The Counseling Place

Our mission is simple, and our tactics are powerful. We strive to disrupt and help people heal from intergenerational trauma, restore and strengthen mental health, and cultivate resilience in individuals of all ages. We’ve been committed to this work since 1979. 

The Counseling Place provides crisis intervention, crime victim advocacy, mental health education, and short- and long-term affordable, professional therapy services. Our clients include children, teens and adults affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, suicide, and other traumatic incidents. Our services are free or fall on a sliding scale, based on ability to pay.

Our Victims' Assistance Program services help victims of violent crime and other tragic events recover and avoid repeat victimization. Under our Victims' Assistance Program, clients receive free professional therapy and advocacy services. Victim advocates assist survivors with crisis intervention, accessing resources, safety planning, and emergency services. Advocates also help victims apply for Crime Victim Compensation, understand Victim Rights, and receive updates on the status of their cases and offenders. Therapy is available for children, teens, and adult victims of violence, and therapists are trained in EMDR, ART, or other modalities beyond traditional talk therapy.

Our Youth Programs services help young people strengthen mental health and manage big emotions without violence toward themselves or others. Project Positive, our 5-week mental health education course helps teens strengthen emotional intelligence, understand their brains, and manage stress and big emotions. Some of our participants hold full-time jobs while attending high school and completing the program. Often, our course facilitators identify the need for and provide additional assistance, such as individual therapy and the meeting of basic needs, like food and clothing. Youth services are fee-based, and donations help us drastically reduce or waive fees altogether.

Our Community Counseling Program provides affordable, professional therapy for families and individuals of all ages. From grief to every day stress, people come to us for help with a variety of life struggles.Community Counseling fees fall on a sliding scale. Sessions take place in-person or by video, depending on the client's need.

 

Our Needs

Throughout the year, The Counseling Place encounters unpredictable needs for clients, particularly those who have survived a trauma and are facing financial adversity. While many obtain assistance from churches and other nonprofits, often they disclose their needs after hours or they require a swift and creative response. Donations through NTGD will help us provide emotional support and emergency essentials to our clients.

Pictured left: Victims' Assistance Program Director, Ashley Akers, in a truck with donated furniture for a family who fled domestic violence.