The American Association of Christian Counselors is the largest organization of Christian counselors

Christian counseling

Christian counseling is counseling which draws upon psychology and Christian teaching. Efforts to combine counseling with Christian or other religious perspectives or approaches are sometimes called "integration."...

 in the world.

Overview

It is headquartered in Forest, Virginia

Forest, Virginia

Forest is a census-designated place in Bedford County, Virginia, United States. The population was 8,006 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Forest is located at ....

, USA. AACC, as it is often called, creates the largest gathering of Christian counselors once per year in North America with annual conferences that often exceed 5,000 attendees. Speakers for these events include, Henry Cloud, John Townsend, Gary Smalley, Larry Crabb, T.D. Jakes, Ron Hawkins, John Trent, Emmerson Eggrich, Joni Tada, Arch Hart, John Eldredge and a host of other popular Christian writers. AACC is under the direction of Dr. Tim Clinton and celebrates their 25th anniversary as a professional trade association in 2011. They were previously headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia

Fairfax, Virginia

The City of Fairfax is an independent city forming an enclave within the confines of Fairfax County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Although politically independent of the surrounding county, the City is nevertheless the county seat....

. It has about 50,000 members. It publishes two journal

Journal

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s: Christian Counseling Today and Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal. It has adopted a code of ethics used for Christian counseling.