Homosexuality - Care and
Counselling
Counselling and support is available for those who want to leave the
homosexual lifestyle ...
A large number of international groups, many founded by former
homosexuals, assist those who want help. See the Organisations
list for contact details for those groups.
In Australia
A number of groups
operate in Australia - some provide counselling, others run courses and some run
support groups.
If you'd like to talk to someone or need help, please phone
our office.
Liberty
(Queensland)
Advice and counselling is available.
Contact them at Exodus South
Pacific.
Click here for their webpage.
They also have a Parent Support Group for parents whose children are in the homosexual
lifestyle. The group meets in Brisbane.
Mosaic
Ministries
Located in Melbourne. Mosaic provide
counselling and also run support groups.
Click here
for their website.
Liberty
Christian Ministries
Located in
Sydney.
Counselling and support. Click here for website.
Their aim (in
part):
* Providing support, hope and education to Christian men and
women who struggle with unwanted same sex attraction
* Providing support to
families, spouses and friends of those who struggle with unwanted same sex
attraction or who have embraced a homosexual lifestyle
* Educating the
church and the wider Christian community about same sex attraction and how to
care for and pastor those affected by
it.
Living Waters
An international ministry. In
Australia the ministry is located in Sydney and is headed up by Ron
Brookman.
Living Waters runs courses to help Christians deal with sexual
and relational problems. They address issues such as:
* Gender
confusion (particularly Homosexual and Lesbian struggles)
* The effects
of abuse
* Unwanted sexual
compulsions
* Co-dependency
* The fear of
intimacy
* Problems with the internet: chat rooms,
pornography
* The True Feminine * The True Masculine
* How
our sexuality develops and may be damaged
* The healing of our
sexuality
Click here for their
website.
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In Melbourne -
please contact our office on (03) 9894 8780 for more information about these groups and other ministries
and counsellors - or just for a chat if you want to talk
to someone! Author: Jenny Stokes | Modified: 18 September 2008 |
