Occoquan Counseling Center

Visit Our New Facebook Page

OCCBC — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:07:09 +0000

OCC is pleased to announce that we now have a Facebook page!

Please visit us at:
http://www.facebook.com/OccoquanCounselingCenter

Pastor’s Luncheon

OCCBC — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:34:27 +0000

Plan to attend our free Pastor’s Luncheon on February 22nd from 12:00 noon to 1:30 PM.

The luncheon will be held at 3700 Old Bridge Road in Woodbridge.

The luncheon will allow you to meet our counseling staff. Director, Dr. Reina Graham, will give a brief summary of Occoquan Counseling Center’s history, future goals, and unique services.

Please call 703-878-4673 or e-mail Dr. Graham at reina.graham@occbc.org to RSVP.

2012 Counseling Conference

OCCBC — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:23:37 +0000

We are exited to have author Stuart Scott with us on November 10-11 for our annual counseling conference. Dr. Scott serves as the Professor of Biblical Counseling at Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Our topic will be ” FLIRTING WITH DISASTER–handling destructive behavior” We will be considering topics such as eating disorders, self-injury, suicide, addictions, depression, etc. Please mark your calendars now for a great weekend!!

CCEF’s 2011 Counseling Conference

OCCBC — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:55:28 +0000

We invite you to join us October 21-23 for CCEF’s Counseling Conference in Louisville, Kentucky! The Christian Counseling and Education Foundation is focusing this year’s conference on “Psychiatric Disorders: A Compassionate Look at Complex Problems.” OBC’s counselors will be car pooling out to Louisville, and sharing hotel rooms to offset costs. For more information, please talk to Matt Huggins or Mike Pickett, and go to CCEF to register.

2011 Counseling Conference – “Loss, But Not Lost”

OCCBC — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:39:43 +0000

Occoquan Bible Church, in conjunction with Occoquan Counseling Center, invites you to join us on Saturday, November 12th, for our 2011 Counseling Conference, “Loss, But Not Lost.” In the midst of all the hurts and losses of life, we can know there is a Redeemer. Even though we encounter loss, all is not lost. Join us as we look at the hope of redemption in the midst of our suffering.

Conference Schedule

Registration (8:30-9:00am)

Plenary Session 1 (9:00-10:00am)

Break (10:00-10:15am)

Break-Out Sessions (10:15-11:30am)

Lunch (11:30am-12:30pm)

Break-Out Sessions (12:30-1:45pm)

Break (1:45-2:00pm)

Plenary Session 2 (2:00-3:00pm)

Session Descriptions

PLENARY SESSIONS

Plenary Session 1 – A Definition of Biblical Counseling. How is biblical counseling different than discipleship? (Dr. Kyle Austin)

Plenary Session 2 – Finding Hope in Loss (Dr. Kyle Austin)

BREAK-OUT SESSIONS

Dealing with the Empty Nest (Rick Brock and Mike Pickett)

Losses for Men (Steve Crow)

Mourning the Loss of a Loved One (Ted and Tammi Vetter)

Economic Loss (Louis and Anne-Marie Mingo)

Life After Divorce (Dr. David Schnittger)

Loss of Purity – For Women Only (CARE-NET)

Stop the Pain: A Loss of Health (Cheryl Barany and Reina Graham)

PTSD: A Loss of Serenity (Matt Huggins and Colleen Dugan)

Addictions: Loss of Control (Will Reisig)

Loss of Relationships – For Women Only (Cecilia Connell)

Note: Break-Out Sessions will be offered both at 10:15am and 12:30pm.

Our Biblical Counseling Center is Open!

OCCBC — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:01:06 +0000

As of January 2011, the Occoquan Counseling Center is open for business! After years of dialogue, prayer and planning, we share the excitement of the counseling ministry in the beginning of the Occoquan Counseling Center. Mac McManus, Matt Huggins and Reina Graham have worked diligently to lead their council to bring Biblical counseling to our community. God has brought several men and women to us who hold degrees in psychology and Biblical counseling. Some have been trained and certified through OBC while others have already received or are seeking degrees and certification through Liberty University, The Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF), and the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors (NANC). We stand uniquely prepared with all of these gifted individuals to help a national movement that is restoring Christ to counseling and counseling to the local church!

The Occoquan Counseling Center allows our trained counselors to offer ongoing and more sophisticated counseling to those burdened with anxiety, depression, grief, PTSD, addictions, eating disorders, sexual disorders, and family issues to name a few. The center will help ease the counseling load of our pastoral staff while still allowing our pastors to offer short term, crisis and church related counseling for the flock at OBC.

Our goal and prayer is to be able to become financially self sustaining with a future objective of securing an off-site office space in a very visible location within our community.

For questions or to make an appointment, call Dr. Reina Graham, Director of Counseling, at 703-328-9019.