Christian Counseling Services

03/18/2023

Sr Miriam's talks on healing are beautiful ways to restore your love for God and yourself during Lent.

Take a healing journey with Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT, as she helps you turn away from what wounds you and toward God who heals you and makes you whole. Each week, Sr. Miriam will lead you to meet the tenderness of God’s mercy, the power of his love, and the restoration of your heart and li....

05/12/2020

Resilience is important to good mental health and wellbeing. It helps us to overcome adversity in general and, more specifically, mental health challenges, including substance use disorders. All of us, at some point in our lives, need to tap into resiliency to overcome one obstacle or another.

05/06/2020

Stay connected, stay well!

For most people, the term “social distance” is contradictory to the very nature of who we are: social beings whose very existence relies on interacting with others, whether through families, workplaces, neighborhoods, nations and beyond. So when we’ve been asked to “social distance” due t....

04/06/2020

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03/22/2020

Practice makes everyone safe.

The guidelines around social distancing continues to grow. Here’s what each step looks like, who they apply to, and why they’re set in place.

10/09/2019

Please read.

New research suggests a person's reliance on his or her smartphone predicts greater loneliness and depressive symptoms, as opposed to the other way around.

10/04/2019

Therapy for cowgirls, cowboys, and country folk.

American Counseling Association
Cow Cuddling Lets People Relax With Help of Friendly Bovines

ACA member “Doc” Warren Corson III was recently quoted in a piece for TODAY on the therapeutic benefits of cow cuddling, a practice in which people spend time embracing, brushing and talking to cows.

"It will not replace traditional therapy and it's not designed to. But a lot of people, we've lost connection to nature and there's a need for touch," said Corson, director of the Community Counseling Centers of Central Connecticut.

Corson, an LPC with a nonprofit practice and therapeutic farm in Connecticut, is an ACA blogger and a former columnist for CT Online.

A counseling license doesn't inoculate practitioners against wrestling with "what if" thinking, struggling with problems in their home life and personal relationships, or experiencing some of the same hardships that they help clients walk through.