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Gretchen W. Janssen, D.Min., Executive Director
Welcome to
the Creative Living Counseling Center website! This website is to
introduce you to Creative Living Counseling Center and contains
information about our organization, therapists, programs and support
groups.
The Creative Living Counseling Center (CLCC) helps people live
creative, productive lives that are emotionally and spiritually
fulfilling through quality psychotherapy and pastoral counseling
services as well as a wide variety of community outreach programs.
A unique aspect of our program is our ability to offer pastoral
counseling which offers sound psychological psychotherapy combined with
spiritual sensitivity. CLCC is an accredited service center of the
American Association of Pastoral Counselors.
What is pastoral counseling?
"Pastoral counselors are clergy or persons in religious orders who have
received extensive training in individual psychotherapy and marriage and
family counseling. They integrate their training and skills as clergy
and as psychotherapists, combining care and concern for each person with
an understanding and appreciation of human and spiritual growth and a
respect for religious traditions."
At times, any of us can be confronted by uncertainties and
life experiences that threaten to exhaust our emotional and spiritual
resources. At other times we are not in crisis, but seek encouragement,
personal growth, and self understanding. Across the nation, more than
3,000 certified pastoral counselors provide a variety of services to
help during these times. They bring to psychotherapy a pastoral concern
for individuals.
Pastoral Counseling respects each person’s individual growth process
and personal beliefs. There is no judgment or condemnation in the
therapeutic process. The challenge is to find the meaning behind actions
and feelings and understand ourselves more deeply. Pastoral Counseling
is based upon the belief that within each person there is an interaction
of body, mind, and spirit. Effective therapy includes the recognition of
this interaction. The goal is for each person to discover new wholeness
of body, mind, and spirit.
What Will You Gain? With the support of a counselor you can grow into
a new awareness, see yourself more clearly, understand your problems,
gain insight into your marital and family conflicts, learn special
problem-solving skills and reach new plateaus in life.
Other resources that can help you with the issues, challenges, and
topics are also listed on our Resources page. Some of the resources are
nation wide, others are available primarily to the residents of Bergen
and Passaic Counties and northern New Jersey.
If you live in northern New Jersey and want the support of counseling
or therapy while working with any of these issues, please contact the
Creative Living Counseling Center for help. 201-327-2424.
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