Dr. David Powlison and Winston Smith respond to the question: "Does a troubled past disqualify someone to be a counselor?" You can submit your own question here.

Here is a letter from another one of our students who is surpassing me.

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Dear Ed,

I'm writing to fulfill a promise. Yesterday I bumped into a woman whom I had counseled a couple months ago, and she asked, "Did you tell him yet?" And I had to confess that I had not, but promised to send an email this week. So, here's the story:

In Part One of this series, counselor and author David Powlison began to take us on a personal and highly-detailed journey through all the aspects of a counseling relationship, using the case study of "Ann," a woman who is experiencing extreme panic attacks. In part two and part three and part four of this live CCEF training class session, David paused for some questions from his students about dealing with panic and fear. In this final installment of the series, Dr.