Quick Facts:
- You are supporting affordable counseling, consulting, coaching for pastors, missionaries, and their kids/families/marriages
- You are supporting mental health and church project developments.
- You are helping Ingo get annual trainings and conferences, such as the Mental Health and Missions Conference
- You finance trauma training for Christian counselors in various countries who could not afford it otherwise
- You are supporting social media work around mental health and faith
- You are contributing Ingo's working tools overhead (WiFi, phone, etc.)
Some Background
Ingo is a professional counselor (LPC) and has been in counseling since 1993. Ingo holds a Ph.D. in in Counselor Education and Supervision (CACREP accredited).
Ingo has three adult children: Lukas (29), Katharina (26) and Annika (23) and three grandchildren. Ingo is divorced but honors the past.
Together with his former wife, Ingo worked as a pastor, serving churches in Berlin, Germany, and Europe for over 9 years. He also worked with pastors and missionaries using professional counseling, coaching, and consulting services that seek to combine proven research insights with theological wisdom and biblical direction. Ingo believes that the redemptive work of Christ is at the core of every counseling, coaching, and consulting interaction. Ingo will continue with this calling. The calling has not changed.
Ingo pursues three objectives:
- Provide confidential support services to pastors and msissionaries and any Christian worker in the US and overseas. services are free and/or donation-based.
- Help train a next generation of counselors that can competently navigate ministry-, mission-, and church contexts here and overseas. To that end, some funds go specifically into training and education for promising Christian counselors in underserved areas of the world.
- Equip pastors and missionaries globally with resources necessary to promote mental health progress for their own lives and families, their congragations, and the communities they serve.
Ingo regularly speaks on the role of AI in Christian contexts. You can call Ingo to talk to your group. There is no cost.
If you donate to this account, you will help directly sustain the work of Ingo on counseling, coaching, consulting, and building the projects mentioned above.
Feel free to contact Ingo anytime. Start with an email, and then we go from there.
Blessings,
Ingo Tophoven
- with New International since 2010