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Thank you 
for helping us bring 
understanding, hope and healing to many in need. 
Our hearts are grateful for you.




Mary Gottschalk
Board Chair
Jim Hayes
Executive Director
Announcing our 2017 #GivingTuesday Community Ambassadors!

Thank you to Kathy and Ted Stuart for serving as the Center's 2017 #GivingTuesday Community Ambassadors, and providing a $2,000 match challenge for hope and healing. 

Kathy and Ted Stuart

"It feels good to give."
-- Kathy and Ted Stuart, long time supporters
of the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center

Tuesday, November 28, 2017
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Tips for getting through the holidays
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Billie Wade

special to the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center

by Billie Wade, writer

The holidays carry different meanings for all of us. Some enjoy the festivities and the hum of life as people become busy with shopping and planning and cooking and wrapping and decorating. For some, they're ordinary days on the calendar. Some face the days with dread and trepidation, preferring to go to bed November 1 and wake up January 1 just in time for the Tournament of Roses Parade. And, some have other wants and needs during the holiday season. Whatever this time means for you, honoring your feelings and life rhythms can ease the tension.

Getting through the holidays can be challenging, but these twenty-three strategies may help smooth the edges of stress:

"It brings me great joy. . ." 
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Our mission is to bring understanding, hope and healing to people of all ages through counseling and education.
Our key services:  

Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center is a nonprofit organization  serving more than 3,700 individuals in 2016 including children, adolescents, adults, couples and families. The Center is not aligned with a particular religious group and respects the values of all.  Although best known for its 45 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
  • Psychiatry (medication management)
  • Psychological testing and assessment
  • Training for clinical professionals
  • Biofeedback therapy and other holistic approaches
  • Spiritual direction
  • Community education including suicide prevention training
  • Leadership and spiritual life programming 
  • Career coaching
  • Conflict transformation and strategic planning services for congregations, nonprofits and businesses
 www.dmpcc.org   / 515-274-4006
In gratitude,

Terri Mork Speirs
Director of Development and Marketing
Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center
515-251-6670