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Healing Hearts. Restoring Purpose. Releasing Destiny.
We equip believers to steward anger biblically, break unhealthy patterns, and grow in emotional wholeness, spiritual maturity, purpose, and destiny.
Who we are
A Christ-centered educational and formation training center.
EPICS Keeping Your Cool Institute is powered by EPICS Counseling Services and serves as a Christ-centered educational and formation training center dedicated to equipping children, youth, individuals, couples, families, leaders, ministry teams, and the broader Body of Christ to steward anger God’s way.
The Institute provides curriculum pathways, educational classes, coaching, mentorship, small groups, discipleship experiences, leadership development, workshops, retreats, and hybrid in-person and virtual learning opportunities.
We help people understand their emotions, renew their minds with biblical truth, develop Christlike conduct and godly character, strengthen relationships, and build the emotional and spiritual capacity to live with greater purpose and intentionality.
Our goal is to help believers move beyond hiding, suppressing, reacting to, or spiritualizing their emotions and toward greater emotional awareness, healthy expression, spiritual maturity, personal responsibility, and Christ-centered transformation.
Who we serve
- Children and youth
- Individuals
- Couples
- Families
- Leaders
- Ministry teams
- The broader Body of Christ
Our signature perspective
Anger is not the enemy—unformed anger is.
Our goal is not to eliminate anger. Our goal is to help believers understand it, bring it under the authority of Christ, and learn to respond with wisdom, self-control, truth, courage, and love.
Our philosophy
Emotional growth and spiritual growth are not two subjects.
The EPICS Keeping Your Cool Institute is a Christ-centered emotional and spiritual formation pathway rooted in the belief that true spiritual maturity includes emotional integrity, self-awareness, healing, biblical character, and personal responsibility.
We believe anger is a God-given emotion. Anger itself is not the enemy; unformed, unmanaged, and ungodly responses to anger can become destructive. Rather than teaching people to suppress, deny, fear, or spiritualize their emotions, we teach them how to understand, process, and steward those emotions under the authority of Christ.
Our work helps individuals recognize what is happening beneath their anger, examine unhealthy thoughts and patterns, take responsibility for their responses, establish healthy boundaries, communicate effectively, and respond in ways that reflect biblical wisdom and Christlike character.
We believe emotional growth and spiritual growth should not be separated. Emotional awareness creates an opportunity for deeper discipleship, while biblical truth provides the foundation for how emotions are understood and expressed.
Our approach creates safe, structured, Christ-centered environments where people can learn, practice, reflect, heal, grow, and develop the capacity to respond rather than simply react.
Our mission
Our mission is to restore emotional wholeness within the Body of Christ by equipping believers to steward and sanctify anger through biblical formation, renew unhealthy patterns of thinking and behavior, and walk fully in their God-given identity, purpose, and destiny.
Our approach to emotional and spiritual formation
Seven movements, in order.
Our approach is built on the understanding that meaningful transformation involves the heart, mind, emotions, behaviors, relationships, and spiritual life.
Recognize
We help participants identify emotions, triggers, thoughts, beliefs, behaviors, and relational patterns.
Understand
We explore what may be beneath emotional reactions and help participants develop greater self-awareness and emotional language.
Renew
We examine unhealthy thought patterns and replace them with biblical truth and healthier ways of thinking.
Take Responsibility
We teach participants to distinguish between what they feel and what they choose to do with what they feel.
Respond
Participants learn practical skills for communication, self-control, conflict resolution, boundaries, problem-solving, and healthy expression.
Form
Through biblical teaching, reflection, practice, accountability, and discipleship, participants develop Christlike character and emotional maturity.
Transform
The goal is lasting change—helping individuals develop new patterns of thinking, behaving, relating, and responding that are consistent with their identity in Christ.
We believe formation takes time. Therefore, our programs are designed not merely to provide information, but to create opportunities for learning, practice, reflection, accountability, community, and spiritual growth.
What makes our approach unique
We do not treat anger as a behaviour problem to be corrected.
We view anger through the combined lenses of biblical formation, emotional awareness, personal responsibility, behavioral change, and spiritual maturity.
Forms rather than simply manages
We focus on developing the whole person rather than teaching anger-control techniques alone.
Integrates faith and emotional wellness
Biblical truth and emotional education work together rather than being treated as separate areas of growth.
Addresses what is beneath the anger
We explore thoughts, beliefs, wounds, triggers, unmet needs, relationship patterns, and learned behaviors that may influence emotional responses.
Teaches stewardship rather than suppression
Participants learn that emotions can be acknowledged without allowing emotions to dictate behavior.
Emphasizes sanctification
We recognize emotional growth as part of the believer’s ongoing journey of becoming more Christlike.
Builds personal responsibility
We teach participants to take ownership of their choices, responses, communication, and relationships without shame or condemnation.
Why we exist
Many believers have learned to pray about their emotions without learning to understand them.
Some have been taught to suppress anger. Others have been told that experiencing anger is itself sinful. We believe there is another way — and our ultimate goal is to help people move:
- ReactionResponse
- SuppressionHealthy expression
- ConfusionUnderstanding
- DysfunctionHealthier patterns
- Emotional bondageGreater freedom and maturity in Christ
Our services
Six families of formation work.
Curriculum pathways, educational classes, coaching, mentorship, small groups, discipleship experiences, leadership development, workshops, retreats, and hybrid in-person and virtual learning.
Educational & Emotional Formation
Where most people begin: teaching, coaching and the discipleship pathway itself.
Family, Youth & Relationship Services
Formation that includes the household — parents, couples and young people together.
Mentorship & Spiritual Growth
The company you keep while you grow: mentors, small groups and prayer.
Church & Ministry Training
For leaders and teams who want to carry this work into their own congregations.
Courses & Educational Resources
Structured curriculum, online and in person, with materials to keep.
Spiritual Support & Freedom Ministry
Faith-based spiritual support, offered alongside — never in place of — appropriate care.
See every service the Institute offers
E-Panther Leadership Academy
12 weeks, faith-based leadership and emotional wellness for youth and young adults ages 12–19 — with parents in the journey too.
Scripture and foundational truth
Our teaching is rooted in the whole counsel of Scripture.
Renewal of the mind. Self-control. Wisdom. Patience. Forgiveness. Love. Healthy communication. Personal responsibility. Reconciliation. Boundaries. Spiritual maturity. Character formation. Identity in Christ. Purpose and calling.
- Romans 12:2Renewal of the mind
- James 1:19–20Being quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger
- Ephesians 4:26–27Learning to handle anger without giving it destructive power
Begin your journey
Start where you are. Grow into who God called you to be.
Begin your journey
Explore our formation pathways and discover where to begin.
Explore programs
Find classes, groups, courses, workshops, mentorship opportunities, and specialized programs.
Join the community
Connect with others committed to emotional wellness, spiritual growth, and Christ-centered transformation.
Book a consultation
Learn more about our educational and formation services and determine which pathway may be appropriate for you.
Healing Hearts. Restoring Purpose. Releasing Destiny.
Your emotions have a story. Your response has a choice. Your future has a purpose.
EPICS Keeping Your Cool Institute is here to help you understand, steward, and transform the way you respond—so you can grow in emotional wholeness, spiritual maturity, and Christlike character.
These services are offered within the Institute’s educational and faith-based scope and are not a substitute for appropriate medical or mental health treatment.