by Christian Counseling Center | Jul 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Trapped in a struggle you cannot overcome? Wrestling with patterns you can’t break on your own? Carrying a burden you cannot seem to lay down? 12 Steps for Christian Growth is a support group focused on real life, real hope, and real transformation. 13 weekly...
by Christian Counseling Center | Jul 16, 2025 | Blog
Looking for a light read at the beach? Well, the books here are probably not that, but might bring some new perspectives for you this summer on things like faith, mental health, and wellbeing. Submitted below are a few of my recommendations for some summer reading and...
by Christian Counseling Center | Apr 2, 2025 | Anxiety
Back in the 1980s, when drug use in America was quite high, there was a famous PSA released to combat this epidemic. It features a man holding an egg in a kitchen near a frying pan. The egg, he says, is our brain, while the frying pan represents drugs. He then cracks...
by Christian Counseling Center | Mar 5, 2025 | Depression
When you’ve been in the business of counseling or pastoring for a while, you begin to notice how life’s difficulties become almost seasonal: anxiety and stress in the Fall as school starts, loneliness and family disruption around the holidays, and sadness in the...
by Christian Counseling Center | Dec 11, 2024 | News
Dear friends, Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! My name is Dr. Brian Mesimer, and I am the new Executive Director of the Christian Counseling Center of First Presbyterian Church. I have been on staff here at the Center since 2015, while most recently...
by Christian Counseling Center | Nov 25, 2024 | Anxiety, Depression
How do you answer that question? Are the holidays a time of rejoicing, gratitude, and giving? Or, are they a time of pressure, stress, and expectations? The holiday season provides a break, a distraction, from the rhythm of life. That break can...
by Christian Counseling Center | Jul 15, 2024 | Anxiety, Depression, Fear
When I was a kid, I was both fascinated and intimidated by the giant steel arch-shaped swings that every amusement park seemed to have in the 1990’s. Part of that fascination had to do with how fun and how scary the ride looked. But part of it had to do with the...
by Christian Counseling Center | Jun 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
We are just leaving spring as summer approaches here in Columbia, and things are changing all around us. This time of year has often been a time change for the Christian Counseling Center as well. It was April 1, 1997 that the ministry of the Christian Counseling...
by Christian Counseling Center | Dec 7, 2023 | Anxiety, Depression
How do you answer that question? Are the holidays a time of rejoicing, gratitude, and giving? Or, are they a time of pressure, stress, and expectations? The holiday season provides a break, a distraction, from the rhythm of life. That break can...
by Christian Counseling Center | Aug 21, 2023 | Parenting
Were you bullied as a child? Statistics suggest that one in four of those reading this article have been. I was. My bullying was at the hands of Mike and his friends. It occurred when I was in the 7th grade, new to the school and he was a year older. I was a shy,...
