Center for Pastoral Counseling of Greater Philadelphia

02/07/2026

If you are caring for someone with dementia, you may want to read this book. 🙏

01/30/2026

If you are a caregiver of a Loved One who has dementia, there will come a time you will need to ask for help. Your LO's will need the "Next Level of Care". This may be in home paid help, or a Memory Care Unit with professionals who work with YOU to make sure your Loved One is safe. Please know you did not fail!
You need to know that you did the best you could do, but when it comes time that YOUR mental, physical and spiritual health is diminishing...you will need to ask for help for your own self care. You are not abandoning them, you will be one of the team, as you work with the staff. It takes a village to walk our LO's home. ❤🙏

"Caregiver support group" forming now. Will hopefully begin in March. If you are interested in joining, please email me at CardinalCounseling@gmail.com

01/23/2026

01/16/2026

Both parties have to feel safe to discuss disagreements. Both have to want to listen and take responsibility for their own actions for reconciliation and healing to happen. Pointing the finger at the other person only divides us more. The desire to understand the others point of view takes courage, vulnerability and emotional safety for sure. 🙏😇

01/13/2026

Please feel free to email me at CardinalCounseling@gmail.com for more information. If you do not think you are ready for a group at this time, please know I am here to offer one on one grief counseling. To lose a Loved One suddenly can cause "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" and cause you to stay stuck in your grief for a very long time. How you know that you are stuck is when you think about that day, you will feel like it is happening in the present moment. The body pain, flashbacks, and the feeling like you are reliving that day returns even though it may have been several years. It is true that your heart is broken and you will grieve forever, but healthy grief changes with the intention to allow your pain to transform and move towards a deeper love than ever before. Please call, you do not have to walk this path alone. 💔🙏

If you have lost a loved one from drug related harm and you feel you may be ready for a support group, please email me (Donna Liu LPC) at CardinalCounseling@gmail.com. Please let me know the best days/times to reach you. We are here for you. Sponsored by the Savage Sisters and the Center for Pastoral Counseling.

01/07/2026

If you have lost a loved one from drug related harm and you feel you may be ready for a support group, please email me (Donna Liu LPC) at CardinalCounseling@gmail.com. Please let me know the best days/times to reach you. We are here for you. Sponsored by the Savage Sisters and the Center for Pastoral Counseling.

01/04/2026

Therapy is much more then just talking.....it includes psycho-education, learning coping skills, getting a correct diagnosis, help with medication or weaning from medication. Therapy gives the client a safe, nonjudgmental place to process their thoughts so the therapist can help them identify any faulty thinking that may not be true. Therapists do not "fix" anyone. Their goal is to walk with you, listen deeply to what you are saying and not saying, to offer suggestions and give the client tools they may not have that will aide in their healing outside of the session.

As a trauma therapist and a grief counselor... I am here to walk the journey with you. How you know your body is holding onto a trauma is by paying attention to when you tell a story from your past and you feel as if you are reliving the experience. The emotions may arise the same, the pit in your stomach returns, you can feel the fight, flight, freeze response return. These symptoms, and others.....identify unprocessed pain that can cause emotional, spiritual and physical illness. By using EMDR and other modalities with a trained therapist, together you can process the traumatic experience safely, and move it out of the body so you can heal.

When struggling physically we go to our doctor.....when struggling mentally we call our therapist. For the last 19 years I have done my own therapy and I have a spiritual director. I practice what I preach and do my own work; make sure your therapist does too!! If you are considering therapy please feel free to call me for a free consultation session. If I do not have an opening I have other colleagues I can refer you to. Making the call is the first step to healing. Let's make 2026 your year to heal.
You can do this.....we are ALL a work in progress! ❤🙏 Call me at "The Center for Pastoral Counseling" at 484-442-0064.

01/02/2026

This quote by Richard Rohr views grief and loss as profound spiritual opportunities, not just obstacles, teaching that sitting with suffering, rather than avoiding it (a Western tendency), opens the heart to deeper love, compassion, and a transformative awareness of our interconnectedness with all life, allowing us to move from anger and control to empathy and wisdom, ultimately revealing God's presence in our pain and leading to new life and spiritual growth. Something to meditate on for sure. 🙏🧎‍♀️‍➡️

12/28/2025

Wisdom