pastoral counseling

American  

noun

1. the use of psychotherapeutic techniques by trained members of the clergy to assist parishioners who seek help for personal or emotional problems.

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Example Sentences

Bryant’s early interest in psychology was rooted in her father’s pastoral counseling.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2023

He said the paragraph about the limits of pastoral counseling was taken from national guidelines.

From Washington Times • Sep. 17, 2016

He’d been invited to a Fellowship meeting, but had declined, because outside the pulpit and beyond the boundaries of pastoral counseling he was a shy man.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2013

Charles Berney, Komisarjevsky’s probation officer in New Hampshire in 1996, testified that the family planned to get him pastoral counseling and didn’t want other types of counseling.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2011

During the opening dinner before the beginning of the sessions, I sat next to a minister who tried to impress me with how much he knew about pastoral counseling.

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