What is Christian Emotional Coaching?
What is Christian Emotional Coaching?
Christian Emotional Coaching (CEC) creates a trusted space for a small group of men to deepen their self-awareness and grow healthier relationships with God and others.
A key part of the coaching journey is learning practical skills: naming and integrating emotions with thoughts, and exploring how these shape our values and actions including true and false beliefs.
In this process, men discover how to bring all of life—thoughts, beliefs, behaviours and relationships —under the transforming grace of Christ and His Word.
Why does Christian Emotional Coaching exist?
All of us carry unique stories, shaped by personality, upbringing, and life experiences. For some, it can feel less natural to identify, express, or reflect on emotions and thoughts. Over time, this can make it harder to understand and express ourselves: both to God and others around us.
CEC offers a guided space where men can grow together in emotional awareness and expression, practice attentive listening and Christ-like response. It’s a journey of learning to process life’s current challenges, reflect on how the past has shaped them and looking towards the future with theological and personal depth.
It’s about nurturing maturity and wholeness under the Gospel, rather than fixing what’s “wrong.”
What can I expect in a group session of Christian Emotional Coaching?
CEC groups typically bring together three men who commit to meeting every 4–6 weeks for 1.5 hours.
These sessions blend structure and relational depth, creating real-time opportunities to learn, share, and encourage each other on the same journey under Christ.
Between sessions, participants may receive reflection questions to help continue the process personally in preparation for the next session.
Current groups have found that these groups become places of genuine, Gospel-shaped friendship.
Who runs Christian Emotional Coaching?
CEC is led by Rev. Simon Wong, Chaplain at Olive Tree Therapy. Simon completed his theological training at Christ College and has served in pastoral ministry since 2010. He has studied Mentoring and Coaching at Sydney Mission and Bible College, and is currently studying Biblical Counselling with the Christian Counselling & Educational Foundation toward accreditation with Biblical Counselling Australia.
In addition to serving part-time as a pastor at Burwood Presbyterian, Simon sees pathways like coaching, mentoring, and counselling as complementary to the local church—relationships of high trust where believers can grow under God’s Word, shaped by the unique journeys and relationships God has entrusted to them.