The sixth volume in the series begins with a conviction: Christian counseling is not a technique for managing behavior or a shortcut around the slow work of sanctification, but an extension of pastoral care into the painful particulars of one person's story.
Six parts trace the whole arc — the theology of transformation, a biblical picture of the person (mind, heart, emotions, identity, and wounds), the counselor's own character and craft, the actual process of change, the relationships where most of that change happens, and the honest hope that closes the book.
It refuses two shortcuts: a minimalism that reduces care to a few verses, and a psychology that quietly displaces the gospel with technique. Compassion without competence can wound as surely as competence without compassion.