Author Archives: Peter John Louie

CCEF 2023: Trauma- Main Session Summaries

For those of you who missed #CCEF2023, or this year’s Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation Conference, below are summaries of the main sessions. This year’s theme was “Trauma: How God’s Light Breaks into Our Deepest Darkness.” I hope these summaries will be a blessing to you. The conference audio is now available for purchase here.

A Book Review of “Caring for Families Caught in Domestic Abuse,” Edited by Chris Moles

Chris Moles, a pastor and abuse counselor has a new book out to encourage church leaders and counselors to properly address and confront domestic abuse in their churches. His book, Caring for Families Caught in Domestic Abuse: A Guide toward Protection, Refuge, and Hope, features wisdom from a team of counselors and abuse experts who work with both victims and perpetrators of abuse. Contributors to the book include Beth Broom, Kirsten Christianson, Joy Forrest, Chris Moles, Darby Strickland, and Greg Wilson.

Misplaced Assignment of Responsibility in Abuse

Aaron Hann, a trauma and abuse counselor, explains in his October 2022 article that a key dynamic of abuse involves inappropriate assignment of responsibility. This month, Aaron Hann followed up with additional thoughts on John 9, looking at the abuse dynamics in that passage in more detail and relating it to his own experience of… Read More »

Impression Management and a Review of Wade Mullen’s “Something’s Not Right”

In Wade Mullen’s Book, Something is Not Right: Decoding the Hidden Tactics of Abuse and Freeing Yourself From Its Power, he talks about how impression management is a tool of abusers who use their power for their own gain. Abuse almost always comes in a system that prevents it from being dealt with, especially where the abuser is in what Mullen describes as a “keystone” role, where a key personality holds the community together.