Church Therapy Associates wants to bring clinical mental health care into your church setting.
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS:
- A partner church subscribes, outsourcing the clinical mental health care needs of their congregation to Church Therapy Associates. Their subscription fee is based on the number of client slots they want to have (based on church size). The subscription level can increase as the need increases over time. The church also provides office space and emergency on-site support via trained pastoral staff who regularly respond to crisis in their own work.
- A Master’s-level counseling intern is placed at a new site. Clients pay a co-pay level subscription fee weekly or monthly, and this is automatically billed to them. As a non-profit, our services are low cost and on a sliding scale.
- Licensed counselors provide weekly clinical supervision. Emergency on-site support is present at every site at all times when the counseling interns are seeing clients.
- When the counseling intern graduates, they can continue at their site to accrue hours towards licensure if they would like. They are working for Church Therapy Associates throughout the process, creating a seamless transition and continuous services for the partner churches. As they grow professionally, they will become licensed and will begin to supervise others.
- All fees, liability, regulatory oversight, record keeping, and phone systems are centralized under Church Therapy Associates through HIPAA-compliant systems, so that churches do not have to worry about any of these details.
- Not all clients are appropriate for our services. Individuals who have various risk factors will be referred to outside agencies for counseling or mental health treatment.
Read a longer description of the Church Therapy model here
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