Skills Training

This seminar focuses equipping you with skills that you can immediately implement with your own clients.

Navigate Defensiveness and Build Trust

Learn effective strategies to engage clients who are reluctant to seek help and deny the need for counseling.

Learn to Help Blind Eyes Open Up to the Truth

Master the art of leveraging trust to open abusive clients' eyes to their true heart commitments and behaviors.

About the Course

This Signature Seminar will equip you with the skills necessary to navigate the complex world of counseling abusive men. More than a theology of abuse, this seminar will provide you with plug-and-play tools to sidestep entrenched defensiveness, build relational trust, and enter into the process of transformation. This course features 1 hour and 45 minutes of video instruction plus a 45 minute role play observation video demonstrating many of the skills discussed in the instructional portion of the seminar.

Meet Your Instructor

Nate Brooks (PhD), specializes in working with abusive men.. Drawing from years of experience, he is dedicated to empowering you to make a profound impact in the lives of those you counsel. Dr. Brooks has authored many works on abuse and trauma, including Help! Our Sex Life is Troubled by Past Abuse, Working Through Sexual Abuse with Christian Patients (in the Routledge International Handbook on Religion and Sex Therapy), and the forthcoming A Book for Relationally Messy Men. Dr. Brooks serves as an Associate Professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the founder of Courage Christian Counseling, Nate's passion for educating extends globally, ensuring you receive the highest level of expertise and support.

Course Curriculum

14 Chapters · 15 Lessons

  1. 1

    Introduction to Counseling Abusive Men

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      Introduction to Skills for Counseling Abusive Men

  2. 2

    The Heart You Bring

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      The Heart You Bring

  3. 3

    Establishing Credibility

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      Establishing Credibility

  4. 4

    Probing Defenses

    1. Probing Defenses Free preview
  5. 5

    All I Do Is Win

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      All I Do Is Win

  6. 6

    The Transition

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      The Transition

  7. 7

    Non-Judgmental Evaluation

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      Non-Judgmental Evaluation

  8. 8

    The Past

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      The Past

  9. 9

    Defense Mechanisms

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      Defense Mechanisms

  10. 10

    Pressing In

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      Pressing In

  11. 11

    Gambits

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      Gambits

  12. 12

    Role Play

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      Observation Role Play

  13. 13

    Final Things

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      Final Things

  14. 14

    More Ways to Connect with Dr. Brooks

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      Counseling, Consulting, and Speaking

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      Books & Articles

What do people say about this training?

Discover how our course has helped counselors like you make a positive impact in their counseling practice.

Nate has become a trusted voice in the difficult work of caring wisely for abusive men. He brings biblical conviction, pastoral compassion, and practical insight to one of the church’s most challenging ministries.
Darby Strickland

Author, Is It Abuse? and When It's Trauma

Nate Brooks is a remarkably helpful and grounded guide for any counselor stepping into the vital, challenging space of confrontational ministry. His insights will equip you to cut through the noise, build necessary trust, and foster genuine accountability. 
Chris Moles

Director, PeaceWorks University Author, The Heart of Domestic Abuse

Ready to feel equipped in those hardest of cases?

Enroll now to learn the skills you need to help abusive men become men who love and practice peace.

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