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In Introduction to Integrative Counseling, Dr. Dave Wenzel provides students with a comprehensive overview of a counseling technique that combines psychology, science, and physiology with theology, spirituality, and faith. Dr. Wenzel, a teacher and a practicing counselor, begins by looking at the historical phases of integration relative to the development of the fields of psychology and...

A person’s feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and actions should line up as close as possible. If we believe something that we don’t act on, we’ve got incongruence. If we do something we don’t want to do and we have bad feelings, we have incongruence. For a counselor, I try to have a rule that I would never ask a client to do something that I am not willing to do. If I ask them to exercise, if I ask them to eat well, if I ask them to rest, I need to be integrating those things into my life. As a counselor,