Clergy Consultation Service

David Wells D.MIn.
Director of Clergy Services

Professional Consultation
Personal Support
F O R C L E R G Y
... by Telephone

The Clergy Consultation Service offers a psychologically informed and spiritually sensitive resource to assist clergy, their families and their congregants. Since 1987 we have helped thousands of clergy with the multitude of issues and challenges found in being on the front lines of ministry.

Our orientation is multi-faith, multi-disciplined and inter-denominational. In addition, we have arrangements with multi-cultural experts, theological schools and international providers of both mental health and medical information databases.

Our staff of certified and licensed Pastoral Counselors, Marriage and Family therapists, Psychologists and Psychiatrists are ready to assist you with consultation, assessment, planning and referral.

Many denominations and clergy groups have subscribed to the Clergy Consultation Service on behalf of their leaders on a national or regional basis. Individual churches and clergy may subscribe also. Oftentimes churches subscribe for their clergy. For an individual clergyperson, the subscription is tax deductible as a business expense.

Convenient and
Dependable

We maintain a 24-hour presence, for consultation, information and referral through a toll-free 800 number. All of our telephone consultants are licensed mental health clinicians and many are fully ordained practitioners. We are uniquely qualified to provide a supportive, consultative and collegial environment designed to expand options, address emotional issues and sort out the many dimensions of ministry.

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Why do Clergy turn to CCS for support?

Clergy turn to CCS for professional consultation to help them deal with difficult situations they encounter in ministry. They also consult CCS for confidential, empathetic personal support.

Do any of these scenarios sound familiar?...

You have a "clergy killer" on the loose in your congregation. He has collected five other dysfunctional families in your community and is trying to stack the deck against you with your governing board. In their view, you are not the same as the "old" minister who has just retired.

A teenager has just confided to your oldest daughter that he is thinking of killing himself. What is the best plan to address this?

A family in your congregation has a daughter who lives in a state far away. She has recently called to say that her husband has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. She isn't sure what to do or where to go for help for her family with this shocking news. Your family seeks your help to find the best resources available in the daughter's state from you. How could you find information to respond?

Mrs. S shows up at your office just when you are putting finishing touches on your next sermon or funeral message. Somehow she is always there to touch base with you at inappropriate times and you don't know how to help her.

PERSONAL SUPPORT

You have been working 70-80 hours per week, without a vacation for several years. Your spouse is concerned about clergy burnout. He/she is agitated and feels your relationship is in trouble. To whom do you talk about these sensitive matters?

Recently you have been feeling depressed, stressed and having trouble sleeping. There is a vague sense that you are not feeling well. With whom could you check out these thoughts and feelings; where could you be assured of strict confidentiality?

Your family has experienced and unusual number of losses over the last few years. Several close relatives have died, your first child has left home, and you have just taken a new job. You are experiencing anxiety at unusual times and can't seem to figure it out. You feel the need to talk to someone, but who?

THE CLERGY CONSULTATION SERVICE CAN HELP

These are just a few scenarios encountered by persons in ministry. Frequent confrontations with life and death issues, debilitating diseases, and human conflicts can have a wearing and burdening effect over time, on both our spiritual renewal and our psychological functioning.

The Clergy Consultation Service can help. In time of depletion of reserves, we provide a confidential, empathetic and professional trained response to enable you to look at new options, plan ways to renew yourself or your congregant, and to find creative structures of belief, practice and information. With a network of pre-screened professionals and centers across the world, we can tailor a response to your need.

Clergy Consultation Service
of The Kairos Institute
Robert H. Clark, STM, Executive Director
(973) 966 - 9099