About Us
Christian Counseling Services provides Christ-centered counseling and encouragement to individuals and families. We are a ministry of Crosspointe Church in Valdosta, Georgia and of First Baptist Church in Tifton, Georgia. In addition, we provide Christian counseling services for many churches, businesses and organizations in South Georgia and North Florida. All counseling is based on principles from the Bible with no theories or methodologies applied which conflict with the truth of God’s Word. We want to help clients develop new skills and explore options for dealing with problems through the power of Christ. We understand that in the midst of difficult circumstances, having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ can enable us to make it through our pain and give us peace. We use reliable, biblically based principles and strategies to support and to encourage clients.
Our Counselors
Dr. Pat Patten, DCC, LCCC
Dr. Patten has been in ministry for over 30 years. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Valdosta State University and a Master of Divinity and Master of Religious Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He completed a year of Clinical Pastoral Education at Baylor University Medical Center. He also holds a doctorate in Christian Counseling and is a licensed Clinical Christian Counselor through the National Christian Counselor Association (NCCA). In addition he is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC).
Kay D. Patten, MAMFC, MARE
Mrs. Patten has a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Valdosta State University, a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Counseling, and a Master of Arts in Religious Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. She has over thirty years of experience in individual, family, marital, and group counseling. She has worked as a child therapist for North Florida Mental Health Center and as a counselor for a Christian psychiatrist. She specializes in working with women and teenage girls.
Our Beliefs
There exists only one God, creator, and sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally co-existing in three persons-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, are the inspired, inerrant and trustworthy Word of God, the complete revelation of His will for the salvation of human beings, and the final authority for all matters about which it speaks. Human nature derives from two historical personas, male and female, created in God’s image. They were created perfect, but they sinned, plunging themselves and all human beings into sin, guilt, suffering, and death.
The substitutionary death of Jesus Christ and his bodily resurrection provide the only ground for justification, forgiveness, and salvation for all who believe. Only those who trust in Him alone are born of the Holy Spirit and are true members of the Church; only they will spend eternity with Christ. The Holy Spirit is the agent of regeneration and renewal for believers in Jesus Christ. He makes the presence of Jesus Christ real in believers, and He comforts, guides, convicts, and enables believers to live in ways that honor Christ.
Ministry to persons acknowledges the complexity of humans as physical, social, psychological, and spiritual beings. The ultimate goal of Christian counseling is to help others move to personal wholeness, interpersonal competence, mental stability, and spiritual maturity.
Adapted from the Statement of Faith of the American Association of Christian Counselors.