Amy Redden
Amy Redden is a graduate of Emporia State University with a Secondary English Educational Degree, and is now teaching in a small school in rural Kansas. She has a passion for teaching, mentoring, learning, missions, coffee, old books, and The Truth in God’s word. Amy also blogs at https://onlyafoolinhishands.wordpress.com/.
2 Posts
Amy Santarelli
A former teacher and homeschooling mom of 4, Amy has a heart for teaching and helping others. Married to Dave since 1992, they live on a hobby farm in the St. Louis area. Amy enjoys reading, gardening, playing with her grandchildren and learning about health. In helping others with health issues, she saw how the inner man affected the outer man, and vice versa. Working on her biblical counseling certificate with ACBC provided that much-needed missing link. For Amy, "helping people feel better physically is great, but aiding with issues of the heart is even better." You can find more about her hobby farm, health, and homeschooling adventures at https://chickendumplinggang.wordpress.com/
5 Posts
Anne Dryburgh
Anne Dryburgh, Ph.D., is an ACBC and IABC certified biblical counselor and a CABC (Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselor) who has been a missionary with Echoes International in Belgium since the 1990s. She coordinates RGI Europe, is a Truth in Love Biblical Counseling Center team member, is on the advisory board of Biblical Counselling Africa, and the advisory board of Fallen Soldiers March. Anne is the author of Debilitated and Diminished: Help for Women in Emotionally Abusive Marriages, and (Un)ashamed: Christ’s Transforming Hope for Rape Victims.Anne is currently certified as a biblical counselor with International Association of Biblical Counselors, American Academy of Biblical Counselors, and the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors.
31 Posts
Ellen Castillo
Ellen is a Certified Biblical Counselor at Truth In Love Biblical Counseling Center. She has an extensive background in counseling in the local church and in parachurch settings over the past 20+ years. She served for several years on the Biblical Counseling Coalition Council. She also has a background as a Women’s Ministry Director and as the Executive Director of a nonprofit counseling center. Currently, she is most passionate about coming alongside women and teens, and training others for one-another ministry in their sphere of influence. Ellen enjoys intergenerational ministry, the older mentoring the younger in various contexts. She has written a mentor training course for women, “One-Another Care, Applying the One-Another’s of Scripture” that is available at ellencastillo.com. She is married to Ray, and they enjoy spending time with their children and grandchildren at their home in Tomball, Texas.
34 Posts
Jenna Bogard
Jenna is certified with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC). She also holds an M.A. in Biblical Counseling: Sexual Addictions and a B.A. in Biblical Counseling. She currently resides in Illinois where she is blessed with the opportunity to homeschool her four children.
7 Posts
Julie Ganschow
Julie Ganschow has been involved in biblical counseling and discipleship for more than 25 years. She is passionate about heart change for life change. Julie is a gifted counselor and teacher, has authored numerous books and materials for biblical counseling, and co-authored a biblical counseling training course. She is a featured contributor in GriefShare and a frequent retreat and conference speaker. Julie is the founder and director of Reigning Grace Counseling Center and Biblical Counseling for Women. She has been writing a daily blog about women’s counseling issues since 2008. Julie holds a doctorate in biblical counseling, in addition to an M.A. in biblical counseling and certification with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC). She also serves on the Council Board for the Biblical Counseling Coalition. She makes her home in Kansas City, Missouri with her wonderful husband Larry. You can find her blog at bc4women.org and information about her ministries at rgcconline.org.
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Karen Gaul
Karen Gaul has been a biblical counselor since 1994, and has been certified with the ACBC since 1995. She enjoys speaking at ladies retreats, church groups, and other opportunities on specific issues and how to understand them in light of God’s Word. Karen has been married to Jamie since 1983, and she enjoys reading and studying. She also blogs at gracebiblicalcounselling.net.
9 Posts
Karen Pickering
Karen Pickering is a Biblical Counselor who specializes in discipleship. She is currently homeschooling one of her grandchildren and teaching an elementary music class. Karen has written a book called “Learning to Seek God’s Presence”. It is a ten-week study guide written for people who are broken by circumstances. Her blog can be found here. http://windowsofhisgrace.com/ Karen grew up in North Dakota and currently lives with her husband and granddaughter in Wisconsin.
21 Posts
Laurie Bennett
Laurie Bennett is a certified biblical counselor with the ACBC. She currently serves on staff at Reigning Grace Counseling Center. She has a passion for the Word of God and is humbled to teach, disciple, and counsel the sufficiency of Scripture to women at her local community church and at Reigning Grace. Married for over 30 years, Laurie and her husband, Brian, have three grown daughters, two son-in-laws, and the sweetest grandchildren. In her spare time, she gardens, raises honeybees and chickens, and crafts sourdough artisan breads with homemade jams.
2 Posts
Lesley Eischen
Lesley Eischen is a former homeschooling Mom and recently widowed. Lesley strives for the edification of women in Christ by facilitating Biblical literacy that equips women to effectively apply the Scriptures in God honoring, practical, and transforming ways; by having a deep burden to reconcile the brokenness we bear with the love, hope and restoration found only in Christ. Lesley has her Biblical Counseling certification through INS {Institute of Nouthetic Studies}. She is currently in Phase II of her ACBC Biblical Counseling certification. And as of January 2022, she will be a student at Spurgeon College, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, earning her BA degree in Biblical Counseling. When Lesley isn’t studying, she’s working at a non-profit whose mission is to rescue those who are homeless, hungry, abused or addicted, providing opportunities for hope, recovery and restoration through the love of Jesus Christ. Lesley can be found at her blog, The Hallowed Path: https://thehallowedpath.wordpress.com/
8 Posts
Linda Rice
Linda Rice holds an M.A. in Biblical Counseling from The Master’s University, is certified by the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, and has been counseling for more than fifteen years. Author of Parenting the Difficult Child: A Biblical Perspective on Reactive Attachment Disorder, she maintains a blog at seedsownpress.wordpress.com. She and her husband have three grown children, both biological and adopted. Besides counseling, Linda enjoys meeting with friends, piano, making cards, and watching birds in the back yard.
13 Posts
Stacie Gibson
Stacie Gibson is a wife and mom of four from Western New York. She is a certified biblical counselor with the ACBC and IABC and is involved in her church counseling ministry along side her husband, Matt. Stacie's heart is to give women hope through the Word of God.
3 Posts
Suzanne Holland
Suzanne Holland has been discipling women for over 20 years. She is an ACBC and IABC biblical counselor, and is a biblical counselor at Reigning Grace. She is especially passionate in helping those who struggle with chronic pain, disability, and fear of man issues. Suzanne holds a BA in Psychology, which she earned before becoming a believer. Providentially, this education has prepared her for the many counselees who come with diagnostic labels given them by secular mental health providers. Suzanne has been married to John for over 31 years. They have two adult sons, one lovely daughter-in-law, and a sweet little rescued Chihuahua named Ruby.
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