The Marla Rushing Center for  Counseling is now open in the historic Wolfson House at FBC San Antonio, providing compassionate, faith-based mental health support for:

• Children
• Teens
• Families
• Veterans
• Adults

Operated in partnership with The Ecumenical Center, the center offers:

• Play Therapy
• Trauma Care
• Evidence-based Therapies
• Support Groups

Helps individuals deal with the often complex concerns and problems faced by teenagers in today’s world.

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Help individuals to a deeper self-understanding and self-appreciation through mental health, professional, and lifestyle concerns. Individual counseling is one-on-one care for emotional, relational, and vocational stress, which might include depression, anxiety, grief, faith concerns, and more.

We use a team approach, drawing upon the unique talents of professionals from the counseling, theological, and medical disciplines. Our collaborations allow us to renew a person’s mind, body, and spirit.

Our counselors have graduate degrees and are certified or licensed as professional therapists by the American Association of Pastoral Counselors or a state licensing board.

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Fee subsidies to make services available for persons unable to pay the standard fee.

Please call The Center office at 210.616.0885 if you have additional fee questions.

Includes play therapy which allows children to communicate their needs, express feelings and wishes, and to facilitate healing through age-appropriate activities designed specifically to help deal with emotional distress.

We also offer testing services for children through our Mindwise Now program.

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Community Counselors help people who are uninsured, whose existing coverage does not provide mental health services benefits, are low-income and lack the money to pay for counseling services, or who would not receive treatment any other way.

Counseling services are provided by trained, licensed professional counselors, licensed clinical social workers, and licensed marriage and family counselors. Sessions are private and conducted in a safe and familiar environment such as churches and community centers.

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Volunteers:

We are grateful for those who support The Center through their time.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact The Center at 210.616.0885 for more information.

Donations:

The work of The Center would not be possible without the generous donations from individuals, religious congregations, foundations, and businesses and from the income generated from The Center's services and programs.

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Mail your donation to The Center at:

The Ecumenical Center, 8310 Ewing Halsell, San Antonio, TX 78229.

You can also participate by donating through:

• Vehicle Donations
• Planned giving
• Funding our endowment
• Attending or sponsoring our events
• Joining Legacy of Life
• Providing congregational support

The Ecumenical Center collaborates with many organizations to provide quality, educational workshops to strengthen the community’s care providers.

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At The Center, we’ve long recognized that creative arts can help people cope with mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual issues.

Join us at The Center for a no-cost, monthly therapeutic rhythm-making session led by Jorge Ochoa, Occupational Therapist. 

Expressive Therapeutic rhythm-making can have many benefits, including:

• Accelerating physical healing and boosting your immune system
• Feeling more connection with others
• Feeling of well-being
• Relieving emotional trauma
• Reducing stress.

Expressive therapeutic rhythm-making sessions are open to anyone, so bring along the whole family. No experience is necessary!

To reserve a seat, please email Leila Cenanovice or call The Center at (210) 616-0885.

Free.

Usually involves several family members and helps with:

• communication
• problem-solving
• conflict management
• losses such as death and divorce
• change
• understanding of family dynamics

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Provided in the recognition that change and growth continue through the life cycle, and with the awareness that the older person may have particular needs.

Counseling can be provided for the older person experiencing difficulty or for family members and caregivers concerned about the well-being of an older person.

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Designed to meet the particular needs of people who share similar issues.

Individual counseling is required before group counseling.

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One-on-one care for emotional, relational, and vocational stress, which might include:

• depression
• anxiety
• grief
• faith concerns
• and more

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Life After Loss is a program of The Ecumenical Center designed to help people better understand the process of grief, and how to live through it in a way that it's healing. It provides a place to share experiences and to support one another. Each six-week session is a teaching, discussion, and learning activity. It is led by trained facilitators with knowledge of bereavement, and grief support.

Sessions cover the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social implications of grief; the process of grief; memories and how to use them to heal; how to take care of yourself while you grieve; holidays and anniversary dates and planning for the future. Attending all six sessions is most beneficial, therefore no new participants are accepted after the second session.

The sessions are open to those who have experienced the loss of a loved one.

For a list of San Antonio area bereavement support groups, please click here.

Free.

Your counselor will provide you a comfortable, private, and safe setting. This will enable you to explore your goals and concerns and learn skills to improve your relationship.

Some of your concerns might include:

• Trust
• Communication
• Conflict Resolution
• Problem-Solving
• Sexual Issues
• Anger
• Body Image
• Financial Insecurity
• Relationships
• Stress Management

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The Center is one of the first providers of neurofeedback in San Antonio
We provide neurofeedback services to clients of all ages. Also known as EEG Biofeedback and Neurotherapy, neurofeedback encourages the brain to restore or establish neuropathways to improve mental, emotional, and physical health.

An innovative, researched, computer-based technique adopted by healthcare professionals around the world, neurofeedback is effective in helping to remediate several conditions including problems in attention (ADHD), anger, anxiety, impulse control, insomnia, migraines, PTSD, depression, head trauma, autistic spectrum disorders, Borderline Personality Disorder and affective disorders. Neurofeedback is complementary to existing medical treatments and mental health practices.

Good treatment begins with a thorough assessment. Symptoms provide significant guidance in selecting the best training protocol, but other measures are sometimes needed. When the clinical picture is complex, a quantitative EEG (qEEG) is often helpful in assessing underlying processes.

An interview with a trained clinician is required for a proper assessment.

Please call or click here to schedule an appointment.

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To view the Signs & Symptoms of Depression & Anxiety: A Guide for Children & Adolescents booklet, click here.

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At The Center, we’ve long recognized that creative arts can help people cope with mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual issues.

These activities can:

• Relieve stress
• Encourage creative thinking and problem-solving
• Increase brain connectivity and plasticity
• Boost self-esteem
• Improve the quality of life

Open Art Studio is a wonderful opportunity for people of all ages (6 to 106 years) to use art materials playfully in a relaxed setting.

To reserve a seat, please email Deb Murphy, LPC-AT-S, ATR-BC, or call The Center.

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This creative experience is FREE! All materials are provided.

At The Center, we’ve long recognized that creative arts can help people cope with mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual issues.

Join us at The Center for a no-cost monthly Poetry Writing Circle.

Bring your notebook or journal.

Expressive therapeutic poem-making can have many benefits, including:

• Accelerating physical healing and boosting your immune system.
• Feeling more connected with others.
• Feeling of wellbeing.
• Relieving emotional trauma.
• Reducing stress.

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Please call or email to reserve a seat!

Free.

Provides an opportunity for couples contemplating or committed to marriage to strengthen and enrich their relationship by building upon their particular strengths, exploring concerns, and clarifying expectations while gaining a deeper understanding of themselves and each other. Counseling is provided for individual couples and in larger group workshop formats.

We use a team approach, drawing upon the unique talents of professionals from the counseling, theological, and medical disciplines. Our collaborations allow us to renew a person’s mind, body, and spirit.

Our counselors have graduate degrees and are certified or licensed as professional therapists by the American Association of Pastoral Counselors or a state licensing board.

Please call or click here to schedule an appointment.

Counseling is available in person or virtually.

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Helps people in a variety of personal and professional relationships to understand relationship expectations, improve communication, problem-solving, and decision-making, and to develop an appreciation of differences. 

We use a team approach, drawing upon the unique talents of professionals from the counseling, theological, and medical disciplines. Our collaborations allow us to renew a person’s mind, body, and spirit.

Our counselors have graduate degrees and are certified or licensed as professional therapists by the American Association of Pastoral Counselors or a state licensing board.

Please call or click here to schedule an appointment.

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Available for individuals and couples who have questions or concerns related to the sexual aspects of their relationship and/or want to gain a deeper or more integrated understanding of sexuality and faith.

We use a team approach, drawing upon the unique talents of professionals from the counseling, theological, and medical disciplines. Our collaborations allow us to renew a person’s mind, body, and spirit.

Our counselors have graduate degrees and are certified or licensed as professional therapists by the American Association of Pastoral Counselors or a state licensing board.

Please call or click here to schedule an appointment.

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We support parents. You have one of the most challenging and rewarding jobs on earth.

Find help through our varied programs, including Child Parent Relationship Training and our online Parenting Tips resource.

Please call or click here to schedule an appointment for our Child-Parent Relationship training.

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