Our Mission
Christian Counseling Associates (CCA) was formed in January of 2009, with the focus of providing Christian based counseling services to Western Pennsylvania. CCA continues to expand and now serves clients in over 80 locations in Pennsylvania, Arkansas, New York, Ohio, West Virginia and internationally in Liberia, West Africa. Most of our offices are located in community church settings, as we seek to collaborate with Christian organizations to provide counseling and faith based community support. CCA was formed in response to the overwhelming demand for competent Christian counseling for those who struggle with mental health, and substance abuse issues as well as any life challenges.
Policy: CCA Counselors will strive to engage the Mission, Vision, and Values of CCA in their daily work with clients and colleagues.
MISSION STATEMENT
To glorify God by providing excellent, accessible, and comprehensive Christian Counseling services to our clients.
VISION
Our associates are experts in the field of counseling and highly trained from accredited institutions. We have a heart for God, for families, and for those who struggle with issues or personal problems. Our associates are members of the American Association of Christian Counselors and strive to be leaders in their local faith communities to help families and individuals understand and overcome the issues they face in today’s challenging culture. Our associates are here to serve our clients. We serve both Christians who want their faith integrated into the counseling process and those holding any beliefs or attitudes toward spirituality. We are a team of dedicated professionals that help identify the core issues that have resulted in emotional or personal problems, and efficiently develop strategies to resolve these issues.
Values
- Jesus Christ—and His revelation in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible as the inspired Word of God—is the pre-eminent model for Christian counseling practice, ethics, caregiving activities, and the final authority for all matters about which it speaks.
- CCA counselors will maintain a committed, intimate, and dedicated relationship with the worldwide church, and with the local body of believers.
- CCA counselors acknowledge that counseling, at its best, is a Spirit-led process of change, transformation, and growth, geared to help others mature in Christ by the skillful synthesis of counselor-assisted spiritual, psychosocial, familial, biomedical, and environmental interventions.
- CCA counselors are dedicated to Jesus Christ as their ‘first love,’ to excellence in client service, to ethical integrity in practice, and to respect for everyone encountered.
- CCA counselors accord the highest respect to biblical revelation regarding the sanctity and defense of human life, the dignity of human personhood, and the sanctity of marriage and family life.
- CCA counselors value the biblical and constitutional rights of Religious Freedom, Free Speech, and Free Association, which protect the Christian counselor’s public identity and the freedom to incorporate spiritual practices into all forms of counseling and intervention.
- CCA counselors are mindful of their representation of Christ and His church as Ambassadors of Reconciliation and are dedicated to honoring their commitments and obligations in all social and professional relationships.
(AACC Code of Ethics “Biblical-Ethical Foundations”, 2004)