Counseling Studies:
Foundations for a Better Life  
Jack Collins, MA, LCMHC, a Licensed Clinical Counselor

Foundations for a Better Life takes you on a journey into a joy-filled, meaningful, healthy life that impacts others for good.  However, this journey does not begin with a healthy life.  This is a journey about people who, having got caught up in the slippery slopes of addictions and abuse, overcome addictions mentoring others to a new life.  Counselors from His Mansion will assist in this course. 

• Week 1: Jesus Christ, our Standard for Wholeness.
  
• Week 2: Substitutes: the slippery slope to addictions.
• Week 3: Mental, Physical, Spiritual and Relational Consequences.
• Week 4: Finding My Way Back – Overcoming Addictions.
• Week 5: Can I Now Be A Guide For You?
• Week 6: Staying Healthy.
• Week 7: Pursuing God and His Plan.

Class Resources:  Staff from His Mansion will be guest instructors for selected classes with residents sharing brief testimonies, and Teen Challenge

Jack is licensed as a clinical mental health counselor in New Hampshire, and provides individual, marital and family counseling at his Laconia office and in the Seacoast at Crossroads Counseling Center.  Marriage counseling is a major focus of his practice.  Jack and his wife, Mary, moved to New Hampshire 5 years ago from Illinois.  They have a 23 year old daughter, Lauren.  She and her husband, Alex, live in Illinois where she is currently attending Graduate school.