Measuring What Matters: A Therapeutic Report Card for Lasting Change| Trainings

January 9, 2026

Measuring what Matters: A Therapeutic Report Card for Lasting Change
Date: Friday January 9, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Location: 419 Main Street Blackshear, GA. 31516
Hosted by: Cord of 3 Counseling Services

Description: Measuring What Matters equips counselors with a biblically grounded and psychologically sound framework for assessing client motivation, readiness, and engagement from the very first session. Participants will learn how to use the Motivation & Readiness Scale to identify a client’s internal drive for change, tailor treatment based on readiness level, and reinforce a transformative counseling process rooted in research. This training provides practical tools, scoring guides, homework frameworks, and interpretation strategies that empower clinicians to track growth, increase effectiveness, and cultivate client ownership of their healing journey.

If you do not attend the training, the materials from the training will not be able to be provided to you.

Training Objectives:
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Assess Motivation & Readiness

Participants will learn to accurately assess a client’s current level of motivation and readiness using a standardized, biblically informed tool, allowing for deeper insight into the client’s internal vs. external drivers for change.

2. Tailor Interventions by Readiness Level

Participants will be able to apply specific, level-appropriate strategies and homework assignments that align with the client’s readiness score, ensuring more effective engagement and improving treatment outcomes.

3. Facilitate Transformational Change

Participants will develop the ability to guide clients toward transformation by integrating motivational interviewing principles, transformational psychology, and spiritual formation strategies into the therapeutic process.

Registration Deadline: January 2, 2026
CEUs available: 5 CEUs applied for through LPCA of Georgia

Bio Information:

Clay Gill, MS, LPC

Clay Gill is the Executive Director and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Georgia where he serves as ED and counselor for Cord of 3 Counseling Services. He graduated from Richmont Graduate University with a Master Diploma in Christian Counseling and Georgia State University with a MS in Professional Counseling. Clay says “I work with families of all ages and of various problems but my favorite counseling is with couples helping to strengthen their marriage. I also work with men who are struggling in different areas. I see clients in the Blackshear main office and in our Vidalia office. In addition to counseling, I am thankful to be able to serve the ministry of Cord of Three from a business perspective. I oversee the financial integrity of Cord of Three and work to keep the Vision and Mission that God has placed on this ministry as the primary focal point of all the work that we do. I married Doris in 2000 and we now have 3 wonderful children: Rance, Eli, and Callie. I serve as the pastor to Waycross Primitive Baptist Church in Waycross, Georgia. We enjoy kayaking as a family. I love being with my family and working with God’s people.”

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Counselor Education & Supervision

Cord of 3’s Counselor education and supervision program is deigned to support interns who are completing their master’s degree, counselors who are working toward licensure, and professionals who are working to integrate their Chritian faith into their clinical practice.

Equine Therapy

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Play God’s Way

A Christ-centered play therapy model to meet the spiritual, emotional, and mental health needs of children. Through play therapy, children learn to accept responsibility for behavior, engage in healthy coping strategies, acquire problem-solving skills, develop empathy for others, and gain an understanding of identity in Christ.

ADDICTION RECOVERY

Addictions always originate in pain… The question is never ‘why the addiction?,’ but rather ‘why the pain?’” (Dr. Gabor Maté). Counselors can help those struggling with addictions address underlying painful issues and then break the addictive patterns.

Child & Adolescent

Behavioral issues at home or in school often have an underlying cause, such as trauma, depression, anxiety, or other mental health conditions. The experienced staff at Cord of 3 meets each child with love, builds trust, and applies effective treatment that approaches the root cause of the behavior.

Marriage & Family

As in couple’s counseling, family counseling focuses on the relationship and dynamics within the family unit and between the individual members of it. Counselors will help clients identify unhealthy or unhelpful patterns, and to address them by developing healthier communication and conflict resolutions skills, create realistic expectations, and restructure familial roles to benefit everyone. The ultimate goal is to help the family be better able to thrive as a team.

STRESS & TRAUMA

Every person will at some point have at least one potentially traumatic experience, but this doesn’t impact everyone in the same ways. When struggling to process and move on from negative life experiences, therapy offers a powerful method of finding support and healing.

EMOTIONAL WHOLENESS

Individual counseling can help overcome the sometimes overwhelming fear and hopelessness by helping you better understand the conditions that led to the emotional brokenness you are experiencing, and applying healthy coping skills against them.