Biblical counseling is also known as nouthetic counseling. The counselor believes all that is needed to help a person love God and his neighbor as he should, is found in the Bible.
There is a warm family note to Biblical counseling, which is done among God’s children who seek to help one another become more like Christ. Thus, Biblical counseling is considered to be part of the Christian growth (sanctification) process whereby one Christian helps another get through difficulty that is limiting spiritual growth. One Christian gives counsel to another from the Scriptures, not with his own ideas or the ideas of others. He limits his counsel strictly to that which may be found in the Bible. Thus, Biblical counselors lovingly confront people out of a deep concern in order to help them make the changes God requires.
Moreover, Biblical counselors are concerned that counseling is always done to benefit the counselee in the spirit of I Corinthians 4:14.
All forms of counseling, Biblical, Christian or secular, seek to effect change. Biblical counselors believe God’s Word is sufficient to deal with all of our problems. Thus, Scripture is totally sufficient to help us change. This concept is expressed clearly in II Timothy 3:16-17.