Greater Purpose Counseling, LLC

Greater Purpose Counseling, LLC We all have a 'Greater Purpose' in life than our current situation. Just like the seasons change the leaves on a tree, our situations in life change.

Our perspectives in life change. Our walk with Christ changes through the hills and valleys of life.

Look for the rainbows through the storm. The storm is temporary and will pass.
10/27/2025

Look for the rainbows through the storm.

The storm is temporary and will pass.

10/24/2025

Slow down to watch a sunset.
Slow down to listen to the waves.
Slow down to thank God for another day.

Teach them to love nature.Show them how to slow down. Kids will love what you love. Kids will respect what you respect. ...
10/23/2025

Teach them to love nature.
Show them how to slow down.

Kids will love what you love.
Kids will respect what you respect.

Kids will only slow down if you teach them by demonstrating slowing down.

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Here we grow again with our newest intern Erin King! We are excited to welcome her back!Erin will be supervised by Cryst...
10/22/2025

Here we grow again with our newest intern Erin King!

We are excited to welcome her back!

Erin will be supervised by Crystal Livengood, LCSW.

Availability will be Thursdays in office and virtual other days.

I’m so excited that she is clearing our current group with Taylor!

She IS ACCEPTING new clients to work with at the $30 intern rate.

Welcome back Erin!!

10/21/2025

Life hack: beach day!

We always get looks for our ‘professional setup’ as we are told.

Here are some of our favorite hacks that have stood the test of time.

Pop up canopy & flags help give location when your in the water or go walking.

Dry food in a bag that can be hung off the ground.

Frozen ice bottles versus ice for all day coolness. Extra hack is putting insulation inside the cooler. We use a gallon pitcher to hold the sandwiches so they don’t get smashed.

Hanging towel rack that also holds small trash bags.

The showstopper that people always ask about is the over the door shoe rack to hold everything. We have learned through the years buy ones with holes so sand don’t come home with you.

When we post up, it’s all day so we come prepared to be out all day.

Even if….. I still know God is real. Even when the prayer is not answered how we think it should, God is real. Even when...
10/20/2025

Even if….. I still know God is real.

Even when the prayer is not answered how we think it should, God is real.

Even when the hardest decision creates distance, God is real.

Even if the healing looks different than our human hearts can bare, God is real.

Being a Christian means still following God through the pain. Through the loss.

Through the uncertainty laced with ‘Why?’

We all will be given an ‘Even if’ moment where we choose to walk away because the outcome does not match our desires. Or we lean into the realness of God.

10/17/2025

Announcement:

The trauma women’s group is officially FULL!!

If you missed the cut off or were interested, we will run the group again at the beginning of the year in person and potentially virtually.

We are so excited about the healing and learning that is going to happen over the next 10 weeks!!!

    Don’t forget to reach out if you want to participate with this group!!! It is filling up and only a few spots are le...
10/15/2025



Don’t forget to reach out if you want to participate with this group!!!

It is filling up and only a few spots are left!

You do not have to have the workbook by tomorrow but will need it by the following Thursday.

Don’t hesitate to reach out if you want to join or have questions.

Be kind. You do not know what someone is facing. In a culture where filtering for acceptance is the normal, honest about...
10/13/2025

Be kind. You do not know what someone is facing.

In a culture where filtering for acceptance is the normal, honest about what people are living with or facing is suppressed.

Just because someone is smiling does not always mean they are OK.
Just because someone says they are OK does not mean that they are.

Kindness goes a long way when someone is struggling with a different reality than what society says their filter should be. Or how culture says people should handle a life event.

Being a kind human is free. You might be the only kindness a person experienced in a day, a week, or a month.

Luke 6:31:
"And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them." (ESV)
"Treat other people as you would like them to treat you." (Jewish Study Bible)
"Do to others as you would like them to do to you." (NLT)

Friday Funny: To be a fly in the room with these men. “Girl you know it’s true….ooohh ooohh I love you”.
10/10/2025

Friday Funny:

To be a fly in the room with these men.

“Girl you know it’s true….ooohh ooohh I love you”.

10/10/2025

World Mental Health Day

I appreciate all the awareness around mental health that was not there when I was growing up.

I am thankful for all the support from people to help others.

I am thankful for churches that continue to utilize clinical therapists to support their people. I am thankful for ministry teams that do not see clinical people as a threat.

Now we have awareness. There are thousands of videos everywhere about mental health. It is time to use the skills and move into actions. Actions that take people in every church and all denominations into healing the whole body of Christ.

Let’s keep healing loudly so others know that it is safe to come out and heal.

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The Birth of GPC

Greater Purpose Counseling (GPC) started when I continued to meet people in the Church struggling with various life situations after they were continually told to, ‘Pray on it’, but not encouraging to seek Clinical Professional support. While prayer works, needs to be involved with life situations, there are times that a Clinical Therapist is needed. We are created with a mind, a body, and a spirit that feels all emotions humanly possible. We are not always protected from learned behaviors, internal chemical make-up, or external trauma. As I have met with more people in the Church, it became clear that there was not enough Clinical Professionals to support the people who seek after the heart of God. There are times in life a person may struggle within the Spiritual realm, with needing to change inappropriate learned behaviors, need support with an internal chemical stressor, or need to learn how to live life after trauma.

Many times people struggle with comorbid mental health diagnosis and need support in being able to identify how to separate the various stressors, while applying appropriate coping skills in a judgement free space. It also became clear the while many Church Leaders desire to support the Saints of the Church, they lack in the training due to it not being available to them. Training that supports the Church Team on how to function cohesively, identify mental health behaviors, be trauma informed, learn current language, or identify when they need to refer out will help support the Body of Christ with healing. The lack of continued training has the potential to cause members of the Body of Christ to walk away forever. GPC also recognizes a lack of Clinical support for Ministers and their families when life turns upside down. Just as Job lost everything, our Ministers and their families go through trials that need Clinical support without judgement for being human during very human experiences.

My goal is to support the Body of Christ by bridging both Evidenced Based Clinical Therapy combined with Biblical Christian faith by meeting people where they are at and moving forward through their journey. GPC wants to empower Ministry Teams with education to be able to support the Saints in their home churches or schools. The logo for GPC embodies that we all have roots that support us that are unseen by many people. Situations in our life change as the seasons change the tree with various colors to represent our emotions. As the leaves fall and dissolve, our struggles, stressors, and trauma should also fall off and dissolve with the help of God, prayer, and Clinical therapy. Through the process of therapy, emotions should change, improve, and be full of life while moving forward.