Addressing Suicidal Ideation with Gospel Care

Workshop Description

Addressing Suicidal Ideation with Gospel Care is designed to effectively equip you to care for those struggling with suicidal thoughts. This webinar provides pastors and counselors with a grounded, biblical framework for understanding and responding to suicidality:

• Normalize the Struggle: Understand suicidal ideation as a normal, and even potentially useful, human experience in a broken world post-Fall.
• Identify the Core: Explore how the core of suicidality is rooted in pride, manifesting in two common internal narratives as seen in various characters in the Bible (Jonah, Elijah, and Judas).
• Comprehensive Assessment: Learn critical assessment questions—covering frequency, plan, means, past attempts, and protective factors—to accurately gauge risk and know when to escalate care.
• Apply Gospel Care: Walk through practical, scripturally grounded care by normalizing the struggle, identifying the core cause, and grounding the counselee in important biblical truths.

Join us and grow in your ability to biblically and compassionately care for those who wrestle with suicidal ideation.

Speaker Bio: Andrew Dealy, LPC-S

Andrew is the Executive Director of the Austin Stone Counseling Center and Director of Soul Care for the Austin Stone Community Church. He is also the Founder of Ever Rise Care & Consulting. Andrew holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Master’s degree in Counseling and Development, and is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor. Andrew has taught Equipped to Counsel for over 10 years and annually co-teaches a 2 day Seminar called Wonderfully Made which equips parents and ministers with a biblical approach and practice to the topic of gender and sexuality. Andrew is a contributing writer to the Association of Biblical Counselors, the Biblical Counseling Coalition, and is passionate about resourcing churches and ministries in biblical counseling. Andrew has three wonderful children and in his free time he runs a lot and tries to keep his garden alive in Austin, Texas.