Welcome once again to the conversations that matter

podcast. I'm your host John Harris with a special guest today. We are

going to be talking to pastor Matt Statler who is at Sierra Vista church you can go to Sierra Vista dot Church to find out more about his ministry but it's an AC BC certified church

Association of biblical counselors He is a trainer for ACBC.

He has a degree in counseling from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

And we're going to talk about trauma-informed counseling today.

And my role in this is going to be to listen,

because I don't know a lot about it.

I've read Diane Lamberg's book, most of it,

and that's about it at this point.

So my journey has just started in understanding this, but Pastor Statler is much farther along in understanding this.

So he's going to explain it to us, since this is a very new thing that's coming into counseling and coming into

evangelicalism in general and and maybe tell us some things that we should be

cautious of. So with that, Pastor Stattler, thank you so much for taking time out of your schedule to join us.

Well, my pleasure and thanks for having me on the show, John and you just call me Matt.

But man, so yeah, this trauma, trauma-informed care, this is a buzz word, right? This is a word that's been really

blowing up in popularity even in biblical counseling circles and as a pastor with a full plate I hadn't really

been tuning in much to it I have a lot of experience with the trauma

at trauma-informed world, secular methodologies for caring for me.

And as I've been counseling people, some, this word of trauma being triggered and as I'm counseling folks this becomes a common thing and so I would say first

we want to understand what what do we mean when we say something like trauma or PTSD, right?

So everybody knows post-traumatic stress disorder.

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