He no longer workes as a minister. He is a full time Certified Pastoral Counselor. At the time I did not know the difference from a T or Counselor or even Psychiatrist. I thought they all were trained the same way and they all knew the same info in reference to mental health...A friend from church suggested this guy. Also having his office in the church was a safe feeling for me. Would you believe I can not go into a church building anymore without having severe panic attacks. Not only did he mess me up, he messed up my son....

My son (6th grade at the time) and I walked in this man's office arm and arm. (my son was having problems dealing with the pending divorce is why he was in counseling)... Few months into whatever you want call what that so called counselor did, my son came home demanding to see his baby books and demanded to know why all the pages of his baby book were not filled out. That I did not love him. And he started venting all his anger at me... Some kind of good professional help.. eh??? Umm it was his father that never called him or picked him up. And when his father did pick him up his father would drop him at his uncle's house and leave to go on a date. My son would call me crying so I'd go pick him up.. GRRRRRRRRR at that counselor..

Anyway.. off to check out the reading material you suggested on CBT.... Thanks...

PS: MY HUMBLE OPINION is that preachers should stick to preaching and keep their lil heads out of the mental health field....