Counseling: Healing Minds, Transforming Lives
Africa New Day provides counseling services, offering psychological care to help people recover from trauma and find healing.
About Counseling
For decades, numerous wars, sexual violence, disease and natural disasters have taken a toll on the mental health of the Congolese people. Counseling can help individuals and the collective move beyond a feeling of helplessness and look for solutions to the problems around them. Africa New Day’s Counseling department provides individual counseling, group counseling and trauma recovery sessions to youth and adults to provide them with the support to cope and heal from trauma and mental health concerns. Counseling and mental health support also weave through many of our other programs.
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Impact
- Women, men, and children are empowered to live peaceful lives and are safeguarded from the long-term mental and physical diseases that can come from chronic stress and emotional trauma:
- Conquering marital problems
- Coping with parental challenges
- Supporting mental health conditions
- Recovering from grief and loss
- Healing from addiction
- Strengthening one’s faith in God
Influence
- 4,941 people have benefited from counseling and psychological care through 2020
- 37% of those who have benefited are women
- Trained 33 volunteer Psychosocial Assistants who work with the Counseling Department
- Students from seven schools in Butembo and Beni received counseling sessions to help improve their school results
- Group counseling for hundreds with PTSD after the 2021 volcanic eruption
Support Our Counseling Services Today
Your support can help provide psychological care and trauma recovery for those in need. Donate now to help us continue our mission, or learn more about our programs and how you can get involved.
Hear From Our Beneficiaries
Read stories from individuals whose lives have been transformed by our programs.
Janette Kahindo
Alice Masukula
FAQs
While we do not operate a center, we offer our counseling services to all who participate in our programs.
Yes, we have been hired by various organizations to help employees who have experienced trauma, such as the Virunga Park Rangers after many were killed by poachers.
Realize that you are not alone and that there are people who want to walk with you through your trauma to freedom.
Yes, with healthy coping tools, self-management, and community support, one can recover and begin the journey to a healthier life. Having a relationship with Jesus Christ is the foundation to freedom from all of life’s challenges and where true peace is found.
The need exists, but we must grow incrementally as funds become available.
The Counseling department uses a Christian approach for trauma counseling. Christian counseling, also known as biblical counseling and Christian psychology, combines faith with the principles of psychology to improve mental health and relationships. This therapy approach uses scripture and biblical teachings to help clients deal with life’s challenges.When someone is in the midst of troubling life events—death, abuse, declining health, financial problems, relationship issues, etc.—a strong and resilient faith can be what is missing from one’s life. Christian counseling focuses on spiritual health, a personal relationship with God, and the belief that, with therapy, personal problems, mental health issues, and emotional distress can be replaced with increased self-worth, as well as spiritual and mental fulfillment.