The Word Says Academy Institution

Equipping Christians To Counsel The Hurting

We invite you to become a member of one of the world's most significant educational and training associations of Christian counselors. Our staff is committed to helping you fulfill God's call on your life.

The National Christian Counselors Association is an educational and training organization for Christian counselors. The Association includes ministers, professional Christian counselors, testing specialists, medical doctors, attorneys, and educators. The staff of the Association has committed themselves to the Lord Jesus Christ and believes that counseling is in vain unless it is founded upon and directed by the Word of God.

The N.C.C.A.’s main purpose is to provide quality training for pastors and Christians who feel God’s call to counsel. We believe that candidates completing our program will be better equipped to minister to those who are lost and hurting in this world.

ABOUT NCCA

Our Founding

In 1981, Drs. Richard and Phyllis Arno established the National Christian Counselors Association (N.C.C.A.) as a non-profit corporation in order to conduct research and develop a therapeutic procedure based on Scripture. The procedure would accomplish three essential goals:

Enable the candidate to learn the system easily and relatively quickly
Save pastors and Christian counselors precious time in counseling sessions
Produce effective, positive, and more immediate results with those being counseled

Drs. Arno developed the system over seven years through systematic research with over 5,000 individuals. The counselees sought help for depression, inter/intra-personal conflict, addictions, marriage and family dysfunctions, and anxiety.

Become a Christian Counselor

Becoming a Christian counselor allows professionals to use evidence-based counseling techniques infused with God's Word. Christian counseling integrates faith into the therapy process to promote improved mental health from a biblically-informed perspective. It deals with the whole person, body, soul (mind, will and emotions) and spirit, and aims to help people regain a sense of control, purpose, and hope in their lives. Christian counseling seeks to reconcile the truths of Scripture with the complexities of human behavior, merging divine compassion with evidence-based therapeutic methods.

Learn who God created you to be by helping others learn who God created them to be!

Contact Information

For more information visit the Spiritual Temperament, contact page or text me at

865-548-1312.

For it was You who created my inward parts;

You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I will praise You

because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made.

Your works are wonderful,

and I know this very well.

Psalm 139:13-14

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Don't let the spiritual enemy of lies defeat you through doubt.

Know who you are in Christ!

Proverbs 24

A wise warrior is better than a strong one,
and a man of knowledge than one of strength;
for you should wage war with sound guidance—
victory comes with many counselors.