LawrencevilleMarriageCounseling.com

I Do More Than Just Counseling!

Are you having problems setting boundaries? I pray that God would help you, using many different styles of therapy such as Theophostic Ministry, Elijah House, Henry Cloud of Boundaries, and others to help you gain control of your life and restore peace to your heart. I want to help you gain hope for the future. 

My Resume is below.

Mrs. Marilyn Hardin Henley
Lawrenceville, Ga 30044
770-828-6636
770-339-7957

EDUCATION:           

Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee – BA 1976
            Certification to Teach Art, Kindergarten – 12th Grades
            Certification to teach elementary education grades K-5
           
            Extensive Training Through Courses in Pastoral and General Counseling
                        Classes in Psychology at Carson Newman College
            Course with  Dr. Steve Finn, Psychologist in counseling
            Course with Andy Comiskey on reflective listening based on his classes at Fuller 
                        Theological Seminary.
            Seminar with Leanne Payne in Santa Monica Ca and also in Dallas, Tx. area.
            Earned Certificate, in Seattle, to conduct a 12 step program based on AA, but more
                        Christ centered.
            Observed Group therapy demonstrated 1 year in Pasadena, Ca, led by psychologist
                        Susan Hylyman (she moved in the gifts of the Holy Spirit.)
            Extensive Counseling Course led by John and Paula Sanford completed with certificate.
            Completed class on a Personality Theory System called Creation Therapy.
            Earned Certificate in Theophostic Ministry (Which is leading someone to God so that
                        their experience with him would help that person overcome the difficult or                         traumatic memories)
            Received certificate for counseling through classes taken at Christ Centered Counseling.  
            Became a member of Atlanta Christian Counselor Association, 1995.
            Ordained through Christ Centered Counseling, in Atlanta Georgia, 1998.
 

EXPERIENCE            
           
            SELF-EMPLOYED PASTORAL COUNSELING
                        Lawrenceville, Ga -- 2000 to 2011

            CHRIST CENTERED COUNSELING
                        Atlanta, Ga -- 1990 to 1999 individual, pre-marital, marriage &
                        family pastoral counseling  

            TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY SCHOOLS
            Brevard, North Carolina – February 1988 to May 1989
                        *Substitute Teacher for Kindergarten through 12th grades.
                        Taught all subjects including learning disability classes.
            
            DESERT STREAM, MINISTRY OF THE VINEYARD CHRISTIAN
                        FELLOWSHIP
            Santa Monica, California – part time
                        *Counselor: Small Group Facilitator and Individual Counselor –
                        February 1981 to 1983
                        *Head of Women’s Counseling, Full-Time -0 1983 to 1986
                        Main responsibility: Individual Counseling.  Also, facilitated groups, wrote
                        articles for newsletter, spoke at
                        Seminars, spoke at Fuller Seminary for a pastoral counseling class and taught
                        a class at an Exodus International conference held in San Francisco, CA.
 
            REDONDO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
            Redondo Beach. California
                        *Preschool Teacher                 -May 1981 to August 1982
                        *Second Grade Teacher          -August 1986 to May 1987
                        *Third Grade Teacher             -May 1982 to August 1983

            TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY SCHOOLS - Brevard, North Carolina
                        *Brevard Elementary              Art K-5th Grade – Aug 79 to May 80
                        *Pisgah Forest Elementary     Art K-5th Grade – Aug 78 to May 79
                        *Brevard High School            Art 9-12 Grade – Aug 78 to May 79
                        *Transylvania Co. Schools      Substitute K-12 – Jan 77 to May 78
 
            References available upon request.
 
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
 
I was born and grew up near Brevard, NC. My parents were very active in the local
Baptist church. My Dad was a deacon and both parents were Sunday school teachers
among other jobs at church.  Their relationship with God and expression of it has been
a was very important influence throughout my life.
 
I accepted Christ as my savior at age 11. But at age 13 I hear someone speaking saying
the miracles were symbolic not literal and I questioned everything not having personally
seen any miracles.
 
By God’s grace I quickly realized I had no reason to be on this planet without God and His
plan for my life. I asked God to show me his presence and he did I was deeply serious
about God and His purposes for me. I soon found that even at 13, I was doing a
lot of listening to people’s problems. I came to believe that I was being called to become
a pastoral counselor.  I went to a Baptist college, where I immediately got involved with a
charismatic prayer group that formed from several freshman. I had already prayed to be
filled with the Holy Spirit but there I received the gift of praying in tongues. I began to
pray for people to be healed.  Some were shocked when they were healed.
 
Our prayer group experienced great joy seeing the reality of the work of the Holy Spirit.
At that point I wanted to find a path for counselor training other than the secular route.
The seminaries that I knew anything about at that time, really promoted a secular point
of view.  I believed I heard God tell me after fasting and
praying for a few days to go feed his lambs in California. I was amazed since at that
point I still a freshman at Carson Newman college in Tennessee.  I decided to stay open
to it and see what would happen.
 
After I graduated from college and taught in public school 2 years in North Carolina.
I went to Los Angeles traveling with a Christian girlfriend that I attended college
There I met Andy Comisky asking for information to help a guy, I knew in college, that had
decided he was gay.
 
Andy invited me to go to his meetings and soon ask me to lead the group for  woman that
were lesbians. I told him I didn’t know anything about lesbians. He replied he couldn’t
find anything written about lesbians, the year was 1980. I prayed about it and felt the Lord
said listen to the Holy Spirit which is what I learned to do.
Through the years, especially in the last 10 years deliverance has become a important part of
counseling listening to the Holy Spirit has proven to be the only truly effective way to do
counseling.  Through the years, as I have worked, as a counselor, I have seen a full spectrum
of people, with a varied list of issues. It has always been interesting and often amazing, to
be involved with the presence of God, working in the lives of people. I have had the great
opportunity to help people as he leads them, toward restoration, so that they, will be able,
to walk out his plan, for their individual lives.
 
As I pastoral counseling, using the gifting that God has given me, of word of knowledge,
wisdom, counsel, decernment of spirits, deliverance, prophecy, and mercy, and with great
expectation, I look forward to how I might be used, by God, to see people delivered from
emotional and physical pain, to be free to be all they can be, in Christ.