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E-Connect Newsletter / 5.25.16
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View our 2015 annual report
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to launch full annual report, click image
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The Center's 2015 annual report, a snapshot:
* 23,945 hours of counseling were provided
* 1,845 psychiatry sessions were provided
* 2,472 clients were served
* 60 percent of clients were girls and women
* 35 percent of clients utilized our sliding pay scale
* 75 community members were trained in suicide prevention skills
Thank you to everyone who made 2015 a fantastic year, continuing into the present.
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Welcome Zeb!
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Zeb Treloar-Reid, M.Div.
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We're pleased to introduce our new administrative assistant/receptionist, Zeb Treloar-Reid.
Zeb is a friendly face who greets those who walk in the Center's front door, a helpful voice who answers the telephone, and a generally supportive individual dedicated to making everyone's lives easier. Zeb provides key administrative and technical services to the Center, including direct support to the Center's psychiatry team and the development office.
Zeb has a B.A. in religion with a minor in psychology from Nebraska Wesleyan University and a Master of Divinity from Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
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Welcome Rhonda!
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Rhonda Haler
Licensed Psychologist
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We're pleased to introduce our newest therapist, Rhonda Haler, a licensed psychologist providing services in the Center's COOL practice (Children Overcoming the Obstacles of Life).
Rhonda has a M.S. in psychology from Drake University and comes with more than 30 years of clinical experience. Rhonda provides individual and family therapy to children, adolescents and young adults. Her area of treatment interest include depression and mood issues, anxiety, trauma, attachment and adoption issues, parenting issues,
dissociative disorders and
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).
To make an appointment with Rhonda, call 515-274-4006 or email [email protected].
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Have you seen our new three-minute video?
View our three minute video for a brief overview of our clinical services, including a tour of our facilities designed especially for children and adolescents. We were pleased to launch the video at the Women Helping Women luncheon on May 13 (see below).
The video was produced with thanks to our good friends at the Business Record and Click! Photography.
We also extend sincere gratitude to two courageous former clients who were willing to tell their story on tape so that others may be inspired. Kim and Ellie, thank you.
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Wow!
Walk with Mark fundraising update (as of May 19, 2016): $13,900.75. Thank you, amazing supporters!
Mark Minear, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist at the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center, walked across Iowa Hwy 30, from river to river, in April and May 2016 to raise awareness and funds for mental health counseling assistance for men and boys. Why? Because men and boys are less likely to seek counseling, and more likely to complete suicide. Mark wants to change that. More information, including links to Mark's thoughtful blog posts while on his journey here:
www.dmpcc.org/walkwithmark
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Thank you!
Thank you to everyone who made the 18th Annual Women Helping Women Luncheon such a beautiful and meaningful time together. Please watch for photos and results soon. (For quickest updates,
"like" our Facebook page.) Make sure your name is on the invite list for next year:
www.dmpcc.org/whw.
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Redefining Aging, a conversation series - register for more chats!
Thank you to everyone who came to help us launch this series through our wine and cheese gathering on April 14.
We are hosting three more conversations and you are welcome to join us. Not a class, not a support group, this conversation series will explore ways to reframe common misconceptions about a universal experience: growing older. While pop culture tends to focus only on the losses that come in this time of life, we will consider the significant opportunities.
Participants will discover new ways to express their values, creativity and spirituality - in a joyful and supportive community.
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More opportunities to enhance Leadership and Spiritual Life
Watch for more information for summer and fall programs.
For more information contact Diane McClanahan, Director of Leadership and Spiritual Life,
[email protected]
, 515-251-6667.
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Sara Miller served as an intern with the Center January - March 2016, her senior year at Simpson College.
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What is pastoral counseling?
This is the first in a series of articles on pastoral counseling and spiritual direction. While this introductory article will explore the idea of "pastoral counseling," the rest of the series will profile individual counselors and spiritual directors at the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center.
Pastoral counseling is not that different from other counseling or therapy. Counseling, including pastoral counseling, is a way of dealing with personal or relationship concerns, issues, or problems that a person encounters in their life. Adding the word pastoral to counseling adds a sense of openness to airing spiritual questions, and pastoral counselors may have a greater comfort level with dealing with those questions though all clinicians can be attuned to the spiritual. An important note to go with pastoral counseling is
that there is openness to the spiritual questions being asked but the client has to ask the questions because the counselor will not automatically assume the client wants to talk about matters of faith.
Read more. . .
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Our mission is to bring understanding, hope and healing to people of all ages through counseling and education.
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Our key services:
Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center is a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization
serving 2,450 individuals annually including children, adolescents, adults, couples and families.
Although best known for its 44 years of quality, professional mental health therapy, the Center is a multi-faceted organization providing a range of services:
- Counseling, including specialized services for children and adolescents
- Psychological testing and assessment
- Psychiatric consultation and care
- Training for clinical professionals
- Leadership and spiritual life programming
- Career Coaching
- Conflict transformation and strategic planning services for congregations, nonprofits and businesses
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5.25.16
 Dear Reader,
I am so lucky to have this view from my office. Lately I've been able to open up the windows to let in sounds of the birds and breeze. I love that I can work in a small, dark, lamp-lit office while simultaneously enjoy the big blinding outside. Feels like a best-of-both kind of thing. My 19 year old daughter recently asked if I'm ever happy because I always seem to want a little bit more. She said: "Can't you just like what you have?" (It was in a restaurant whereby I asked the wait staff for a different table with a better view, and then noticed another table with yet a better view.) I told her she made a good point but didn't think to mention that I actually do like my office just the way it is, though I'm old enough to know things never stay the same.
Also, I'm struck by how much this office window resembles the cover photo we chose for the 2015 annual report (see top post). It was an accident. Maybe the idea of examining insides and outsides of offices, hearts and brains has been an unwitting metaphor for this spring. Or maybe I am simply drawn to both dark and light.
It has been a busy, wonderful time at the Center and I hope that this newsletter gives you a small window (door?) into (out to?) some of the amazing things that we are doing together. Thank you for your interest and support. And thank you for this incredible privilege to communicate the Center's commitment to counseling and education.
All best,
Terri Speirs
Director of Marketing and Communications
Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center
515-251-6670
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