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A place for healing and hope ...
for everyone - adults, children and adolescents, individuals, couples and families
In today's fast-paced world, it is difficult to escape from the pressures and uncertainties of daily living. Career demands, personal relationships, and family situations often contribute to depression, grief, stress, anxiety, and other emotional hurdles. At the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center, we can offer you help with these problems.
We draw upon the unique talents of professionals from the counseling, theological, and bioenergetic disciplines. We work together to restore the whole person: mind, body, and spirit.
We can offer you - or someone you know - help to cope with the challenges of life, grow toward spiritual and emotional maturity, and strengthen personal relationships.
If you are facing stress or discord, whether because of a crisis or a long-standing concern, please call us today (515) 274-4006. We can help you enrich your life and deepen its meaning through the healing and hope of counseling.
If, on the other hand, you are a doctoral or master's level therapist, licensed with the State of Iowa, and looking for a professional, collegial work environment, the Center is interested in meeting you. Send your resumé to Ellery Duke, Ph.D., Executive Director, Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center, 2929 Westown Pkwy., Ste. 110, West Des Moines, IA 50266.
Pastoral counseling is ...
The Pastoral in our name is the traditional name for counseling that integrates therapy with a client’s values and/or faith. Center counselors seek to offer healing for the whole person - body, mind, and spirit - and see each dimension as worthy of care.
Pastoral counseling is built on the belief that life's crises and transitions are best met by the knowledge of psychology, the wisdom of theology, and with respect for a person's values and faith background. The Center's caring counselors enhance their academic training and licensure with compassion, acceptance, and intentional respect for the values and beliefs of each client.
How we make a difference ...
The Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center provides a wide range of counseling and takes a whole-person approach to healing.
- We help our clients find ways to express all their concerns.
- We understand the integration of mind, body, and spirit that exists within all persons, and this understanding informs how we approach therapy.
- Our view of healing involves questions of meaning and value as well as symptom relief.
- We respect the uniqueness and diversity of all human creation.
- We have a passion for professional education and training that ensures the highest quality counseling services for every client.
We can help you ...
- Improve self-esteem
- Resolve marital and family conflict
- Address parent/child concerns
- Ease the effects of anxiety or stress
- Heal from depression
- Grieve and recover from life’s losses and disappointments
- Address issues related to illness and pain
- Explore intimacy issues
- Understand your anger
- Heal from abuse and trauma
- Understand body image/eating disorders
- Confront addictive behaviors
- Resolve job-related concerns and find new meaning in your career/vocational life
- Strengthen your spiritual life
- Begin to reclaim optimal health, vitality, and well-being
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Services Offered for Couples and Families
- Relationship/Marital/Family Counseling
- Premarital Counseling*
- Marriage Enrichment
- Divorce Mediation
- Human Sexuality Therapy
* Preparing for Marriage
Building a successful marriage is one of the greatest challenges of adult life.
Center counselors facilitate marriage preparation with couples to increase awareness of their relationship strengths, acknowledge potential areas for growth, and understand important individual and relationship issues identified through their personal life summaries. When there is a second marriage involved, the dynamics of remarriage and stepfamilies are also specifically addressed. The per-session fee is based on a sliding scale and will be determined during the couple’s first session.
Please call the Center for further information or to make an appointment (274-4006).
- Integrative Energy Work
- Healing Touch Therapy*
- Health Promotion
- Acute and Chronic Illness Support
- Pain Management
- Self-Healing Consultation
- Spiritual Direction
* Healing Touch Therapy
Center staff share a deep respect for the complex integration of mind, body, and spirit that exists within all persons. This shared holistic premise provides the foundation for the Center’s approach to offering hope and healing through counseling services.
Healing Touch Therapy is one of our holistic healing approaches.
Healing Touch is a type of alternative healing using hands-on and energy-based techniques to balance and align the human energy field that integrates and connects mind, body, spirit. Healing Touch is gentle, respectful, and non-invasive. We have found Healing Touch to be helpful in the treatment of chronic pain, chronic and terminal illness, and other bodily disorders.
It also offers effective support for persons experiencing grief, depression,
and a variety of emotional or spiritual crises.
To find out more about Healing Touch at the Center,
contact Kathy Reardon at the Center (274-4006).
C.O.O.L. (Children Overcoming the Obstacles of Life)
C.O.O.L. offers a safe and nurturing place within the Center for counseling children. C.O.O.L. helps youth who have physical, emotional, and/or mental challenges, have been harmed or neglected by another person, or are having trouble adjusting to a major life-change. C.O.O.L. clients range in age from 2-18. C.O.O.L. counselors recognize that kids are not miniature adults. They have unique ways of viewing the world and expressing their emotions. Our child therapists in C.O.O.L. strive to build bridges among all the facets of a young person’s life ~ family, school, and community.
Issues Addressed and Services Offered for Children and Adolescents:
- Behavioral Problems
- Depression/Anxiety/Emotional Concerns
- Emotional/Sexual/Physical Abuse Issues
- ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
- Developmental Disorders, including Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
- Parenting and Parent/Child Relations
- Self-Esteem Issues
- Loss and Grief Responses
- Substance Abuse
- Evaluation/Testing
Please call the Center for further information about C.O.O.L. or to make an appointment with a C.O.O.L. counselor (274-4006).
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