Dr. Scott A. Hicks (USA)Director of the Well Counseling Center Scott and his family have lived in Dakar, Senegal (West Africa) since 1997.  He and his wife, Lisa, have been married for thirty-one years and they have three children – Joshua (30), Aaron (28) and Melissa (22).  In Africa, he counseled one-on-one, worked with couples, families, teams, consulted/counseled at an MK school, did conflict mediation and provided seminars (leadership, marital, team building). Services Offered Marriage/Family Counseling Individual Counseling (depression, stress, spiritual dryness, sexual addiction, relational conflict, etc.) Debriefing (including crisis/critical incident) Leadership Development Team Building (mental health check-ups, conflict resolution) Testing – Myers-Briggs/Cerny Smith Adjustment Assessment Specialized Training Cerny Smith Cross Cultural Adjustment Index Myers-Briggs Personality Types Debriefing Critical Incidents Pre-field Orientation for Teens TCK Re-entry (returning graduating seniors back to the States) On-field orientation Sexual addictions Education & Licensure BA in Pastoral Studies – Moody Bible Institute MA in Biblical Counseling – Grace Theological Seminary Doctor of Ministry in Counseling – Trinity Theological Seminary Licensed Clinical Social Worker Professional History Therapist for a pre-adolescent and adolescent in-patient mental health hospital  EAP outpatient counseling program Twenty-one years in private practice (thirteen on the mission field)

Heartbeat

I want to work myself out of a job! My passion is twofold –

1) to equip and train mission leaders and member care professionals in the various organizations represented in Southeast Asia to provide care to the members of their organizations, and

2) through proactive, preventative and innovative missionary member care such as on-field orientation (after culture shock hits), developing mentors (to walk new people through transition), training missionaries in “soul care”, team building (expectations, philosophy of ministry, work ethic, conflict resolution), individual, marital and team mental health check-ups, and debriefings --- to provide services that help put resources in the individuals lives that will reduce the need for intensive and long term counseling. In addition, one of the most important aspects of having healthy individuals in our mission organizations, is to encourage mission leaders to model healthy living by – #1 abiding in Christ themselves, ministering in healthy ways (in spite of difficult situations) to their own families, modeling “margin” (have a balanced view of work, sleep, exercise, rest, play), and mentoring their missionaries, with grace and wisdom, to be spiritually, physically, and mentally healthy.

My Staff – have a wealth of experience in preventative, proactive, innovative member care including life coaching, leadership development, mentoring, spiritual direction, soul care, spiritual warfare, cross cultural adjustment, team building, spiritual formation, stress testing, spiritual protection for our children, freedom in Christ, pastoral care, prayer ministry … as well as restorative skills (counseling). It’s my passion to use the gifts and talents of my staff to proactively move into the mission community with teaching, seminars, retreats, etc. in order to reduce the need for “fixing” missionaries after they’ve crashed and burned. That’s my heartbeat.