About US

William L. Jeffery

William L. Jeffery

Director of Services / Counselor

Bill Jeffery has served as the Director of Services and counselor at CFCE since November 2011. He has spent most of his life in the Chenango County area. Bill is a graduate from Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA with his Bachelor of Science in Psychology and his Master of Arts in Professional Counseling. Bill has his license as a Mental Health Counselor here in New York State. Bill considers himself to be a Christian counselor, and not merely a counselor who happens to be a Christian. As such, he hopes to be instrumental in the process of meeting the counseling needs of members of our diverse local population, including those who may desire more than mere human wisdom for solutions to their struggles, they desire instead God's infinite, absolute, eternal, and universal truths and wisdom for their life issues.

Norman Kanzer

Norman Kanzer

Counselor

Norman Kanzer has his license as a school psychologist here in New York State. He also has over 30 years of experience in Christian counseling. He has been on staff at CFCE since June 2012 providing biblical Christian counseling for many CFCE clients.

Michelle N. Watts

Dr. Michelle N. Watts

Counselor

Michelle received her PhD in Christian Counseling from Splendor Bible Institute and Light University in May of 2017. She earned her Master of Science in Counseling from Baptist Bible College and Graduate School (now Clarks Summit University) in Clarks Summit, PA in August of 2012.

Michelle works primarily with women who are survivors of childhood abuse. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques along with biblical principles to assist her clients.

Michelle has been working with clients since 2008 while completing her practicum hours and from 2009 to 2011 while completing internships at Baptist Bible College and Calvary Baptist Church in Norwich, NY. She has been volunteering as a counselor at Calvary Baptist Church in Norwich from 2009 to the present.

Michelle began working with female clients of the Center for Family Counseling & Education in April of 2023.

The types of therapeutic settings offered at CFCE include, but are not limited to, individual, couple, family, and group therapy.

The therapeutic method generally utilized at CFCE is cognitive-behavioral therapy.

> CFCE's Approach

Holistic and Individualistic

The approach to counseling at CFCE is holistic. This means that necessary attention is given to the whole person, including the three aspects of personhood. These are the body, soul, and spirit. Any or all of these aspects may be involved in the issues that bring individuals to counseling. For this reason, each of these aspects will be included in all phases of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.

The approach to counseling at CFCE is also individualistic. This means that the fact that no two people are exactly alike is given due consideration in every aspect of the therapeutic process. For this reason there is no "one-size-fits-all" or cookie-cutter counseling done here. Each client's therapy is tailored to their individual and unique personality, life experience, needs, and concerns.

> CFCE's Attitude

God-Centered and God-Serving

It is our hope that the counseling environment all clients experience at CFCE is the very best possible and the most likely to encourage the healing and growth you seek.

For this reason, every effort is made to ensure that the counseling environment is characterized by the intelligence of God the Father (Proverbs 2:6), the attitude of God the Son (Philippians 2:5-8), the evidence of God the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), and adherence to the "Golden Rule" (Luke 6:31).

CFCE Statement of Faith

CFCE is a biblical Christian counseling ministry. Biblical Christian counselors, by definition, are committed to the Old and New Testaments as the only authoritative rule of faith and practice. Both the faith and conduct of biblical Christian counselors, as well as their counseling theory and practice, are formed by the standards of Scripture.

These standards include:

  1. The Bible is the inspired, inerrant, authoritative, and sufficient Word of God consisting of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments;
  2. There is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
  3. The deity of our Lord Jesus Christ as the eternal Son of God, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return to earth in power and glory;
  4. For the salvation of lost and sinful men, women, and children, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential;
  5. A person becomes justified by grace alone through faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ alone;
  6. The present ministry of the indwelling Holy Spirit enables Christians to live a godly life;
  7. The resurrection of the saved unto eternal life, and the resurrection of the lost unto eternal damnation;
  8. The spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ and His Church.

Biblical Christian counselors perform their service as part of the ministry of the Christian church, embracing thereby the doctrines and values of historic, traditional, and orthodox Christianity. They uphold and support the common bond of fellowship, faith, and unity as prescribed in the Scriptures and seek to establish a relationship between the counselee and a loving God within the framework of a local Christian church. Biblical Christian counselors will always seek the approval, recognition, and oversight of their counseling ministry by their church and a spirit of cooperation and mutual support with local sister churches of like precious faith and activities that exhibit this spirit.

(Adapted from the 2013 Statement of Faith of the former National Association of Nouthetic Counselors, now the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors)

"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you."

— Psalm 23:8 ESV