Would you like to receive counsel that's consistent with what's taught in God's Word?
Do you believe our Creator-God's wisdom is sufficient, no matter what you are facing?
Would you like to receive counsel that's consistent with what's taught in God's Word?
Do you believe our Creator-God's wisdom is sufficient, no matter what you are facing?
Biblical Counseling Knoxville
Biblical Counseling Knoxville
Peggy Severance, MABC
Peggy Severance, MABC
Experience God's empowered wisdom for every circumstance
applied compassionately and practically
Experience God's empowered wisdom for every circumstance
applied compassionately and practically
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught
in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have HOPE. Romans 15:4
​ABOUT PEGGY
​ABOUT PEGGY
Education and Certification
Master's Degree in Biblical Counseling from Southern Seminary
Bachelor's Degree in Child Development from the University of Tennessee
Certified with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
Counseling Experience
40 yrs - Counseling women, teens & children
8 yrs - Biblical counseling
3 yrs - Helpline counselor
3 yrs - Served on church Biblical Counseling Team
1 year - Worked with functional patients at State Mental Hospital
9 yrs - Phone counseling with national ministry
Personal
Came to know Christ as her personal Lord and Savior at age 17
Knoxville native
Married 43 years, 2 children and 8 grandchildren
Love to sing in the church choir, hike and learn about health/nutrition
Enjoy time with our grandkids
COUNSELING THEOLOGY
Four convictions of Peggy’s biblical counseling ministry -
1. I present the Lord Jesus Christ as the crucified, risen, and reigning Savior who, through his Word and his Spirit, can help us handle our personal and relational problems. Jesus alone provides the forgiving mercy (through his death and resurrection), the wisdom (in his Word), and the power (through his Spirit) we need for daily living.
2. I use the Bible as the main tool to diagnose, explain, and solve a person’s problems. God’s Word provides true, thorough, authoritative, and sufficient guidance for every life situation. The Bible is richly superior to human wisdom and competing counsel of secular psychologies.
3. I reflect the love, concern, and compassion of Jesus our Shepherd and Counselor. Biblical counseling is a caring process marked by Christlike love.
4. I seek thorough and lasting godly change by addressing both the inward and outward issues of someone’s problems. Biblical counseling is not shallow, superficial, or simplistic. Scripture alone uncovers and solves our inward, heart (beliefs and motives) struggles and our outward, behavioral struggles.