“Jeff Pokone got to the source of my problem, helping me to see that anger was the outward result of unresolved woundedness in my relationship with my father, which, in turn, was affecting my relationship with my Heavenly Father, my wife, and my daughter. He addressed my need by helping me to identify areas of hurt and unforgiveness in my relationship with my father and demonic strongholds of thinking I had believed. Furthermore, he addressed my need for reconciliation with my wife and daughter, and explained to me how to walk in freedom and deliverance.
Since receiving counseling, I have learned to manage my anger. My relationship with my wife, my daughter, and my father have greatly improved. I have also been able to help others in spiritual need.”

“Our need was great! We were close to divorce, except that, because of our faith, we knew this was not an option. I came to IBCC with my husband, thinking we came to fix him, but only to find out that it was I who needed fixing.
Having been adopted, I struggled with feelings of abandonment. I also came to realize I had built “walls” around my heart that I was not even aware of. These “walls” hindered my relationship with my husband.
God has brought me to freedom. I have come to realize that the people who love me will let me down. But Jesus will never let me down. He will always allow me to “crawl up in His lap and get the comfort that I need.””

“In the beginning of counseling I was having a hard time forgiving myself. Jeff showed me through the scriptures how all of my sins have been nailed to the cross and now I am able to accept and realize that reality for myself. I also learned how we must have Jesus Christ rooted into all our life through scripture. It’s an ongoing process where you keep feeding yourself through the scripture. I was at the point where I knew I had forgiveness, and I was in Christ. But I needed to learn how to allow Christ to be in me in my daily life. It says there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. I had to learn how to understand that fully and how it applied to my situation. You look at the bible, the new testament is 2000 years old and you think, how does this apply to me? But Jeff was able to read the scripture with me and translate that into modern day living. I now understand how scripture fits into modern day living now. It’s been a process of understanding who I am in Christ and understanding how to walk out that Christian life as sin free as you can. ”

“One of the things that helped us in counseling for me was to realize the feelings I was experiencing were normal. Instead of being overwhelmed with shame I grew to understand the anger I had suppressed. I allowed myself to be angry about what happened to me. Growing up I wasn’t permitted to express my feelings, including anger. It was vital to allow myself to grieve the pain that I suffered. I understood how the triggers from being abused were impacting my relationship with my wife. Jeff helped me to be able to acknowledge them and make sense of them and with my self-awareness gave me tools to work through them. In one counseling session, Jeff asked me to write a letter to my abusers. Those letters allowed me to express a lot of feelings I needed to express that I wasn’t able to growing up. And to allow myself to get that hurt out on the table, admit to that hurt and forgive my abusers so that I could move on and start the healing process. ”