Welcome! to the Center for Growth and Healing

You've come to the place in your life when you think you might be able to use

some professional help. Perhaps...

• your marriage is not doing so well.

• you feel depressed too often.

• you've lost someone close to you and it seems to be taking far too long to get on with life.

• you feel stuck in a job that is not giving you any satisfaction.

• you're at a point where there just doesn't seem to be much use in continuing to struggle with living.

Or just maybe you have a vague sense that you could be much more of a person than you are right now. There are of course dozens of possible reasons to seek professional help. But where do you turn? Who is out there who can help you with your particular problem or concern?

The fact is that there are many persons who can provide you with assistance— psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychoanalysts, psychiatric nurses, pastoral counselors, psychotherapists, marriage & family therapists. All of these professional helpers offer counseling services. Yet each brings to the counseling different approaches and goals.

Here at the Center for Growth and Healing we specialize in pastoral counseling.

Pastoral counseling is a form of psychotherapy in which a pastoral counselor, as a representative of a religious community, uses the insights and principles of religion, theology, and behavioral sciences in working with individuals, couples, families   and institutions toward the achievement of wholeness and health. An important ingredient which makes pastoral counseling different from other forms of counseling and psychotherapy is the conviction that life's crises and transitions are best met by both the wisdom of religious teachings and the knowledge and skills of the behavioral sciences.