Vision.
We describe here the sort of service we want to grow towards in 2013 and beyond.
- We recognise that life is challenging and that out of our circumstances and our humanness arise issues of mental health, trauma and abuse, relationship breakdown, financial struggles, addiction, poor sense of self, grief and loss, and many other challenges that affect our day-to-day living. We aim to provide compassionate, holistic and professional counselling for individuals, couples and families.
- We believe that the world around us is hectic, often chaotic and that each of us has an innate desire for a source of peace and wholeness in the midst of what can feel an unsettled reality. We believe that Christ embodies that peace. Therefore, we seek to partner with him by being Christlike, compassionate and peace-loving.
- Mill Park Community Care is faith-based, but not faith-biased. We aim to help people from all walks of life, irrespective of religion, race, disability or sexual orientation.
- Our counsellors are trained and qualified to assist people in working through life challenges. We see this therapeutic relationship as both a professional and a caring relationship, incorporating an ethical framework with genuine compassion. We do not see ourselves as life experts, but rather as fellow-travellers to journey with, listeners who will sometimes offer insight and life skills to help manage and resolve issues.
- We see the whole person and believe that wholeness is a combination of emotional, physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being. Counselling will sometimes work on all those factors of wholeness and will sometimes focus on one or two areas, always in a client-centred way.
- We believe that the client is an inherently valuable person just as they are, and comes to counselling with a wealth of experience, knowledge and insight, which the counsellor will aim to draw out through the process of therapy.
- In partnership with Mill Park Baptist Church, Mill Park Community Care aims to create supportive links between church and a professional counselling service, offering clients other forms of support (apart from counselling), such as educational seminars/support groups, access to financial/practical support, providing caring/mentoring relationships with laypeople of the church, etc.
Our Core Values.
Our values express what we’re trying to do and be.
As members of the Christian Counsellors Association of Australia (CCAA), our counsellors share the same values of the CCAA:
Serving Jesus Christ in the world
- Personal and professional integrity and accountability
- Integrating biblical theology and principles with counselling theory and practice
- Inclusiveness, community, networking, partnership, empowerment
- Being a distinctive Christian presence and voice
- Professional competence, excellence and leadership in Christian counselling