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"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: smpcc@StMattPastoralCounseling.org

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?

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.

G. Wade Rowatt, Jr..................................Center Director, Counseling Supervisor

Elizabeth Reda Milazzotto.....................Associate Director, 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

Larry C. Minter..........................................................................Staff Counselor

Mary Ann Koffenberger..............................................................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 two satellite centers located in Crestwood, Kentucky, and in Frankfort, 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:

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 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.

Send mail to smpcc@StMattPastoralCounseling.org with questions or comments about this web site.