Centre for Faith-Sensitive Counselling, Domestic Violence Victims and Trauma-informed Responses

The Centre specialises in the development of faith-sensitive and culturally appropriate counselling approaches and practice in diverse cultural contexts. We collaborate with counsellors and psychologists to help them integrate faith-sensitive and theological hermeneutics in counselling approaches with married couples, domestic violence victims, survivors and perpetrators, as well as survivors of other forms of related violence, including conflict-related sexual violence.

As a Centre, we are especially interested in:

• Diversifying and contextualising spiritual psychotherapy and counselling practices, overcoming the dominance of a single paradigm emanating from North American and Western European experiences.
• Integrating theological teachings and hermeneutics in counselling practices when counsellors are religious and serve religious clients.
• Evaluating the effects of spiritual practices and theological resources in counselling practices across different religious contexts and traditions.

We have collaborative projects that are active or in development with several partner organisations, including the Fnot Psychosocial Counselling Organization in Ethiopia.

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