Belief Therapy

What Is It?

12 Axioms of Belief Therapy

The 12 Axioms of Belief Therapy

1. Man was created to see things from God’s perspective. God-like thinking was necessary for the dominion management Creator God gave to man. (Gen. 2:15)

2. People do what they do because they believe what they believe. (Prov. 23:7; Mark 7:6-23) The source of destructive consequent behavior is our belief system.

3. Jesus established the Belief Therapy system in the book of Matthew chapters 5, 6& 7, when He said, “You have heard it said ….. but I say unto you.” He exposed a lie, half-truth or godless tradition and replaced it with the truth.

4. A lie is as powerful as the truth if you believe it. A person is made free from the bondage of a lie when he/she replaces the lie with the truth. (John 8:31-36)

5. Man is a sinner by nature, by choice and by practice. Eve chose to believe Satan’s lie. (Gen. 3:1-13; Romans 3:23)

6. God is always right. When human viewpoint is in conflict with Divine viewpoint, God is always right. The Bible is Belief Therapy’s body of truth. (Isa. 55: 7-9; 2 Peter 1:3)

7. Belief is the most powerful healing value known to man. (Luke 18:27)

8. The mind is the battlefield. (Rom. 12:1-2)

9. Positional truth is the fundamental principle essential to a constructive, healthy and godly personal identity. A healthy self-concept of who we are “in Christ” is necessary for a healthy self-worth concept. Positional Identity Disorder, trying to become who you already are, is the Christian’s most common disorder. (Col. 2:9; Col. 3:1-4; Romans 6)

10. All addiction is identified in the Bible as bondage. (Rom. 1:21-23; Rom. 6:14-18)

11. Life-controlling problems have a spiritual root regardless of a possible organic disorder. (John 9:1-7)

12. In the presence of cognitive dissonance, a person must perform an emotional by-pass procedure and act upon the truth whether he/she feel like it or not. (James 1:8)

Belief Therapy Credentials

The Therapon Institute and Belief Therapy credentials are not state credentials. They are, however, independent, faith-based, Christian, Biblical, complementary and alterative credentials. Certified and Licensed Belief Therapists use this distinctive mark to announce their association with Belief Therapy and to distinguish themselves from others who are in the faith-based counseling field. Therapon is an approved education provider for all four Texas licensure boards and for the National Board of Certified Counselors.

The Therapon Institute offers the following independent faith-based credentials:

Certified Belief Therapist – CBT
Licensed Belief Therapist – LBT
Licensed Pastoral Counselor In Belief Therapy -LPC
Licensed Anger Resolution Counselor In Belief Therapy - LARC
Licensed Family & Marriage Counselor In Belief Therapy – LFMC
Licensed Sex Addiction Counselor In Belief Therapy – LSAC
Licensed Christian Social Worker In Belief Therapy – LCSW
Licensed Christian Child Care Worker In Belief Therapy – LCCCW
Licensed Crisis Counselor In Belief Therapy – LCC
Licensed Chemical Addiction Counselor In Belief Therapy - LCAC

The Role of The Belief Therapist

The Belief Therapist, unless he/she is a licensed professional, is a paraprofessional personal human development therapon. The Belief Therapist uses this distinctive mark to announce his/her association with Belief Therapy and to distinguish themselves from others who are in the faith-based counseling field.

The task of the Belief Therapist is to act as a discernotician, therapon, educator, Scripturologist and technical consultant who assesses maladaptive cognitive processes (lies people believe) and works with the Christian client to design learning experiences that will replace the lies he/she is believing with the truth of God’s Word and the behavioral and affective patterns with which they correlate. For the Belief Therapist, listening must therefore be below the surface. Listening includes spiritual discernment. (1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 12:10; Hebrews 5:14)

The Belief Therapist is to emphasize the primacy of agape love and the need to develop a warm, genuine and emphatic relationship with the client that is collaborative. (John 13:34-35; Galatians 5:13; Galatians 5:22; Ephesians 4:2; Ephesians 4:15; Ephesians 5:2; Philippians 2:1-2; 1 Thessalonians 4:9)

The Belief Therapist must deal Scripturally and more adequately with the past, especially unresolved developmental issues or childhood experiences that are affecting their present pain, with the judicious use of prayer for healing. (Philippians 3:13; James 5:13-16)

The Belief Therapist must also pay special attention to the meaning of spiritual, experiential and mystical aspects of faith and life and not overemphasize the rationalistic dimension. (Matthew 17:14-21; Hebrews 11:1-3)

The Belief Therapist should always be sensitive to the possibility of demonic involvement in some cases. (Ephesians 6:12)

The Belief Therapist should use Biblical truth and not relativistic, empirically oriented values in conducting belief restructuring to change problematic thinking, darkened emotions and godless, negative, maladaptive behavior. (Romans 12:1-2)

The Belief Therapist also emphasizes the ministry of the Holy Spirit in processing inner healing, cognitive, behavioral and emotional change. (John 14:17; John 16:13)

The Belief Therapist may use only those techniques that are consistent with Biblical truth, morality and ethics and not simplistically use whatever techniques are perceived to work. (John 14:16; Matthew 7:14; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Colossians 2:6-7; 2 Tim. 3;16)

The Belief Therapist may utilize rigorous outcome research methodology before making definitive conclusions about the superiority (not just the general effectiveness) of Belief Therapy. (Galatians 6:4; 2 Corinthians 13:5; 1 Thessalonians 5:21)