Words From Our Clients

When I read “The Compass” this month and saw that Trinity was celebrating 15 years I realized that my “thank you” was LONG overdue! Of those 15 years I’ve been seeing [my counselor] for the past 10 years, and of those 10, I’ve not been financially able to pay for the past 8. Our insurance changed after 2 years and we have had multiple financial trials but [my counselor] continues to see me. Thank you for allowing me to continue in my counseling even though I could not afford to do so. I first walked through the doors of Trinity 10 years ago, bleeding, beaten, and half dead from a childhood that was more like a battlefield than a childhood. To say I was terrified would be an understatement!! I am no longer that terrified child! To help you understand the degree of healing that has taken place and continues to take place in me I will share with you this very personal thing: I have been married for 28 years. Of those 28 years I’ve consistently cried in certain circumstances. About 6–9 months ago my crying has stopped! This is just one of the MANY ways I have experienced, and continue to experience healing. As I ponder it, I realize it’s like being invited to dine at the “King’s Table” at no charge. God really does redeem, rebuild and restore and for me He has done so through Trinity….The healing I have received through Trinity reminds me of the gospel. Your supporters have “paid the price” (literally!) for me to be a whole person, not that terrified child that walked through the doors 10 years ago. Due to your continued financial support I have not passed down to my four children the generational baggage that was handed to me. For that I am eternally grateful!

-Trinity Client

I came to Trinity Counseling broken and discouraged. I wanted to end it all. The only thing that kept me going was a small business that consumed my time and energy. I felt like David in II Chronicles 20:12—"powerless and without a plan."

My first counseling session gave me hope. I knew I needed to heal, and that it would be a long hard process. The most wonderful gift God gave me during those first two years was sleep. Miraculously, I could lie down and go to sleep every night. I often woke up depressed, as the horror of it all hit me again.

Since that time I have made some positive changes, and am now facing other challenges. Trinity gave me the skills to deal with these circumstances, make intelligent decisions, and move forward with confidence and faith.

Trinity showed me the freedom I have in Christ. I learned to set boundaries, then how to extend them. I have learned not to give my power away, and to use it wisely.

I was in counseling for two years. My counselor was tender-hearted and tough-minded. I thought of quitting more than once. But the Holy Spirit kept nudging me to continue: "It is not time to leave yet. You will both know when it is. Don't go away mad—go away healed.

Now I am healed. I enjoy each new day. The desire of my heart is to reach out to others as Trinity reached out to me. II Timothy 1:7 is the verse I have claimed for my life: "For God did not give us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of sound mind." As my faith increased through counseling, my fear decreased.

God has restored the years the locusts have taken. "Call unto me and I will answer thee, yea, I will show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not." (Jeremiah 33:3)

-Trinity Client

Not long ago on a visit with my counselor at Trinity Counseling, I confessed that I did not know what to say other than, emotionally I felt pretty numb, and my mind seemed blank most days. I could have felt embarrassed at spending the money (Trinity's and mine) and taking his time that others could have certainly used to express their problems. Yet, he patiently and kindly listened to my small offerings that day and seemed undisturbed at the long periods of silence. Although I knew something deep was taking place during the silence, I could not imagine what it was.

It was only after I left that I realized it had been one of our most significant meetings. I left feeling truly valued as a person, valued enough that he did not merely endure the silence, he entered into the silence with me. In doing so, it seemed that he sat with me in a very dark, painful place of my life, a land and place of no words. His being with me in that still, numb, silent place was like the healing balm of Gilead, or Aaron's oil flowing down from the very throne of God over all my fears of rejection at not having anything seemingly valuable to bring to the table that day. That seemed pretty amazing to me in light of the fact that we live in a world where the ability to express oneself verbally is our main and most valued form of communication. I found much more than acceptance that day. His ability to join with me in this silent place of suffering validated my entire personhood.

-Trinity Client