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Mr. David R Wells

Licensed Professional Counselor | MA, LPC

Pursuing transformation, relationship growth, and healing from brokenness

WCS desires to see God’s restoration in relationships and has a heart for premarital and marital counseling, for father-son relationships, for spiritual formation, and for missionary care.

Wells Counseling has a passion to help families, couples, students, and individuals through a biblically based, cognitive-behavioral, and solution-focused approach emphasizing spiritual direction.

David is the founding member of Wells Counseling Services. He began counseling clients in Houston in 1999. Wells Counseling Services was established in May of 2010 after David had ministered at churches focusing on relational growth, counseling individuals, families, and married couples. From January of 2013 until May 2016, David served as the Local and Global Outreach Minister and Director of Counseling Services at First Baptist Church Burleson before relocating to College Station, Texas to reopen Wells Counseling Services. That position included the clinical director position of their counseling center, job corps, benevolence ministries, and local and global missions.

For about ten years, David worked as the Associate Minister of Counseling Services at the Julianna Poor Memorial Counseling Center of Houston’s First Baptist. The JPMCC is one of the leading church-based counseling centers in the United States. During his time there, the center grew to provide nearly 8000 hours of counseling service a year. While David worked there he developed a passion for counseling and missions while several doors opened up for him to follow the Great Commission and pursue opportunities that consisted of improving cross-cultural workers’ relationship with God, themselves, and their families and the rest of creation.

David begun his studies at Denver Seminary in 1993. Later on he moved to the DFW area where he then attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and graduated in 1997. David is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Supervisor with a Masters in Marriage and Family Counseling. He desires to see God’s restoration in relationships and has a heart for premarital and marital counseling, father-son relationships, spiritual formation and missionary care. He was ordained as a minister at Lake Pointe Church in Rockwall, Texas.

God has given David a love for the outdoors, especially the mountains which have become a place for learning and growing spiritually for him. He has a passion for backpacking, his sons’ sports, swimming and hunting with occasional basketball. Over the last couple years, the Lord has placed a desire to explore God’s creativity through hiking, spiritual formation, and missions with plans to do more as God opens doors.