Bonita I Cox, MSW, LCSW

Bonita Cox joins the existing staff in a part-time capacity to provide individual, family, and group therapy.  She has direct practice experience in the fields of public child welfare, employment and training, shelter services to homeless women and children, home health care, out patient mental health services, and Healthy Families Indiana Initiative for parental education and support.  In addition to her work with the Christian Counseling Center, Ms. Cox provides private practice social work services by contract with agencies and individuals for consultation, supervision, advocacy, and community education.  Bonita Cox is a graduate of Anderson College and Indiana University School of Social Work.  She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the North American Association of Christians in Social Work. 

James T. Hawkins, MAFT, LMFT

Rev. James Hawkins, M.A., LMFT is a consulting therapist who provides individual, marital, and family therapy. He is a graduate of Christian Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy. Additional educational credentials include a B.A. degree in Bible/Theology/Music from Gulf Coast Bible College in Houston, Texas and an M.A. in Social Science from Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California. He holds professional memberships in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.

Ordained to the ministry in 1979, he served as senior pastor of a church, President of the Association of the Church of God in Southern California, a missionary assignment with his wife for eight years to Tanzania and Kenya, faculty member of Kima International School of Theology, Kenya, East Africa and Founder and Executive Director Servant Care International, which provides pastoral care and support services to missionary and pastoral families. Rev. Hawkins and his wife, Dr. Mary Ann Hawkins, are the parents of two adult children and make their home in Anderson.