Professional Counseling Associates

06/03/2024

There are many kinds of abuse that can happen in marriages. We often hear about physical, emotional, verbal, and mental abuse in our society. Still, there is another kind of abuse that’s not talked about as much, which is financial abuse.What...

03/15/2024

Learn about PACEs to help children overcome ACEs, events or conditions, such as childhood abuse, neglect, domestic violence and parent substance abuse.

04/16/2022

Thrivers are raised, not born. Through her decades of research, psychologist and parenting expert Michele Borba found seven traits kids need in order to become resilient, mentally strong and self-aware adults. Here's how parents can teach them.

03/27/2020

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/april/fighting-anxiety-with-old-testament.html?share=%2fbah6aiYTjke%2bafOtWps9K5LJLtiykhY

The ancient Scriptures are a surprising source of support in our struggles with stress.

03/25/2020

Good article to help us process what we are currently experiencing culturally with COVID-19.

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a collective loss of normalcy.

03/18/2020

UPDATE REGARDING THE CURRENT COVID-19 VIRUS

To Our Valued Clients and Community,

These are unprecedented times. On 3-16-20, the CDC and President Trump encouraged the public not to meet in groups more than 10. Obviously the COVID-19 virus has surprised all of us and the news and recommendations from our medical professionals and government seem to be changing by the hour. With the recent announcements of schools closing statewide, as well as so many other workplaces closing or encouraging employees to work from home, we know that all of us – at our workplaces and in our families and homes - are being impacted in many different ways.

At PCA, please know that we will do all we can to help ensure the health and wellbeing, physically and emotionally, of all of our clients as well as their families and our shared communities. Thus, PCA is enacting proactive measures and taking the appropriate precautions and accommodations.

For your scheduled appointment, please let your provider know if you would prefer to still meet in-person at the office, or if you would prefer the option of tele-therapy by phone or e-therapy by online video conferencing. Or, if you would like to cancel and reschedule to a time when the experts expect lower risk, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will do our best to answer your questions and provide any accommodations possible.

Respectfully, Dr. Raymond Branton & Dr. John Michael

08/03/2019

Stop reading this and go talk to a friend.

All the followers, none of the friends.

07/28/2019

Interesting and sad news about Joshua Harris.

(RNS) — Some evangelicals who denounce the prosperity gospel seem to have no problem touting the purity culture that say God will reward those who wait.

03/23/2019

When a person inhales a ma*****na cigarette, he or she sees it in terms of the pleasure potential, altered consciousness, reduction of pain. When I view it as a physician I see it as containing an active chemical which has health implications.

03/22/2019

Both parents matter! But here is research on how dads matter.

Kids with involved fathers are less likely to break the law, drop out of school, have risky s*x, and end up on welfare. Here's what we know about "Father Effects".

02/16/2019

There are potentially 400,000 cases of depression in the US linked to cannabis use