“Trying to “fix” an addicted adult is an impossibility. Our journey with our adult addict was terrifying. My husband and I through the hell of worry and anxiety and trying every which way to “fix” him. More honestly, it was mostly me who did everything in my power to save him and his life by paying bills, mortgages, buying food, gas, clothes... anything that would help to maintain the staus quo of his life. It wasn’t until he overdosed that I finally hit the wall.
My husband found Mike Wood, a Christian counselor, who himself overcame a drug and alcohol addition. We went to Mike to seek counsel to learn how to deal with our son’s addiction. I think I spent at least the first few months with Mike crying and listening to him encourage us using the word of God and practical measures but it was several months before I “heard” him and let go of caretaking our son’s addiction and trying to manage his life.
Mike encouraged me to allow God to heal our son - so I began using God’s promises to encourage myself that there was indeed healing in the Word. I especially clung to Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it, “ for our son was raised in a faith-filled home. I would cry out to the Lord for our son’s complete healing. Mike also encouraged me to stop the flow of money - which was very hard since it meant losing his house and car.
But I followed the advice of a very wise counselor who reminded me that I could not predict what was going through our son’s head when I would be concerned how this or that would affect him. I would be thinking he was worried about x when is essence all he was thinking was where to get the money for more heroin. Mike shared his experience as an addict and would always bring me down to earth when I shared my predictions of what our son was doing or what he would do. I began to slowly realize I truly had no option but to pray for him, to stop enabling him, and to continue healing myself and focus on my life.
So we continued to love our son. Even when he would call or text all hours of the night and be totally non-coherent. Even when we saw how dirty he was and how he asked us for food. We told him we loved him on every call, that he needed help, and we would help him get help. Even when it seemed like there was no light at the end of the tunnel, with Mike’s guidance we continued to work on us.
Stopping all financial aid and “bringing the bottom up” - allowing our son to experience the consequences of his choices - was Mike’s course of action for our situation. That along with prayer and guidance from the word of God encouraged us to stay the course.
After years of hearing him say “I got this” when he didn’t, our son finally chose rehab as his last resort. Mike’s approach of “reasoning together” while using his experience as a recovered addict and as a Christian were invaluable in our journey - my husband’s, mine, and our son’s. We could not have had the strength nor wisdom to deal with our son’s addiction without his guidance. I thank the Lord for his instilling in Mike the gifts that led us freedom from worry and anxiety and the eventually healing of our son from his addiction.
As a footnote: our son has with God’s grace maintained his sobriety since choosing rehab.”

“I have benefitted greatly from the Biblical counsel and encouragement I have received at New Beginning Counseling Ministry. As my needs have come more into focus, we have worked together to set goals, explore heart motives and grow together to form a partnership that challenges and spurs me on towards those goals.

My counselor has been very flexible and has remained invested in my journey. This experience out of all the previous attempts at counseling, has been the one I feel God has been present in.”

“Mike has completely transformed my life in such a positive way. I don’t think I would be here without his grace and patience with me. We worked through some challenging obstacles and I never felt like I was alone. It is a complete blessing to receive counseling from him.”

“I have been conversing with Mike for about 2 years now. I have gleamed many, many insights regarding my relationship with God, and how I react and interact with others. I am blessed every time we meet, and so much wisdom is passed on during conversations. Mike is a great mentor, and a friend and a father to the fatherless. I highly encourage anyone looking for sound Biblical counsel to seek Mike. God is using him in a mighty way, I am overjoyed to say it, Thank you, Mike.”