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His counseling orientation is based on his conviction that we are creatures of design, not chance or evolution. As a result, his approach is to assist those clients who are willing to bring their thinking and relationships into harmony with that design. The criteria he uses to determine that design are rooted in his biblical understanding of what constitutes mental health and healthy relationships.
Charles A. Jennings earned a B.S. degree in psychology, with secondary studies in engineering, from Arizona State University in 1967. He was first employed as a counselor in 1967. In 1970, Charles and his wife, Donna, joined Campus Crusade for Christ serving nearly five years as missionaries working with Andre’ Kole’s World of Illusion® stage show. In that capacity, he observed how easily we can be deceived and how fervently we will defend a deception as truth.
During his missionary service, he received biblical training each summer as a full time student at the Institute of Biblical Studies. This was followed by a fifteen-year career in business and then eleven years with the Arizona Superior Court. While gaining legal and administrative experience in the civil, criminal, and divorce courts, he finished Master of Counseling degree requirements at the University of Phoenix.
His counseling at The Jane Wayland Child Guidance Center, Family Service Agency, East Mesa Middle School, and Family Life Counseling, provided experience with and training from psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and special education instructors. He is certified by the National Board for Certified Counselors and licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners. The Board is charged with protecting the public by investigating reported ethical violations of counselors and disciplining when warranted.
To facilitate this change, he uses various therapeutic techniques to expose unreliable thinking and understanding styles usually developed during childhood. These techniques focus on our ignorance and misinformation (what you don’t know can hurt you), beliefs, and deceptions we have about God, ourselves, others, and how the world around us "should" or "must" operate. Those determine how we react and feel toward people and situations, and result in the unnecessary stress and pain we inflict on ourselves and others.
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