Broken Chains InternationalReviews of brokenchainsintl.com

We enjoyed our visits there & the receptionist was very friendly but at the end of the day we didn’t receive the marriage counseling we signed up for. We went to 4 sessions total (2 together 2 separate) and never felt like we got Godly counsel on how to better our marriage. We spent $580 and I felt that medication was just being pushed more than trying to implicate healthy communication, etc.

I spent a year pursuing counseling here during my divorce. It was located near my home and I had no idea what to do or where to get help. This was useful but it was not really counseling but a class. What I needed was someone to actually discuss issues and engage in counseling, this was more of teaching and directing of how to love each other and the details of how to keep forgiving and love like Christ so that you won't get a divorce. After a year I ended up deciding to file for divorce and still had issues that I needed to try to discuss....when I called to schedule an appointment the counselor I had used for a year communicated through the secretary that she would not see me again because she felt that she was not able to help me any further. Over all it was an experience that was not as helpful as I needed and not worth the money.

Bad advice, “own advice!”

My husband and I were separated. I felt lead of the Lord to return home. I did. My husband went to Kevin and was in a really bad place emotionally. Kevin called me to try to talk me out of returning home. I've had a therapist since then tell me that this is bad therapist protocol to call the spouse of your client, especially when you have never met them. I do believe Kevin was just looking out for our best interest, but he was kind of pushy with me, a woman he had never met on the phone. He did eventually back off though. My husband did an intensive with him. I can say many years later, that it may have helped a little, but over all it did not. Kevin told my husband that he could sin all he wanted to, but he had to see that it wasn't working for him. This hyper grace message goes against the word of God in numerous places, especially Jude 1:4 "For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord." and 1 John 3:6 "No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. ... who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him." When my husband and I started to see improvement in his behavior, we mentioned to Kevin in a joint session that we couldn't pinpoint when he started getting better. Kevin looked at his notes and said he noticed it too and read to us that it was when we cut off the cable and internet at our house. My husband is a recovering porn addict and we had done this at MY suggestion, because of Matthew 5:29-30 "If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell," I think the intensive did help a little, but it was not life changing. When my husband started going to a church that preached about Holiness and Sanctification, and when they started holding him accountable for his sinful behavior is when I started to see the biggest change in my husband. Biblical counselors need to give advice that is biblical. I would not recommend seeing Kevin if you are married to a porn addict or if your husband has anger or unrepentant sin issues. I think Kevin's heart was in the right place, but he was deceived about some of the biblical advice he gave us. Hopefully he has changed since then. We saw him in 2015/2016. Also, when we left, he asked us to leave him a five-star review. This really bothered me. He didn't ask for an honest review, he asked for a five-star review. I love Kevin and pray for him occasionally and don't mean this to be mean. I just want to be honest in an effort to save someone else some of the pain that seeing him caused me.

I think honestly it was just communication was terrible. Follow up, follow through, email communication was hit or miss. You really need to fix. We had our last session and then it went dark. Never heard from Kim again.