About The Counseling Center

Our Counseling Center seeks to provide a safe, non-judgmental atmosphere where people in need may receive Christ-centered, non-denominational Christian counseling including mental health, marital and family counseling or deliverance ministry.

The Christian counselors who work with us are ordained ministers of the Gospel who are trained and experienced in their field, comfortable in moving in the gifts of the Holy Spirit and practiced in blending truth with practical application.

One of the things that makes our Counseling Center different from others is the ease with which the counselors move in the revelatory and healing gifts of the Holy Spirit. Moving in these gifts is a part of who we are and how we live our daily lives.

A service fee of $40 per session is charged. A session may last one hour or more. If you cannot afford $40 per session, we ask you to be honest with us and we will do our best to work out a viable plan. We want you to receive the help you need.


Issues We Address

Behavioral Addictions

  • Gambling

  • Substance abuse

  • Narcissistic behavior patterns

  • Obsessive behaviors

Emotional Recovery 

  • Burn-out recognition, prevention, and recovery

  • Performance-based self-worth and identity

  • Religious Wounds

Relational Issues

  • Boundary setting without guilt

  • Communication skills

  • Manipulation and control

  • Personality conflicts

Faith-Related Issues

  • Clarifying and recognizing core beliefs

  • Improving intimacy with the Lord

  • Increasing spiritual maturity

Mental Health

  • Anxiety

  • Depression


Counselors


Lidy Cummings

Serving as Office Administrator, Lidy has been part of the Covenant family for several years. She is licensed and ordained through The Covenant Center, and has also received a pastoral counseling endorsement. In addition, Lidy has received intensive inner healing training under Pat Stark. Lidy is known for her outgoing personality and ability to edify and encourage others. Her greatest desire is to help people walk into the fullness of their destiny in the Kingdom. Lidy is bilingual, speaking fluent English and Spanish


Wanda Hollingsworth

Wanda has served in active ministry for several years and in a variety of ways, including teaching, missions, and counseling around the globe. She received formal Christian training in leadership, discipleship, evangelism, theology, and prayer ministry with Elijah House Ministries under John and Paula Sanford. Wanda is an ordained minister through The Covenant Center, and is moving in her gifting as a prayer counselor and inner healing minister.


Pat Stark

Pat has over 30 years of counseling experience in the area of deep spiritual and emotional healing. Her gift is in dealing with issues lying beneath the surface that keep people wounded and trapped, unable to become who they were originally created to be. Pat's joy is to bring keys to God's people, helping them to cooperate with the deep work of the Holy Spirit in their lives, resulting in newfound freedom, peace, joy, and increased intimacy with Jesus.  

Pat released a book in 2010. Born to Fly, The Story of Life, and co-authored Lost Heart? contains some of the keys that can enable you to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in becoming free from the bondages of the past, thereby releasing you to live more fully in the present with an excitement and joy toward your future.


Susan Goodman

Susan has been an integral part of The Covenant Center since 2007. She received her missionary training certification and ordination from Faith Acres Bible School in Scotland. Susan has also received her counseling endorsement and ordination from The Covenant Center. At Glasgow University Susan completed her masters degree in Social Science. Having lived in the United Kingdom, the United States, and four other countries as a missionary, she has used her gift for counsel and encouragement with many diverse cultures and communities. Whether casually over coffee or in a more formal setting, Susan is able to put young and old at ease, and bring hope, encouragement and the Word of the Lord to those who request it.


Kathy Johnson, MS, MHC

Kathy is a licensed and ordained minister through The Covenant Center with a Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling from Nova Southeastern University.  

She has counseling experience with most ages, working with both individuals and groups. Her areas of expertise include domestic violence (survivor and perpetrator), incest/rape survival, trauma and post-traumatic stress recovery, burn-out recovery and prevention, anxiety disorders, abuse recovery and prevention, addictions, mood and emotional disorders, personality disorders, vocational counseling, coping skills related to certain mental illnesses, family dynamics, crisis of faith, coping with grief, personality and learning styles assessment.

Kathy has authored books about spiritual warfare and depression and is working on other books as well. She works as part of the deliverance ministry at The Covenant Center and is experienced in dream interpretation.


Nicole Welch

Nicole is a consultant, author, co-authored Lost Heart?, business owner, public speaker, mental health therapist, a missionary, wife, mom, and a very blunt truth teller. She always gives you practical, powerful tools and steps to overcome relational and communication challenges. She lives in Lakeland Florida with her husband of 26 years and two beautiful children.


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Appointments

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