Counseling

Metroplex Wellness and Counseling’s staff comprises of an exceptional team of professional practitioners trained to treat a myriad of mental health issues. Through counseling, our team strives to collaborate with clients to formulate desired therapeutic goals and to offer the support, guidance and counsel needed to help them reach those goals. Areas of specialty that we treat include:

  • depression
  • anxiety (e.g., Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social anxiety disorder)
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • panic disorder
  • addiction
  • eating disorders
  • self-harm/self-destructive behavior
  • suicidal ideation
  • marriage and family
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD)
  • Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
  • Teenage Issues

 For those seeking a faith-based approach to counseling our team is specifically trained in a model of care called biblical counseling.  Our center’s founder, Dr. Jeremy Lelek, is nationally recognized and is one of the top scholars in the biblical counseling community.  The following definition found consensus among experts who took part in his Ph.D. dissertation where they worked to develop a definition that most closely reflects a genuine approach to biblical counseling.

 “Biblical counseling endeavors to build a relationship with another person in which God’s work of change can thrive. It is therefore dependent on the Word of God, the work of the Holy Spirit and the grace of Jesus Christ. It seeks to build a contextualized understanding of the counselee (past and present) and will view that data through the lens of Scripture. The Biblical counselor rests in the knowledge that he is not the change agent, but a tool in the hands of the One who is. The biblical counselor does not ignore physical issues or emotional data, but seeks to integrate them into a holistic understanding of the person and where change needs to take place. The biblical counselor is not adversarial in his relationship to the psychologies of his culture, but examines research and insights through the lens of Scripture. In his work with the counselee the biblical counselor always recognizes the sovereignty of God, the transformative grace of Christ, and the insight-giving and conviction-producing ministry of the Holy Spirit. In all of this the biblical counselor sees himself not as an isolated instrument of change, but one whose work is intimately connected to God’s primary tool of change; the church, with all of its God-ordained, duties, structures and means of grace.”

 This approach is not a simplistic, legalistic, or Bible thumping approach to care, but a robust model that takes a deep dive into the Bible’s articulation of people and their struggles. It is saturated with love and grace while anchored in the transformative wisdom of the sacred Scriptures.

“When you’ve realized that you don’t even know yourself, that you’re an enigma to yourself, and when you keep looking inward only to find an unplumbable depth of mystery and secrets and parts of yourself that are loathsome, then Scripture isn’t received as a list of commands: instead, it breaks into your life as a light from outside that shows you the infinite God who loves you at the bottom of the abyss.”

James K.A. Smith, Christian Philosopher