Episode 5 (Season 2) Deep Light - Counseling: Your Whole Story Matters (Season 2 - Episode 5) Guest: Page Price

About our Guest: Page Price is a Licensed Professional Counselor at Sparrow House, a team of over 30 professional counselors and psychologists who each have a heart to serve and provide both individuals and families with affordable, high-quality care. Page grew up in Midland, Texas but has considered Dallas home now for over ten years. She completed her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at Texas A&M University. Page taught fourth grade at Providence Christian School in Dallas for seven years prior to receiving her Master’s in Counseling from the University of North Texas. Page’s clinical training consists of working with children, adolescents, groups, families, and adults in both agency and private practice settings. At the University of North Texas, she received training in play therapy and counseled individuals of all ages at the UNT Counseling and Human Development Center. Page gained experience during her clinical internship counseling children and families impacted by trauma and abuse at the Children’s Advocacy Center of Collin County. She has experience working with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma, behavioral concerns in children and teenagers, parenting issues, and other mental health concerns.

Page considers it an honor to walk alongside those who are hurting, working together toward hope and healing. Page is active in her church and worked on the women’s ministry team during her time in graduate school. She mentors a high school group of girls, providing her a unique perspective on the challenges that many adolescents face. In her spare time, Page enjoys traveling, being outside, reading a good book, and spending time with her friends and family.

About the Host: A graduate of Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Mark Davis came to PCPC as our Youth Pastor in 2003 and became our Senior Pastor in 2009. He and his bride, Kristina, met at a Young Life Camp in 1988 and have five amazing kids, Kara (and husband, Drew), Madalyn (and husband, Jack), Cayden, Esther Kate, & Samuel. Mark is a closet Architect and fountain pen apologist…don’t get him started!

About the Episode: Join us for this episode to hear about how Page walks alongside children, parents, and families to a place of healing. “Counseling is a means of common grace,” she says and through counseling, she helps kids recognize body symptoms of anxiety and gradually work down from discomforts and helps individuals work through sitting in the discomfort and the thought trap that ‘I am not enough.’ She describes anxiety as a fear of the unknown or uncertainty that can be healthy until it is prolonged or affects sleep and normal life. We learn from Page how CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) helps connect feelings, thoughts, and behaviors to teach kids how to understand what they are thinking about. We learn about thinking traps such as mindreading: assuming you know what someone else is thinking; jumping to the worst-case scenario; living in the what-ifs, and only focusing on the negative and not recognizing all of the positive things. We learn about how counseling helps connect to themselves and to God. Page and Mark talk about the biggest complaint that children have is their parents are not listening. Whether you are the parent or not, we would love for you to hear this message of how being vulnerable and honest is the first step.

Resources: Sparrow House Counseling is led by a passionate team of licensed professional counselors and psychologists who each have a heart to serve and provide both individuals and families with affordable, high-quality care. Our counselors are here to give a hand that you may begin a journey toward healing and restoration in any and every area of your life. https://www.sparrowhousecounseling.com/team

For any follow-up questions from this episode or ideas for future content, please email us at deeplight@pcpc.org

Key Quotes: “You can change what you think and you can change what you do in order to change what you feel. Feelings do not have to dictate our life.”

“Being vulnerable and honest is the first step.”

“There is so much power in telling our stories.”

Verse to pray over: “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story— those he redeemed from the hand of the foe, those he gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.” Psalm 107:1-3

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