In addition to counseling, Westminster Counseling Center offers its expertise to congregations and groups. Our therapists are eager to share their expertise in the form of workshops, presentations, seminars, retreats, etc.  We offer a wide variety of topics that can be tailored to your needs, audience and time constraints.  We are open to working with your ideas!

Mental health:

• Stress and anxiety
• Depression
• Grief and Loss
• Suicide prevention
• Addiction and co-dependence

Relationships:

• Pre-marital counseling: three or more sessions using the PREPARE-ENRICH inventory
• Couple communication: hearing, understanding and responding
• Relationship loss: support for the divorced or separated
• Family systems and how they work or why they don’t work
• Healthy boundaries: how to make them and keep them

Human development:

• The Enneagram: how to use it to better understand one’s self and personality
• Life review groups for seniors: could be a supportive, sharing group
• Biological basis of sexual orientation: information and discussion
• Talking to kids about sex: when, what and how
• Confirmation class discussion groups: communication, sex, peer pressure, etc.
• Parenting adolescents

Theology and Spirituality:

• Forgiveness: what it means, how it works, how it feels
• Mindfulness: what it is and how to nurture it
• Spirituality and aging: discussion and group sharing
• Sexual orientation: discussion about our interpretations of scripture
• LGBT Spirituality

We are happy to discuss with you how we might meet your needs for education and information. The counseling center charges $100 per hour for educational  presentations. Please contact Margaret McCray at 612.332.7743 x222 for more information.