St. Matthews Pastoral Counseling Center

"Where growth and healing is a journey."

St. Matthews

Pastoral Counseling

Center

3515 Grandview Avenue

Louisville, Kentucky 40207

(located inside St. Matthews Baptist Church)

use Macon Avenue entrance

Telephone: (502) 893-9831 or (502) 814-4444

E-mail: office@smpcc.net

Welcome to the St. Matthews Pastoral Counseling Center Home Page! We invite you to take a look around and see what we have to offer. Information on contacting us, and our organizational structure is located below or by clicking on the buttons to the left. Please contact us if you have any questions.

What is

Pastoral

Counseling?

Intake

Forms

Helpful

Links:

The goal of the St. Matthews Pastoral Counseling Center is to offer Christ-centered counseling, consultation, and education to those who seek it.

Life in our day is often filled with grief and pain, anguish and trouble, together with a great variety of scarred and broken covenants and relationships. Yet sometimes, even the noise of the world around us is overwhelmed by the raging storm within.

In these times, haunting memories of the past, the agonies of the present, and the fear of the unknown future drown out the still, small voice of God. The power and strength which still remain in us are paralyzed.

One of the primary biblical models guiding the work of the counseling staff is the New Testament image of compassion for all persons (Mark 6:34). For those whose personal lives, relationships, or covenants would benefit from a conversation with a competent pastoral person, the counselors of the St. Matthews Pastoral Counseling Center are here to guide them on a journey of changes, growth, and transformation in the context of Christian faith.

Glenn Williams.....................................................................Executive Director

G. Wade Rowatt, Jr..................................Director of Clinical Pastoral Education

Elizabeth Reda Milazzotto.......................Director of Pastoral Counseling Training,

Counseling Supervisor

Walter C. Jackson, III ......................................................Counseling Supervisor

John Lepper ..............................................................................Staff Counselor

Dodie Huff-Fletcher....................................................................Staff Counselor

George Dunn .............................................................................Staff Counselor

J. Fred Ehrman...........................................................................Staff Counselor

Vickie Johnson...........................................................................Staff Counselor

Elizabeth B. Shelton, M.D.................................................................Psychiatrist

Individual Counseling

Marriage Counseling

Family Counseling

Group Counseling

Specialized Care for Children and Teens

Pre-Marital Counseling

Spiritual Direction

Divorce Recovery

Anger and Anxiety

Depression

Supervision of Pastoral Counseling

Supervision of Marriage & Family Counseling

Interdisciplinary Case Consultation

Family Life Education

Pastors' Seminars

Clinical Pastoral Education

Pastors' Support Group

St. Matthews Pastoral Counseling Center works in cooperation with three satellite centers located in Crestwood, Kentucky, Frankfort, Kentucky and in Valley Station, Kentucky.

Dr. Walter Jackson serves as the Director of the Crestwood Baptist Church Pastoral Counseling Center which is located in Crestwood Baptist Church, 6400 Sweetbay Drive, Crestwood, Kentucky. The center may be reached at (502) 241-8534 ext 341. For information on the Crestwood Center click here:

Gretchen Fern Watson is the Director of the Frankfort Pastoral Counseling Center which is located in Immanuel Baptist Church, 1075 Collins Lane, Frankfort, Kentucky. The center may be reached at (502) 875-7502. For information on the Frankfort Center click here:

Jeanette Martin serves as Director of the Center for F.A.I.T.H. Counseling. The center is located in Faith Presbyterian Church, 9800 Stonestreet Road, Valley Station, Kentucky. The center may be teached at (502) 935-1811. For information on the Valley Station Center click here:

Pastoral counseling combines the insights and principles of Christian faith and theology with the knowledge and skills of the behavioral sciences. Pastoral counseling is an intensification of the general ministry of the church. Its primary goal is to empower people to experience increasing wholeness centered in Christ through the process of counseling conversations and with God's presence as a foundation. Because of the presence of God's Spirit, pastoral counseling conversations are more accurately understood as "trialogue" rather than "dialogue." We supply

We have an Intake Form which you may complete and bring with you to your first session. The form is for the use of your counselor only. All information is kept confidential. The form is given in two formats; the contents are identical. The first format is a form you may download, print, and fill in by hand. The second format is a form you can fill out on your computer and print out. However, you cannot save the completed form on your computer. Click on the appropriate button below.

Use this form to print and fill out by hand.

Use this form to fill out on your computer and print out

We have listed below a number of helpful links with a brief description of each link. We invite you to visit these sites which represent some of our partners in ministry.

St. Matthews Baptist Church. Our counseling center is located in the Educational Wing of St. Matthews Baptist Church. The counseling center was founded in 1984 by Dr. Wayne Oates and was begun as a ministry of the church. Looking for a church home? Look no further than St. Matthews Baptist Church. It's our home; we'd love it to be yours as well!

The Wayne E. Oates Institute. In 1993, Dr. Wayne Oates founded the Wayne E. Oates Institute with a primary purpose of bringing wholeness to mind, body and spirit. Dr. Oates had taught for years in both seminary and medical school settings. It was his vision to include the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of the person.

The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. (ACPE) is a multicultural, multifaith organization devoted to providing education and improving the quality of ministry and pastoral care offered by spiritual caregivers of all faiths through the clinical educational methods of Clinical Pastoral Education. The highlighted link will take you to the page where application forms are located.

The American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC) As a professional organization founded in 1964, AAPC was originally established to bring standards, order and communication to the newly expanding profession of Pastoral Counseling. Responding primarily to the Christian community's need for a form of depth ministry, pastoral counseling specialists emerged, drawing together the inspiration of the church and the wisdom of behavioral sciences. While maintaining these historical roots and vision over the past 40 years, AAPC is evolving into a more diverse professional organization serving within an increasingly complex world. Our members now represent a broader spectrum of theological and spiritual traditions and work among a wide variety of health care providers and settings. They provide services within increasingly multi-cultural, interfaith, multi-disciplinary and racially diverse communities and within a vastly more interconnected, conflicted and technically sophisticated world scene.

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