Maximize Your Potential!
Bring hope and healing to clients who share your worldview and trust your perspective by becoming a Verified Counselor of the Focus on the Family Christian Counselors Network. You’ll receive professional support, valuable Christian resources, and great-fit referrals from Focus on the Family. As a member of our counseling network, you’ll feel better equipped to walk in your calling and serve your clients.
Membership Benefits
Last year we helped almost 14,000 people who called us for consultation and provided over 150,000 referrals to those who searched our online database.
With your annual investment of $125, which supports our family ministry and counselor directory, you will receive the following membership benefits:
- Your profile listed within Focus on the Family’s trusted Find A Counselor Tool
- A subscription to Focus on the Family magazine
- A bi-monthly CCN e-newsletter, including valuable information and timely encouragement
- An online membership seal to help you identify yourself as part of our Network
- A Focus on the Family Store member discount
- Two free peer-to-peer consults annually offering spiritual, emotional & clinical support
Sample FREE Resources Right Now
- Recovering from an Affair includes input from numerous marriage and family therapists who have accumulated years of counseling experience with couples through Focus on the Family’s counseling service and Hope Restored marriage intensives.
- Alive to Thrive takes a truly preventative approach to suicide prevention. We discuss issues that we know can lead to suicide, and we teach you how to address them long before your child might ever entertain thoughts of ending his or her life.
Requirements for Consideration
To apply for the Christian Counselors Network you must:
- Hold a state mental health credential (a full or provisional license) as a Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychiatric Nurse, Social Worker, Professional Counselor or Marriage & Family Therapist.
- Be able to personally serve as the care provider for clients referred by Focus on the Family.
- Have personal faith and values matching Focus on the Family’s that integrate with your life and professional practice.
- Integrate your training, faith and licensure. (Read more about Focus on the Family’s Perspectives on the Compatibility of Christianity and Psychology)
We appreciate you taking the time to complete this application process. Our constituents put a great deal of trust in our ministry to only refer to clinicians whose values on core issues closely align with that of Focus On The Family. We take the responsibility of their trust very seriously and, because of this, our application review process is thorough and may take 3-4 weeks for a response. We commit to communicating with our applicants as quickly as possible.
719-533-6718 (Phone)
719-548-4643 (Fax)
EMAIL US CounselingDepartment@fotf.org