Counseling Services
Counseling is provided to the older adult (60 and over) with specialized services marked with a history of: Professional excellence, a knowledgeable staff, effective programming, confidential relationships and a nondenominational service.
Purpose
Counseling should respond to the unique strengths and weaknesses of each family and individual. It promotes growth, insight and autonomy within the constraints of the person’s needs and abilities.
Professional Counseling can help individuals to change ideas, behaviors and/or relationships that are painful or destructive and help promote a positive mental, spiritual, physical and emotional well-being.
Fees
There is no fee for service, however insurance is billed and all donations are welcome. All donations received are used to supplement programs and services.
The Program
The older adult counseling staff work with each person and/or family member to design an effective individualized counseling plan to achieve the desired changes.
Typical Problems May Include:
- Retirement adjustment.
- Emotional stress due to coping with chronic illness of self or others.
- Family problems with adult children or elderly parents.
- Being at-risk of institutionalization due to the inability to manage activities of daily living.
- Abuse or neglect by significant others.
- Changes in life-style as a result of reduced income, health, marital status change or inability to function
- Depression due to loneliness, isolation or other problems.
- Abusive dependency on medication and/or alcohol.
Accreditation:
Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children
Affiliations:
Older adult counseling services provided at Catholic Social Services are cooperatively funded by:
Are Agency on Aging 1-B
(The services reported herein are performed pursuant to a contract with the AAA 1-B with Title III Funds, under the Older American Act and/or State Funds, and through the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging for people sixty (60) years of age or older.)
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Detroit
St. Clair County Commission on Aging – Millage Funds
United Way of St. Clair County
Counseling Services:
- Individual, marital, or family counseling.
- Group counseling with focus on:
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Grief and loss issues
- Retirement adjustment
- Chronic Illness
- Problems with adult children and elderly parents
- Self Esteem issues
- Divorce Adjustment
- Community Seminars
Appointments
Prompt professional service may be provided at the following location
Port Huron: (810) 987-9100
Fax: (810) 987-9105
Catholic Social Services of St. Clair County complies with the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, The Michigan Handicappers Civil Rights Act, and Section 504 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973. No one shall be excluded from participation in any service or employment because of race, age, religion, sex, national origin or handicap.