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Solihten Institute is a nonprofit national mental health institute with a mission to inspire, educate, connect, and equip professionals who integrate mind, body, spirit, and community in their approach to caring for the wellbeing of others.
10/24/2025
Estate planning brings peace of mind—for you and those you love.
Solihten Institute’s free online will program and Advance Directive Forms are available anytime to help you plan with confidence.
It’s simple, secure, and aligned with our mission of whole-person wellness. Learn more: https://solihten.org/giving/planned-giving
10/23/2025
Our next offering in our virtual 2025-2026 CE Series will feature Anisah Bagasra, Ph.D. from Saybrook University on November 7th.
Dr. Bagasra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Science at Kennesaw State University who specializes in behavioral health research in the Muslim American and African American faith communities.
Sign up at the link:
This workshop will provide professionals with basic knowledge of Islamic beliefs, attitudes and common social norms that often impact willingness to seek help, conceptions of mental health, and attitudes toward treatment options. The goal is to discuss major Islamic worldviews, social norms, and com...
10/22/2025
This week we are pleased to share that the Samaritan Counseling Services of the Gulf Coast in Sarasota, Florida achieved renewal of their full accreditation from Solihten earlier in the spring for the next four years, impressing with a very positive report from their site visitor!
Learn more about their work here:
Instilling Hope. Transforming Lives. We are committed to helping people cope with their challenges, grow toward spiritual and emotional maturity and strengthen personal relationships. Contact Us You Are Not Alone Serving South Florida from 12 locations. Online & Zoom sessions available.
10/21/2025
This week, we turn the spotlight on the Executive Director of Prairie Sky Counseling Center, Jen Wewers:
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Jen is a mission-driven leader with more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, teaching, and pastoral care. As Executive Director of Prairie Sky Counseling Center, she guides the organization’s mission to provide culturally humble, spiritually integrated, trauma-informed care that supports healing and resilience.
Jen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Oberlin College and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she earned awards for preaching and for connecting theology and ethics to contemporary social issues. Her early career in education, ministry, and hospital chaplaincy informs her belief in the healing power of presence, compassion, and community.
Blending strategic insight with deep empathy, Jen brings both organizational expertise and spiritual grounding to her work—ensuring Prairie Sky thrives as a place where body, mind, and spirit are welcomed in the journey toward wholeness.
10/20/2025
It’s National Estate Planning Awareness Week!
Estate planning is an act of compassion and clarity.
Solihten Institute invites you to join our Samaritan Legacy Circle and offers you access to our FREE online will program and Advance Directive Forms—a lasting gift to help you care for your loved ones.
Our final Board Member spotlight is Melissa Spas! We are so grateful for her insights and involvement.
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After graduating from Allegheny College with degrees in women’s studies and religious studies in 2003, Melissa Spas studied ethics and theology at Harvard Divinity School. Since then, she’s served nonprofit organizations and religious institutions in higher education, including the Duke University Divinity School and Indiana University’s Lake Institute on Faith and Giving, part of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
From 2022-2025, Spas served as vice president for religion at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. Spas was responsible for strategy, programming, and partnerships related to every aspect of Chautauqua’s religious mission. Chautauqua Institution is historically grounded in the Christian tradition, with a commitment to multireligious and interfaith programming and community, in the Abrahamic faiths and beyond. Spas is also a lay person in the United Methodist Church and deeply committed to helping people of faith live out their values and make a positive difference in our world.
This presentation explores the concept of sacred moral injury, a profound breach of sacred trust that occurs within faith-based contexts. Distinct from conventional moral injury, sacred moral injury involves spiritual and institutional betrayal, systemic failure, and deep psychological and moral wou...
10/15/2025
Another week, another fully accredited Center to celebrate: The Ecumenical Center in San Antonio, Texas!
They received a renewal of their full accreditation from Solihten for the next four years after meeting all their standards and showcasing strong, stable operations.
Learn more about their work here:
The Center for Help and Hope At The Ecumenical Center, we serve as a catalyst to bring together community leaders in the research, education, medical and mental health professions. The … Continued
10/14/2025
Our Member Center in Green Bay has an event coming up next week that any and all dudes are invited to attend!
HEY DUDES!
You're invited to join Foundations for our October Dudes & T.A.C.O.S. event on Wednesday, October 22nd, from 6pm-8pm at Paradise North Distillery. We will be joined by very special guest Tom Farley—brother of the late comedian Chris Farley. Tom will share his personal journey with substance use and mental health, offering an honest, heartfelt perspective meant to spark connection and conversation.
This is a FREE event with FREE food! *This will also be a DRY EVENT.* All dudes, no matter who, are welcome at our Dudes & T.A.C.O.S. events. Please feel free to spread the word and bring your buddies.
Next up in our Center Director spotlight series is Paul Bretz, CEO of Centus Counseling Center in Denver, Colorado:
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Paul A. Bretz, D.Min., LCSW, MHSA, is passionate about high quality, accessible, spiritually integrated behavioral healthcare. His professional experience includes a range of pastoral, clinical, and behavioral healthcare organizational leadership roles.
Dr. Bretz is a graduate of Wheaton College, McCormick Theological Seminary, The University of Chicago: School of Social Service Administration, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and Regis University. Paul is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a member of the National Association of Social Workers Academy of Certified Social Workers, an ordained Minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist and Workshop Presenter.
10/10/2025
There is power in knowing we are not alone.
Happy World Mental Health Day! 🧠🌏
Today we highlight the importance of mental health support with these words from APA President Dr. Debra Kawahara.
10/09/2025
Our 2025-2026 CE Courses (sponsored by Valant) start next Friday! Earn 2 CE credit hours for each course.
You can choose individual courses or the whole series of six.
Sign up today: https://solihten.org/ce/
*Deadline for the Series Pricing is October 15th.*
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Solihten Institute is an interfaith counseling network comprised of over 50 centers in more than 300 locations that provide 600,000+ clinical hours every year.
We recruit, accredit, connect, educate, and advance counseling centers that practice one of the most effective paths to healing: spiritually integrated therapy.
Prior to 2019, we operated as Samaritan Institute, which was formed in 1972 when a physician joined together with two parish ministers and a seminar professor in Elkhart, Indiana. Together, they formed a counseling resource that integrates what people believe into how they heal.
For nearly half a century, this community of clergy, mental health professionals, and physicians has grown to serve a national collective of member centers who share a commitment to nurturing mind, body, spirit, and community.
Under the name Solihten (soh-LITE-en, wholeness + light), we will continue to grow the Institute well into the future while extending a spiritually inclusive message to counselors and clients across the nation.
Mission
Help affiliated Centers provide team-oriented, cost-efficient counseling, education, and consultation which emphasize the interrelatedness of mind, body, spirit, and community.
Accreditation
While each Center designs services and programs to meet the needs of its communities, all Solihten Centers are expected to achieve full accreditation to maintain sound organizational structures, efficient management and administration, high-quality clinical processes, appropriate personnel and financial practices, and professional accountability.
Collective Impact
Together with our Centers, Solihten Institute’s reach and depth of expertise dramatically influences:
• Appeals to managed care companies.
• Congregations considering Center development.
• Counseling Centers seeking a larger relationship.
• Referral sources moving to a new community.
• Denominations seeking linkage to pastoral care and counseling.
• New partners in healthcare organizations seeking non-profit behavioral health provider networks with a proven track record to fulfill the mandate of healthcare reform and more fully develop provision of primary care and behavioral health integrated care.
As a partnership, we impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who seek to feel whole.
