About Ben Schoening

Ben is our Pastor of Marriage, Family & Counseling Ministries. He has a passion to see individuals, couples and families grow in who they were each created to be. He believes that our struggles, our pain, our pasts, and even our diagnosis do not define who we are.  The joy of counseling is to be able to talk through the places that we get stuck and develop practices and techniques which lead to hope and freedom.

Ben has been counseling in ministry since 2002 and has also served youth, college, and worship ministry. He has a variety of professional and clinical experience working with children and teens who have suffered from a wide variety of dysfunctions and diagnosis/ He has worked with children who have been at risk from being removed from their community and worked in an adult psychiatric hospital for a number of years providing individual and group counseling.  Ben has a B.A. in Psychology, an M.A. in Marriage & Family therapy, and a Doctorate of Education in Counseling Psychology.

“It is a privilege to be a part of the help and healing in the lives of those I counsel. I consider it both an honor and tremendous responsibility that individuals, couples and families are willing to let me into their lives in the middle of some very difficult and challenging circumstances. It is our duty, as Christian counselors, to provide sound counsel that is founded in strong empirical research and, most importantly, that is rooted in the truth of God’s word. It is a joy to experience an awakening of hope with those who allow me to step into their lives and circumstances.” ~ Ben