Programs & Services

Our staff has specialized training to facilitate growth and healing in the following areas.

Depression

Tired of troubled sleep, persistent discouragement, disappointment about the future, eating too much or too little? Or maybe you are worn out from feeling always on edge, restless and unable to focus without feeling worried and tense.

Growing Toward Health As A Couple

Have you ever wondered about things you can do to enrich your relationship with your spouse? What are the specific developmental tasks for your relationship as you seek to grow it? Is there a really helpful way for couples to talk with one another and feel both safe and heard?

Growing A Healthy Family

What are the specific tasks you can tackle that will help your family grow and mature? How do these tasks change across the family lifespan? Do you ever feel your life is spent coping with the urgent instead of focusing on the important?

Becoming A More Effective Parent

What helps parents develop and maintain a healthy, durable and satisfying relationship with their children? How can parents collaborate with one another to enhance their effectiveness in raising children? How can we help our children grow into mature persons of strength, compassion and integrity?

Spiritual Guidance

What does it mean to tend one's own call spiritually? How is this focus related to other life concerns? Is there only one model of tending to one's own spirituality?

Aging Toward Maturity

Have you ever wondered about the direction and meaning of your life? What is the difference between aging and maturing? Can aging become an adventure? What is the difference between disease and illness?

Maturing Through Grief And Loss

How can we go on living when someone we love has died? Is quality life after loss possible? Would you like to know how to avoid the "just get over it" quicksand?

Help With A Wide Array Of Psychiatric Concerns

What can be done for people affected by ADD? What is schizophrenia and how can I prevent it from robbing me of my life? Some people tell me my mood changes so fast I must be bi-polar. Our staff has specialized training in these and a wide array of other mental health issues.

Moving Through Divorce And Recovery

Have you ever wondered if there is life after divorce? If there is, what are the stages in recovery? Is there a way to move through the experience of divorce and its aftermath that assists the healing process?

Remarriage And Blending Family Development

What can we do to make it better? How does a blending family work? What developmental tasks should we attend to as we work to grow?

Sexual Dysfunction

Is this as good as it gets or can I hope for more? This is an important issue that deserves thoughtful and skillful treatment.

Recovery From Trauma And Abuse

When the nightmares and troubling thoughts make you think you're losing your mind - how to recover.

Career Counseling

How do you discern and decide if your career path is best suited to you? What do you do when it's time to change? How can you survive when your job leaves you?

Consultation For Religious Leaders And Institutions

This service is offered for religious leaders who seek to become more effective in their ministry.

Samaritan Counseling Center of Atlanta

First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta
1328 Peachtree St. NE, Suite B317
Atlanta, GA 30309-3902
404-228-7777