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Handouts

Biblical Counseling Conf 2026 Handout

PowerPoint presentations

Session 1 Definition and Goal of Biblical Counseling (Dr. Jonathan Okinaga)

Session 2 Essential Qualities of a Biblical Counselor (Paula Higuchi)

Session 3 Progressive sanctification (Paula Higuchi)

Session 4 Critique of Secular Theories (Dr. Jonathan Okinaga)

Session 4 updated handout

Session 5 Providing Instruction (Paula Higuchi)

Session 6 Fear and Worry (Anxiety) (Dr. Jonathan Okinaga)

Books

Books will not be distributed to livestream-only participants. If you registered for in-person attendance, we will hand out one of each book per household. Here are links to the books if you would like to purchase a copy of them:

Church as a Culture of Care

A Biblical Handbook for Counseling Heart Issues

REPLAY VIDEOS

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About our speakers

Dr. Okinaga serves as assistant professor of biblical counseling in the Jack D. Terry School of Educational Ministries. He also occupies the Hope for the Heart Chair of Biblical Counseling. A Southwesterner by academic pedigree, he previously served as an adjunct professor of biblical counseling at Southwestern. His research focuses on addiction and how to counsel and disciple individuals coming out of addiction. He authored From Sin to Disease (Wipf & Stock, 2022) and has written in other areas related to addiction. He has over a decade of experience ministering and counseling those coming out of addiction in a variety of ministry settings. He has also served as an associate pastor in California. Dr. Okinaga is married to Nicole and is the father of James. Website

Paula Higuchi was born and raised in Hawaii and serves as the director of the Biblical Counseling Center of Maui since it was established in 2016. She is a member of Kahului Baptist Church, has a B.A. in Biblical Studies from The Master’s University, an M.A. in Biblical Counseling from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and is certified with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors.

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