The Belief Therapy model begins with the hypothesis that man is not a human being having a spiritual experience, but a spiritual being having a human experience.  Belief Therapy views life-controlling problems as having theological roots, that the Bible is not only inerrant but sufficient, that man's most serious problem is that of identity or Positional Identity Disorder (PID), and that by the time people are six years old they have been taught enough lies and developed enough strongholds in their minds to cause them problems for the rest of their lives.

Dr. Carlin often asks a Therapon class, "Have you ever thought that what you believe can destroy you?  A lie is a powerful as the truth if you believe it."

Dr. Carlin has built into the Therapon curriculum elements unique to Belief Therapy like Positional Cognition, Positional Identity Disorder, and Transitional Analysis.

Belief Therapy is totally an act of God.  Belief Therapy will not work unless God releases His liberating truth into the client.  "It is not our skills or abilities that heal, but God's sovereign act of revealing the lies in a personal belief system and replacing them with the truth," Carlin says.

The Therapon's ministry interest is directed toward habilitation, not rehabilitation.  Dr. Dean Ornish expresses The Therapon Institute's holistic approach to healing when he says, "We can use our pain -- emotional and physical -- as a catalyst to being healed, not just cured.  To me, "cure" means only getting back to the way we were before we became diseased.  "Healing" is when we use our pain or illness as a catalyst to begin transforming our lives -- healing our inner pain and our relationships, our hearts and our souls."

The Therapon Institute's mission is to help elevate the dignity of Biblical counseling by providing quality education that will enable the professional and Christian paraprofessional counselors with creditable certification.  TI has adopted the highest Ethical Standards in the industry.  TI's graduates are not psychologists or psychiatrists, but Belief Therapists.
 
In the first seven years of operation TI has graduated thousands of Certified Belief Therapists.  Among them have been Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselors, prison/jail chaplains, pastors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Master and Doctoral Degree level counselors, Christian medical doctors and nurses, parole/probation officers, college professors, school administrators, youth workers, Clinical Psychologists, and criminal justice ministry volunteers.  
 
The Therapon Institute has enjoyed a distinguished student body.  In doing so, TI has discovered that Christians involved in this discipline are ready for a Christian counseling model with professional level training, quality instructors, peer identity and accountability.

--Dr. Paul Carlin Founder of Therapon Institute and Belief Therapy