- $600 or 3 monthly payments of $200
Standards of Care 2026
- Course
- 66 Lessons
- Starts Jan 1, 2026
Standards of Care is a 12-month course designed to offer both continuing education for seasoned biblical counselors as well as an introduction to a biblical counseling model. Each session will feature a lecture, reading assignments, and an optional live discussion and Q&A time offered quarterly with Fieldstone Executive Director, Jonathan Holmes.
Contents
NEW | Classroom Tutorial
Standards of Care is a self-paced course and will close on December 31, 2026.
LIVE Quarterly Discussion Details
As you make your way through the twelve lecture videos, there will be four quarterly calls where instructor Jonathan Holmes will engage with the content and answer questions. The live Zoom calls will primarily cover the content that has been covered for that quarter. All Zoom calls will take place from 11:00am - 12:00pm EST.
March 19, 2026 (Classes 1-3)
June 18, 2026 (Classes 4-6)
September 17, 2026 (Classes 7-9)
December 10, 2026 (Classes 10-12)
What if you are unable to attend at that time?
The live Zoom calls will be recorded and available to view for one month post-call.
Please use this Zoom link for each of the four calls: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8318922060
LIVE Q&A
1. History, Foundations, and Definitions of Biblical Counseling
Reading Assignment | What Is Biblical Counseling Anyway?
Reading Assignment | Definitions of Biblical Counseling.pdf
Reading Assignment | Four Models of Counseling in Pastoral Ministry
Reading Assignment | Schools of Christian Counseling
Class One | Handout
Class One | Lecture (Part One)
Class One | Lecture (Part Two)
2. Understanding the Sufficiency of Scripture
Reading Assignment | Scripture is Sufficient, But to do What.pdf
Reading Assignment | The Biblical in Biblical Counseling
Reading Assignment | Common Grace and Theological Scholarship
Class Two | Handout
Class Two | Lecture
3. Using Scripture in Counseling
Listening Assignment | How Does Scripture Speak Today?
Reading Assignment | No More Bible Band Aids
Reading Assignment | What is Ministry of the Word?
Class Three | Handout
Class Three | Lecture
4. The Biblical Process of Change
Reading Assignment | David Powlison Explains How Sanctification Works
Reading Assignment | How Christ Changes Us By His Grace
Reading Assignment | Sanctification- Balancing Grace and Obedience through the Ages
Class Four | Handout
Class Four | Lecture
5. Understanding Biblical Anthropology - Embodied Souls
Reading Assignment | Understanding the Influences on the Human Heart
Reading Assignment | Dichotomy or Trichotomy: How the Doctrine of Man Shapes the Treatment of Depression
Reading Assignment | Why Biblical Counselors Need a Theology of the Body
Class Five | Handout
Class Five | Lecture
6. Basics of the Counseling Process
Reading Assignment | How Do You Know If Someone Is Ready to Change?
Reading Assignment | What Does a Good First Session Look Like?
Class Six | Handout
Class Six | Lecture
7. Navigating Our Counselee's World
Pre-watch Assignment | James K.A. Smith
Reading Assignment | How to Reach the West Again
Class Seven | Handout
Class Seven | Lecture
8. Mental Health, Diagnoses, and the DSM
Reading Assignment | How Do You Help a Psychologized Counselee?
Reading Assignment | A Discussion Among Clergy Pastoral Counseling Talks with Secular Psychology
Reading Assignment | Listening to Prozac
Reading Assignment | 2022 State of Mental Health in America
Class Eight | Handout
Class Eight | Lecture
9. Medication and Biblically-Faithful Integration
Reading Assignment | Michael Emlet Blog Series
Reading Assignment | How Does Scripture Teach Us to Redeem Psychology
Class Nine | Handout
Class Nine | Lecture
10. A Proposal for Biblically-Faithful Integration
Reading Assignment | Cure of Souls and the Modern Psychotherapies
Repeat Reading Assignment | How Does Scripture Teach Us To Redeem Psychology
Reading Assignment | Statement on EMDR by the BCC
Class Ten | Handout
Class Ten | Lecture
11. Understanding Abuse
Reading Assignment | Should Wives Submit to Abusive Husbands (Joint Statement)
Reading Assignment | Counseling Harmed Spouses
Resource | Safety Plan
Resource | Abuser to Servant Diagram by Pierre and Wilson
Resource | Confession/Apology by The Gospel Care Collective
Class Eleven | Handout
Class Eleven | Lecture
12. On Trauma-Informed Care
Reading Assignment | Heart & Physical Wounds
Reading Assignment | The Impact of Trauma
Reading Assignment | Shame and Trauma
Class Twelve | Handout
Class Twelve | Lecture
Class Twelve | Resource List