We provide:

1. A counselling service to the general public
2. A  counselling service to local churches, partnering with them in the bearing of their pastoral care load.
3. A  concilation service to help those in conflicted relationships to experience reconcilation.  We are experienced in reconciling marriage and church conflicts.
4. We operate as a teaching site, providing intern training for counselling students, primarily from the counselling programme at Grace Theological College.

 

Director

GCCS is overseen by a Board of Trustees who have appointed Dr. Peter Reynolds as the centre’s director. 

Peter holds a ThM degree and a Doctor of Ministry degree in Pastoral Counselling

He and Margaret together do marriage and relationship counselling.

Peter is a Certifiied Chrisitian Conciliator with the Institute of Christian Conciliation, a division of Peacemaker Ministries, and is listed on their website www.hispeace.org

He is also listed on the Familty Life website www.familylife.com

Peter has professional membership with Resolve New Zealand.

 

Counsellors:

Margaret Reynolds has a Diploma in Counselling, and a MA (Hons) in Counselling.

She is proficent over a variety of counselling issues, working also with sexual abuse issues, and with adolescents as well as adults.

Margaret also practises as a counselling supervisor

Margaret has professional membership with the New Zealand Chrisitian Counsellors Association.

Kathy Kells is working towards her Certificate in Pastoral Counselling and is completing her counselling internship requirements at GCCS.

 

Services provided by Grace Counselling and Concilation Services:

Counselling

Indvidual, couple and family counselling are offerred at GCCS, covering a range of counselling issues. 

We provide a counselling service to local churches where no fee is charged if clients are referred to us by their church leaders.

 

Conciliation

We offer a two/three day package of counselling and concilation help designed to reconcile conflicted relationships. 

Marriages, in fact any relationship experiencing a servere crisis, are often better served by a concentration of help. 

Over a period of days the conciliation process is combined with counselling intervention to expose, reconcile, and begin healing the issues that drive relationships apart.

 

Training

GCCS enjoys a close working relationship with Grace Theological College www.gtc.ac.nz . We conduct counsellor training courses at the College, and supervise their counselling interns. 

It is our desire to contribute to the counselling pool in New Zealand with counsellors who are able to offer compassion, understanding, insight, wisdom and knowledge to their clients.

To this end we are committed to counsellor training and mentoring.

 

Contact US

To enquire further about our services and fees, please note our contact details:

Phone: (09) 267-4613

Mobile:  (027) 366-0570

Fax:  (09) 267-4612

Email:  gracecounselling@gmail.com

Web:  www.gracecounselling.org.nz

Locality:  83 Christmas Road, Manurewa, South Auckland