Women Counseling Women: Biblical Answers to Life's Difficult Problems (Fitzpatrick)

Multitudes of women struggle daily with negative habits and addictions, emotions such as anger and depression, various kinds of loneliness, and other difficulties experienced by mothers, wives, or singles.

Here is a rich counseling resource that looks to the Bible alone as being sufficient to address our every need. Author Elyse Fitzpatrick and several contributors are all qualified biblical counselors skilled at interweaving the perfect wisdom of God’s Word with heartfelt compassion and concern for those who need help. Among the topics are…

• emotions, worry, and depression
• eating disorders and habitual struggles and sins
• verbal abuse and pornography
• singleness, marriage, and parenting
• grief and caregiving

Designed for both self-use and as a guide for counseling others, Women Counseling Women offers answers that will encourage and endure because God’s Word is timeless and full of wisdom for the problems women face.

Table of Contents:

Women Who Teach What Is Good – Elyse Fitzpatrick

Part 1: A Woman and the Word

1. Biblical Counseling: Real Help for Real Women – Elyse Fitzpatrick

2. Do God’s Promises Apply to You? – Janet Rickett

3. Interpreting God’s Word Accurately – Barbara Enter

4. Spiritual Discernment: How Can I know What Is True? – Karen Avinelis

5. Establishing a Biblical Ministry to Women – Maureen Bonner

Part 2: A Woman and Her Emotions

6. Dealing with Your Emotions God’s Way – Mary Wilkin

7. Christ, God’s Answer to Your Fear – Janie Street

8. Help for Overcoming Anger – Martha Peace

9. The Difficult Road Through Depression – Mary Sommerville

10. About Medicines: Finding a Balance – Laura Hendrickson

Part 3: A Woman and Her Relationships

11. Single Women and the Test of Loneliness – Joan Kulper

12. Way Beyond the Man of Your Dreams: Help for Single Moms – Lynn Denby

13. Does Anyone Hear Me?: Facing Loneliness in Marriage – Venessa Ellen

14. Healing for Hidden Wounds from Verbal Abuse – Debra Gentry

15. Faithful Parenting: Reaching Your Child’s Heart – Barbara Scroggins

16. The Perfect Mom Syndrome – Connie Larson

17. Raising Children Who Are Challenged – Laura Hendrickson

18. Training Teens in the True Faith – Jan Steenback

19. Hope for Caregivers of the Elderly – Holly Drew

Part 4: A Woman and Specific Problems

20. Help for Habitual Overeaters – Shannon McCoy

21. Breaking the Chain of Generation Sin – Nanci McMannis

22. The Taboo Topic: Pornography and Women – Rachel Coyle

23. Women Struggling with Same-sex Attraction – Karrie Hahn 

Editor 

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick (MA, Trinity Theological Seminary) is a counselor, a retreat and conference speaker, and the head of Counsel from the Cross Ministries. Fitzpatrick has authored 18 books.