Clinical Programs Offered by the Samaritan Counseling Center
The Samaritan Counseling Center provides individual, couple and family therapy for a wide array of clinical, relational and spiritual issues.
Individual adults often seek our services with problems such as:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Loss of a loved one
- Physical and/or sexual abuse
- Anger management
- Work problems
- Reaction to recent painful events
- Addiction
- Loss of employment
- Transitions
Couples often request assistance with:
- Communication
- Conflict resolution
- Recovery from an affair
- Separation or divorce decisions
- Pre-marital counseling
- Parenting issues
- Re-kindling the relationship
- Blended family concerns
Parents often ask for help with their child or adolescent who is struggling with:
- Depression or anxiety
- Drugs or alcohol
- Separation anxiety
- Poor school performance
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- Acting out behaviors such as truancy, running away or violence
Our Center is involved in several programs designed to meet special needs in the community, such as:
Reclaiming Responsibility provides therapy for homeless families at the Spring Valley Center in Valparaiso. This therapy is an opportunity to cope with the emotional and relational stresses of homelessness as well as a chance to make good decisions for the future.
Ending the Cycle is individual and couple treatment for domestic violence. After a thorough evaluation, a program of anger management is created for the violent partner. When appropriate, marital therapy is provided for couples choosing to remain together to prevent future violence and to solve critical issues.EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) - A method of psychotherapy that has helped relieve many types of psychological distress. When a person is very upset, their brain does not process information as it does ordinarily. One moment becomes "frozen in time", and remembering may have a lasting negative effect. EMDR helps a person see disturbing material or "remember" in a new and less disturbing way. EMDR has been established as effective for post traumatic stress. Success has been reported using EMDR in treatment of the following conditions:
- personality disorders
- eating disorders
- panic attacks
- performance anxiety
- complicated grief
- stress reduction
- dissociative disorders
- addictions
- disturbing memories
- phobias
- body dysmorphic disorders
- pain disorders
- sexual and/or physical abuse
Prepare/Enrich Program is a customized couple assessment used for premarital counseling, marriage preparation, and marriage enrichment. This program identifies a couple's strengths and growth areas and is designed to help couples improve their relationship skills.
Spirituality and Counseling
One of the hallmarks of the Samaritan Ministry is treating the whole person – mind, body and spirit. In the last two decades, an overwhelming amount of scientific research has demonstrated the very strong inter-relationship between the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of human beings. This research is finding that spiritually active persons are healthier physically, emotionally and relationally!
Our therapy is sensitive to spirituality and we are able to include Christian faith, biblical insights and spiritual resources in counseling. We believe that spirituality is often a powerful healing instrument for clients.
We also help clients work with spiritual concerns such as:
- A loss of faith
- Guilt feelings
- An inability to forgive
- Anger with God
- Faith differences with a partner
- Moral dilemmas
- Spiritual Hunger
- Painful religious history.
Our therapists work within a client’s faith framework and it is our policy never to impose our beliefs on others. A person does not have to be religious to seek our services.