George Ohlschlager serves as Executive Consultant to the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), and is Founding / Executive Editor of Counselor’s Edge: The AACC eJournal Monthly.  He is Chairman of the AACC Law & Ethics Committee, drafted and revised the AACC Christian Counseling Code of Ethics, and maintains a nationwide clinical/ethics/forensic consulting, speaking, and expert witness practice.  For the past five years, George was Senior Editor and Writer of Christian Counseling Today, AACC’s flagship publication; and was Executive Director of the International Board of Christian Counselors, the AACC-affiliated credentialing agency, from which he is credentialed as a Board Certified Christian Counselor. 

Prior to that, as a California LCSW he served as Co-founder and a supervising clinician at The Redwood Family Institute, still the only North Coast Christian counseling agency in Eureka, California. George also teaches as Visiting and Adjunct faculty in the graduate counseling program at St. Petersburg Theological Seminary in Florida, and in the D.Min. program in marriage and family therapy at Denver Seminary in Colorado.

Currently George consults with AACC members worldwide on all kinds of clinical and ethical matters; and is working on and coordinating numerous writing and editing projects leading up to the 2011 Silver Anniversary World Conference by and for the AACC.  He will be Consulting Editor to a new AACC Life Issues Bible; and to the new Christian Counseling ‘Best Practices’ Signature Series, and the companion book on Choosing Effective Treatments in Christian Counseling.  He was honored to serve as Consulting Editor to The Soul Care Bible, 2001, which was republished as The Bible for Hope.  He is Executive Editor and co-author of Competent Christian Counseling, 2002, which is a leading American graduate textbook for Christian counselor training. 

He is also co-editor/co-author of the Caring trilogy of AACC books: Caring for People God’s Way, 2005; the upcoming Marriage and Family Counseling: A Christian Approach, and The Caring Book on Healthy Sexuality.  George is also writing American Killing Fields, about the murder massacres at Virginia Tech, where two of his Hokie children were on campus and at-risk on that terrible day, and at Fort Hood; and Spiritual Practices in Counseling, which will include his PhD dissertation at the heart of the book.  He also co-authored Law for the Christian Counselor, 1992, and Sexual Misconduct in Counseling and Ministry, 1995, which are both being republished by Wipf and Stock Publishers due to their continued demand, and has co-authored and ghost-written two other books.  He has also written and published over 300 articles, chapters, columns, codes, reviews, reports, monographs, and legal briefs, and has made over 100 conference, seminar, and other presentations in his many fields of interest.

A 1975 B.A. psychology and religious studies honors graduate of Humboldt State University in California, George received an M.A. with high honors in counseling psychology and biblical and theological studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1979 (now part of Trinity International University). 

He then earned M.S.W. and J.D. degrees in 1984 in a dual-degree, interdisciplinary studies program in social work and law at The University of Iowa.  And via a Graduate Fellowship recently awarded him, George is now completing an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in counseling psychology and spiritual formation at the International University for Graduate Studies, an Oxford/English style program of mentored doctoral education, in and accredited by the West Indies government on St. Kitts/Nevis.

George and his wife of 37 years, Lorraine, have three adult children, and live now with their dog and cat as ‘empty nesters’ along the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountain front-range in Bedford county near Lynchburg, Virginia.  He can be contacted at his e-mail address, goslager@aol.com.

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