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Counseling
The demand for quality mental health services is expanding at a time when bottom-line oriented managed health care and average fees exclude more and more people from the healing process; even those with health insurance coverage are limited and do not receive sufficient services.
Consider the following statistics:
- Only 1 in 5 children with a psychiatric disorder gets treatment
- More children suffer from a psychiatric disorder than from leukemia, diabetes, and
AIDS combined
- 1 out of every 33 boys is diagnosed with Autism
- 54% of children in L.A. County fall into the low-income bracket
- 60-80% of adolescents who attempt suicide never receive follow-up care
- Over 80% of marriages with a special needs child end in divorce
Stillpoint serves the under served, those who cannot afford aid, but for whom therapy is essential. Some examples of our clientele are: youth at risk, struggling single mothers, parents of small children with special needs, and couples seeking marital help. At Stillpoint, low cost therapy is the rule and not the exception. Yet we are unique from the typical community clinic because we do not depend on student clinicians, who must rotate out of a clinic after six to nine months due to their academic schedules. Our staff clinicians are long-term, providing on-going stability critical for treatment of significant clinical issues.
Seminars and Workshops
Stillpoint's speaker's bureau offers a wide variety of topics, all focusing on healing and wholeness for the individual and the community at large. Communities we've serviced include: the Pregnancy Counseling Center, the Down Syndrome Assoc. of L.A., ChildSHARE, Angel's Way Maternity Home, local churches and schools, and our own Stillpoint community of supporters and volunteers.
Publications
Stillpoint offers a bi-monthly newsletter with a message of hope and inspiration. Articles, both new and previously published in other source material, are available on psychological and spiritual issues , and in the future we will be offering books written and collaborated on by Friends of Stillpoint, encouraging readers of different backgrounds to seek healing within their own lives.
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