We are a not-for-profit service offering spiritually sensitive counseling to individuals, couples and families. We pursue the balance of life, love and peace with our clients who are suffering - knowing that suffering can be the occasion for positive change in all these areas.
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Services Offered
PASTORAL COUNSELING
We at Pastoral Counseling Services are prepared and eager to help you learn to live more vibrantly, love more fully, and experience greater peace.
We offer spiritually sensitive counseling to individuals, couples and families. No matter your faith, religious background or if you have no religious background at all, this is a safe place for you to grow and heal. We exist as a place of hope and refuge.
PRE-MARITAL & MARITAL COUNSELING
Building a Life Together?
A successful marriage doesn't happen by chance. Marriage takes two people who are committed to one another, and who are willing to work together to nurture and grow as a couple. Pastoral Counseling Services now offers Prepare/Enrich, a pre-marital counseling experience proven to help couples prepare for lasting, loving marriages.
Our counselors are trained to assist you with: -Marriage, family and parenting difficulties. -Enhancing interpersonal relationships at home, at work, or in groups or communities in which you participate. -Finding spiritual meaning and direction. -Anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, low self-esteem, a sense of failure or lack of fulfillment. -Making peace between expectations and reality. -Pre-marital counseling. -Emotional or spiritual problems associated with physical illness, injury or loss through death. -Stress related to employment, unemployment or work place difficulties. -Life cycle transitions from childhood and adolescence, through mid-life, and into balanced senior living. -Learning through loss, mourning, and grief, both past and present.
Our state licensed therapists and certified pastoral counselors are professionally trained to listen in depth to your disappointments and pain, to understand without judging, and to provide the support you need to develop greater balance in living, loving more deeply and finding peace within.
Fees and Payment
There are a number of ways to make therapy affordable. Clients who have concerns regarding fees should discuss their situation with the therapist. A sliding scale based on income and household size is used as a guide in determining reduced fees.
Services Offered To: Adults Couples Teens Children
Special Groups: Bilingual Faith-Based
Payment: Sliding Scale Pro-bono
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.