Meet the Founder

I trained to be a high school teacher when I appeared to stumble into counseling shortly after I graduated with a bachelor’s degree.  it was the summer of 1968 when I went with a friend to to pick up her welfare check and I noticed that the agency was looking for case managers.  I applied that day and in a few weeks, I was working as a case worker within public assistance.  After 5 years, I decided to take counseling to the next level so I entered into a masters degree program which led to certification and then a license to practice.  So I have actually been engaged in some form of counseling for over 50 years.  Once I became an ordained minister, as a pastor in the church, I began  to fuse secular counseling experience with spirituality.  In the church that I founded in 1996 called Healing Waters, I set up my private practice in an office in the  church’s building. I began online work in 2002. 

I find that a  major difference between secular therapies and deliverance counseling is centered   in the biblical reality of the existence of evil spirits and their impact upon human personality.  I know of no other approach like deliverance counseling, other than the work of a psychiatrist, the late M. Scott Peck, who passed in 2005.  In his book “People of the Lie” published in 1983, Peck describes the cases of several of his clients who came to him whom Peck found resistant to any form of help. 

Peck  then entered into a study of evil and began to collaborate with Catholic priests who were specialists in exorcism.  Peck began to think that there is a special category of people who are just plain evil and before he died, Peck described the essence  of evil in psychological terms, suggesting that evil could eventually become a psychiatric diagnosis.  Peck was one of those secular therapists that pointed to narcissism as a type of evil, with narcissistic personality disorder recently becoming quite popular online.

Intercessory Prayer and Deliverance Counseling

Deliverance counseling goes a lot further than any strategy Peck considered. For  from a strictly  biblical perspective, all human beings are sinners, with all having fallen short of the glory of God. I have found that casting out of demons and preparing the captive to fight in mental health cases  may not be the intervention strategy of choice. If it is the work of dignities aka fallen angels who cause various seekers to miss the mark  when they came  to Jesus, as a deliverance counselor, I must be the one to prepare the case for intercessory prayer and ask the Lord to rebuke the fallen angels  for the sake of the client. In other words, I fall on the mercy of the court of heaven  by coming boldly before the Throne, sometimes in the midst of the deliverance counseling session, and in prayer, present the client’s case to the Father, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. For as the scripture declares,it is the Lord Jesus who  presently serves as the main Lawyer, in His role as the Advocate.  

Research and Investigation

Among the clients of deliverance counseling i have served since 1996, several have been those who were diagnosed by the mental health system who took on medication. Enabled with a semblance of normalcy by their prescription drugs, these clients  still remained under constant demonic torment.  Deliverance counseling has been able to either significantly reduce and in some instance totally remove the tormenting conditions. 

Our first stage of emphasis is research and investigation. In the natural, when a district attorney has taken a case to court, this is the culmination of a thorough investigation that has exposed the breaking of a law.  In deliverance counseling, united together in agreement, the client and the deliverance worker gather evidence against what fallen angels have presented to the Father against the client.  Our spiritual position within the research and investigation stage is akin to the “expert witness,”  Together, counselor and client receive light or “enlightenment.”

Client enlightenment is our primary goal.  Enlightenment is the potential for truth to be revealed, an essential condition of vision.  For we search for every demonic wile that evil spirits have set in motion to keep the counselor in the dark about each client’s true spiritual condition. We seek accuracy in discernment by being able to perceive character, detect trends and uncover unseen motives.  There are those divinely chosen occasions when the Holy Spirit reveals “what has been going on.”