(Dr. Bessing in Toronto in a collaborative counseling team.)
Dr. Joseph Bessing has worked for over thirty years in the fields of counseling, education, and charity spreading compassion, support, and empowerment via counseling, mental health therapy, and relationship support.
Dr. Bessing’s counseling services have brought healing to couples going through marital issues, LGBTQIA+ identifying persons, families going through dysfunction, and has developed a curriculum for intervention and mediation within various native tribes of the Arizonian region. His work has empowered and impacted persons of every nationality, ethnic background, faith group, and marginalized communities across the world.
As husband of 33 years to a wife stricken with Multiple Sclerosis for over ten years, Dr. Bessing has personal life experience in dealing with medical counseling as a Chaplain both in hospital and a hospice setting. He has provided grief counseling to countless families for over 35 years.
Dr. Bessing served as the Rector of Cosendai University of Nanga Eboko from 2001-2003. He has given back to his native country of Cameroon, Africa via the Worldwide Coalition For the Spiritual Development of the American Church, (a 501[c]3 which he founded in January of 1997);
Dr. Bessing is a charismatic orator with strong communal and family ties. He learned English as an entrepreneurial young man in pursuit of his dreams which led him to Manhattan, New York in the eighties. He then learned Spanish in attempts to get to know a lovely, young woman who showed interest in learning French. She would eventually become his wife. As such, Dr. Bessing provides counseling services in French, Spanish, and English.
Dr. Bessing currently resides and works in Phoenix, Arizona and attends to his wife, Maria, who lives in an assisted living facility. They have two children, Frieda, a Flight Attendant/Entrepreneur and François, a classically/Operatically trained vocalist and songwriter who graduated with his B.A. in Music, Magna Cum Laude.
(Image: Dr. Bessing (standing in the center) volunteered as a Counselor in 2008 to a refugee camp of over 10,000 people fleeing civil war in Chad, Africa.)
In 2008, through the efforts of the United States’ State Department, the American Embassy of Chad, and ADRA International, most foreigners were escorted out of Chad due to violent conflict stemming from civil war. However, Dr. Bessing stayed at the request of the Director of ADRA International to train Red Cross volunteers to assist in providing emergency psychological counseling to the refugees.
He assisted hundreds of patients, some of whom were mothers, sitting on dirt floors breast feeding their children. He was to be advised of any suicide attempts and intervened in these high risk situations daily for seven months in attempts to bring hope and stability to the refugees in overwhelming circumstances.
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