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Christway Counseling Center
Love, joy, peace and harmony in your marriage is truly possible God wants it for you more than you ever could. We can help you achieve just that. By experiencing Biblical truths and relational skills, you can:
- Eliminate destructive emotions like hurt, anger, resentment, bitterness, guilt, shame, fear, anxiety, stress and depression that destroy relational closeness.
- Experience the joy of a close, fulfilling, satisfying, loving and respectful relationship with God and your partner.
- Enrich your family so children experience a stable home that prepares them for a successful life.
Featured Testimonial
Over the past two decades, we’ve had the privilege of helping thousands of couples discover lasting solutions to revive their marriages and enjoy love, peace, and harmony.
Star and Hans tell their counseling success story in the short video below.
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Three-Day Marriage Clinic™
Grow closer to your partner in this three day event as you experience 25 essential truths and skills to successfuly communicate to resolve conflicts and heal hurts. Discover each others top needs and spiritual gifts to better understand each other.
Three-Day Accelerated Marriage Counseling (AMC)™
Three-Day Accelerated Marriage Counseling (AMC)™ is completely private: you, your partner and the counselor only. No group sessions are included.
Experience 25 Biblical Truths & Essential Marriage Skills in a concentrated, three-day format.
Individual Counseling
We offer Individual Counseling to couples or individuals wanting marriage counseling or those wanting to deal with specific issues (depression, anger, addiction, depression, fear, worry, anxiety, infidelity . . .).
Monthly Marriage Enrichment Group
The Monthly Marriage Enrichment Group offers accountability and support to those who have already attended the Three-Day Marriage Clinic™ or the Three-Day Accelerated Marriage Counseling (AMC)™.
Classes & Speaking Engagements
We occasionally offer classes, lectures, and group meetings at churches or colleges in the Houston area. Many of these events are free and some include child care.
Prayer & Encouragement Ministry for Women
Most women desire to live in peace with their husbands— but at times just need a listening ear and prayer time with and encouragement from an older woman. (Family and friends often cannot listen with an unbiased ear.)
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To register for the Three-Day Marriage Clinic™, Three-Day Accelerated Marriage Counseling (AMC)™, or Monthly Marriage Enrichment Group please go to our registration page:
To schedule an Individual Counseling appointment, please contact us.
Man’s ways do not work. “There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.” (Proverbs 16:25). Many Christian counselors use “ungodly,” secular concepts learned in secular schools that contradict God’s ways as revealed in the Bible. “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly . . .” (Psalm 1:1)
Couples often cannot resolve their own conflicts effectively because they violate just one of the 25 Essential Marriage Skills—the Log and Speck Principle. The Bible says, “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:5)
Notice that there is a time to “take the speck out of your partner’s eye.” But first, you must remove the “log out of your own eye.” In counseling over 3,000 clients, I have never once seen the reverse order work successfully.
All of God’s ways do work. “For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ . . .” (2 Corinthians 1:20)
God designed marriage to work. “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it . . .” (Psalm 127:1)
God describes how it will work. “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
When we approach marriage God’s way it does work! “. . . He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water . . . and in whatever he does, he prospers.” (Psalm 1:3)
Couples
- Healthy couples wanting to fortify their marriage and prevent disharmony
- Troubled couples considering divorce
- Couples trying to recover from infidelity or other serious issues
Divorced
- Who want to restore marriage
- Who want to avoid future relational failure by learning from past mistakes
Separated couples are trying to decide if they should reconcile or divorce
Engaged couples who want to avoid future conflict by learning from the mistakes of others
Singles who want excellent preparation in how to have a great marriage
Anyone who wants to learn relational principles to improve their relational skills as a parent, friend, co-worker, manager, pastor, or counselor.
Clear your schedule and commit to no TV, e-mails, phone calls, kids, work, etc. Fully devote these three days to enrich your marriage.
Consider staying at a hotel both nights (for the Three-Day Marriage Clinic™). Even if you opt for the Three-Day Accelerated Marriage Counseling (AMC)™, you may wish to book a hotel room for all three nights. This maximizes your togetherness time and minimizes interruptions. You can also use downtime at the hotel to complete your projects.
Yes. Karl Elkins taught some of the material through a TV series called Up with the Son, presented by the College of Biblical Studies. Several of these videos are available on the Up with the Son Vimeo channel. By watching these videos, you can preview some of the material that we will present in our Three-Day Marriage Clinic™, Three-Day Accelerated Marriage Counseling™, andIndividual Counseling sessions. Visit our Video Page
Every couple will have the optional opportunity to renew their vows to each other with Karl Elkins, a licensed minister. If you choose to participate, you will receive a beautiful vow renewal certificate that can be framed and will serve as powerful reminder of your marriage covenant.
Consider additional individual marriage counseling or individual marriage coaching sessions as needed. We plan to offer additional opportunities such as enrichment groups and an advanced clinic in the future.
There are no group projects in the Three-Day Marriage Clinic™ or the Three-Day Accelerated Marriage Counseling (AMC)™. The only person you must talk with is your partner (unless you choose otherwise). You will work on projects alone with your partner. If you choose to book a hotel room during the Three-Day Marriage Clinic, then you are welcome to work on your projects in the privacy of your hotel room.
Our Clients say
Star
Hans and I had been married for about two years and we were not experiencing a good marriage. I felt none of that “in love” feeling that we as women desire to feel. Hans and I fought all of the time and I felt that none of my needs were being met. In the beginning I p...
Hans & Star
We are Tony and Kayla Meyer. We have been married for eight years, and this is our story. Tony and I met and began dating and got engaged and were married within one year. So we went from this emotional high of dating to the realities of marriage and realizing just how different we were in almost...
Tony & Kayla
Having been to many marriage conferences, Joe and Suzan were each convinced that 90 percent of their marriage problems were the other’s fault.
Joe thought that by attending the Christway marriage clinic, Suzan would finally realize the steps that she needed to take in order to imp...
Suzan & Joe
After years of marriage, reality started to hit Cheryl and Glenn, leading to arguments, divorce threats, devastating affairs, and eventually separation.
They recognized their need for counseling, but only experienced negative results from the “in-and-out” counseling approach...
Glenn and Cheryl
Sherri and Todd share how their marriage was essentially dead after 13 years of communication struggles, fights over even the smallest issues, and increased frustration with one another.
Despite the fact that Sherri and Todd had received counseling from various sources and had attended ...
Sherri & Todd
It is Sunday morning at 2:00am after our Three-Day Marriage Clinic. I am awake and I wanted to take time to write you both.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your teaching, sacrifice and encouragement. We were in serious trouble and without an intervention our 15-year ...