Our Story

The story of CCC San Jose began with a dream and a prayer.

To bring hope, healing, spiritual, and emotional health to those dealing with the struggles life in our world can bring.

With faith and professional training, Christian Counseling Center San Jose therapists have been serving Silicon Valley since 1989.

With a Christian-based foundation, Christian Counseling Center San Jose has been partnering with pastors, churches, and organizations seeking to meet the needs of the individuals and families in their communities. With great joy, we have discovered that we have been able to serve the community at large, those who do not identify with a particular faith system or those who have different faith practices.

Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life and have life to the full”

John 10:10.

We believe at times, we all need someone who provides space and “walks beside us” to help figure out a path back to “fullness of life.” We have a diverse group of trained therapists here to serve. We would feel it a privilege to work with you.

Our Vision and Mission

Mission 

Our mission is to honor and glorify God by providing Christian and professional mental health and training services. We do that by providing counseling services, providing training & mentorship for pre-licensed mental health professionals and building counseling programs for churches and schools. 

Vision 

Our vision is for all people to be aware of and have access to Christian mental health services, and to be a lighthouse of help, hope, and healing to all who seek it. Our light comes from the brilliance of Jesus Christ, illuminating our center, our valley, and our world. 

Core Values

The need for well-trained Christian therapists is tremendous because our world is filled with people who need healing. In our divided, angry, and confused culture, one can often feel like no person or place is safe, making it difficult to trust even a therapist. 

 As Christians and followers of Jesus Christ, we lovingly approach all our interactions with others just as Jesus did. 

 Our ministry acknowledges the complexity of humans as physical, social, psychological, and spiritual beings. The ultimate goal of Christian counseling is to help people move to personal wholeness, interpersonal competence, mental stability, and spiritual maturity.

Clients

No matter your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity, no matter the decisions you have made and the things you have done, we commit to listening to you, respecting you and loving you. 

 We commit to maintaining the highest adherence to the ethical codes of the Board of Behavioral Sciences and the Board of Psychology. 

 If you are a follower of Christ, and if you ask, we will pray with you and incorporate Christian faith into your treatment to any degree you desire and request. 

 Since our counselors come from a wide range of Christian denominations, traditions, and backgrounds, it is encouraged for clients and referral sources to interview potential therapists to ensure a proper match in faith traditions and desired approaches on important issues when these matches are desired. 

CCCSJ Community 

As followers of Christ, we profess CCCSJ’s statement of faith. Although we may come from different Christian denominations, traditions, and backgrounds, our goal is to create a culture centered on an increasingly close relationship with Jesus. This culture drives us to work lovingly and support one another with kindness and respect. 

As we listen to and acknowledge differing perspectives, we will strive to create greater transparency and trust within our organization. May God equip us to discern primary and secondary priorities for this center as we remain committed to healing and serving our communities and one another well. 

 “Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” 

Matthew 22: 37-39

Leadership Team and Board of Directors 

As followers of Christ, we profess CCCSJ’s statement of faith. We commit to listening to the input from our clients and our community and prayerfully making decisions with God’s guidance. We also commit to holding ourselves accountable to live above reproach in all areas of our lives. 

We align ourselves with the teachings of Jesus and Scripture. May we discern what the Lord is calling our organization to do and remain diligent in allowing the Holy Spirit to lead us in all planning and decision-making to the glory of God. 

As the Apostle Paul wrote: “And may the Lord make your love for one another and for all people grow and overflow, just as our love for you overflows. May He, as a result, make your hearts strong, blameless, and holy as you stand before God our Father when our Lord Jesus comes again with all his holy people. Amen.” 

1 Thessalonians 3:12-13

We Seek to Minister in the Following Ways:

  • Providing professional psychotherapy rooted in biblical truth and ethics to the individuals and families of both the Christian community and the greater community.

  • Developing and leading classes and seminars within the church setting, which are preventive and strengthening to the individuals, the families, and the churches of our communities.

  • Supporting and being accountable to the pastors of our local churches and maintaining regular contact with those who make up our referral base and use our ministry.

  • As a resource to teachers, counselors, administrators, Christian workers, and community builders, we provide input and guidance as they deal with many counseling situations. We have relationships with San Jose schools and 20 MFT interns and clinicians working with students. Our prayer is to see emotionally healthy young people and to support educators as they carry out their important jobs in this challenging climate.

  • By providing professional training opportunities and programs for those who are called by God to enter into this or similar ministries a greater professional community: medical, legal, and mental health, and to the community at large.

  • By raising the image of the Christian community as we provide teaching, consulting, and other services to the professional community including medical, legal, and mental health sectors, and the community at large.

We uphold a biblical view of Christianity and seek to integrate the best that the science of psychology and the art of psychotherapy have to offer with scriptural truths. We believe that there is no discrepancy between psychological truth and biblical truth.

Our Statement of Faith

We believe the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired, inerrant and trustworthy Word of God, the complete revelation of His will for the salvation of humanity and the final authority for all matters about which it speaks.

We believe there is one God, creator and sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally co-existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe humanity is created in God’s image, but due to the fall (Adam and Eve’s disobedience), sin entered the world resulting in guilt, shame, suffering and death.

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His death on the cross, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power, glory and judgment. The substitutionary atoning death of Jesus Christ and his bodily resurrection provide the only grounds for justification, forgiveness, salvation and eternal life for all who repent and believe.

We believe the Holy Spirit is the agent of regeneration and renewal, and union with Christ for believers in Jesus Christ. He makes the presence of Jesus Christ real in believers, and He comforts, guides, convicts, and enables believers to live a godly life which honors Christ.

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of eternal life and they that are lost unto eternal separation from God.

We believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ, where he will consummate and restore all things and all things will be made new in Him.

We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

In addition, the CCCSJ believes and holds to the following creeds:

●      The Apostles Creed

●      The Nicene Creed

●      The Chalcedonian Creed

●      The Athanasian Creed

We are a diverse group of people from various faith traditions, backgrounds, and denominations. We hold to the core truths in this statement of faith and we have unity in Christ. We may have diverse opinions on and approaches to other issues not addressed in this statement of faith.

(As adapted from the National Association of Evangelicals and The American Association of Christian Counselors)

Our Organization

Christian Counseling Center – San Jose, Inc. is a non-profit corporation with over 50 licensed and pre-licensed professional therapists. We currently occupy 35 counseling offices in seven suites in our office building at 3880 South Bascom Avenue, San Jose, CA 95124.

Christian Counseling Centers, Inc.

Christian Counseling Centers, Inc. now includes centers in the following cities:

Fremont — (510) 794-8581

Gilroy — (408) 659-6893

Hayward — (510) 783-6629

Los Altos — (650) 961-5798

Morgan Hill — (408) 465-4300

Pacifica — (650) 570-7273

San Francisco — (415) 674-7504

San Mateo — (650) 570-7273

Saratoga — (408) 533-9981

Scotts Valley — (831) 234-2288

Sunnyvale — (650) 961-5798

Walnut Creek — View website for contact information.