkside Church Bainbridge and Green. Jonathan graduated from The Master’s University with degrees in Biblical Counseling and History and his MA from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the author of *The Company We Keep: In Search of Biblical Friendship*, *Counsel for Couples: A Biblical and Practical Guide for Marriage Counseling*, *Rescue Skills* & *Rescue Plan.*
Jonathan has written for a number of sites and organizations including *Christianity Today*, The Gospel Coalition, Biblical Counseling Coalition, the ERLC, and the *Journal for Biblical Counseling*. Jonathan serves on the Board of Directors for CCEF (Christian Counseling Educational Foundation) and the Council Board for the BCC (Biblical Counseling Coalition). He is a frequent speaker at conferences and retreats. He and his wife, Jennifer, have four daughters, Ava, Riley, Ruby, and Emma.

Ellen oversees Harvest USA’s Women’s Ministry from our Philadelphia office. She focuses on discipling women who struggle with sexual and relational sins in their own lives, as well as women who are impacted by the sexual sins of their spouses or others. Ellen is available to teach, equip, and encourage churches and organizations to become more effective in ministering the gospel of Christ in all aspects of sexual brokenness.

Andrew Dealy serves as the executive director of The Austin Stone Counseling Center and is the director of soul care at The Austin Stone Community Church. As a licensed professional counselor with a focus in biblical counseling, Andrew’s passion is to display the glory of God in the darkest moments and places of peoples’ lives to help them see that the Lord’s ability to save, heal, restore, and redeem is not hindered by the severity of their circumstances or weaknesses. Andrew has been married to his wife, Tricia, for 14 years, and they have three sweet children.

"A Scripture-Shaped Story of Human Sexuality & Gender " - Jonathan Holmes

"Identity: What Is It and How Is It Formed? " - Jonathan Holmes

"Understanding the Landscape of Sexual and Gender Identity " - Andrew Dealy

"Addressing Struggles with Gender and Sexuality: A Biblical Counseling Framework Part 1" - Andrew Dealy

"Addressing Struggles with Gender and Sexuality: A Biblical Counseling Framework Part 2 " - Ellen Dykas

"Story and Suffering: Understanding how a painful world impacts our hearts and beliefs " - Ellen Dykas

"Desires and Life Expectations: How they work together to shape beliefs and behavior " - Ellen Dykas

"Question & Answer Panel " - Ellen Dykas, Andrew Dealy, Jonathan Holmes

Track H - Conflict Resolution

Objective: The Conflict Resolution track traces conflict resolution from good (what allowed the relationship to initially build trust) to bad (what went wrong) to hard (why conflict is difficult to navigate) back to good (a restored, healthy normal). Participants in this track will gain an appreciation for the journey each of their counselees is taking and biblical concepts / skills necessary to effectively walk alongside their counselees on that journey.

Greg Wilson, D.Ed.Min., LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor and board-approved counselor supervisor in the state of Texas. He leads Soul Care Associates, a counseling and consulting practice in Flower Mound, Texas. In his counseling practice, Dr. Wilson sees couples, families, and individuals, adolescents and adults. His practice areas include marriage and family, adolescent issues, domestic abuse, pornography and sex addiction, and trauma. As a consultant, Dr. Wilson works with leaders of churches and other organizations on adopting best practices and standards for care.

Beth created Christian Trauma Healing Network with the vision for Christian leadership and mental health professionals to collaborate on the healing of trauma. She owns a private counseling practice in Denton, Texas specializing in trauma healing. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor – Supervisor (LPC-S) and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP-II).

"A Full Journey Perspective on Conflict Resolution" - Brad Hambrick

"Preparation for the Journey" - Beth Broom

"The Perspective of Each Person in Conflict" - Jeremy Pierre

"Conducting a Session of Conflict" - Beth Broom

"Forgiveness: A Pivotal Point in the Story" - Brad Hambrick

"When A Conflict Can’t Be Resolved: Experiencing Peace in the Hurt" - Greg Wilson

"The Redemptive Value of Conflict Done Well" - Full Team

"The Experience of the Counselor When Counseling Conflict" - Panel

Speakers & Sessions