The Counseling Center
The Counseling Center is a private, non-profit agency dedicated to making compassionate, high-quality mental healthcare accessible to community members in need. The Counseling Center is a private, non-profit counseling center which provides a full range of psychotherapeutic services to the people of the greater Bucks County area. It was established in the spring of 1978 as the Human Growth Center by members of what was to become United Christian Church in Levittown, PA. Located in Holland, Bucks County, PA, it is led by a community-based volunteer board of directors and an interdisciplinary staff of mental health clinicians The Counseling Center offers its professional services on a sliding scale/ability-to-pay fee basis. At The Counseling Center, we see our clients not simply as patients, but rather as persons of intrinsic value; human beings involved in an experience of growth toward self-actualization
OUR CLIENTS
We assist individuals, couples, and families with a variety of challenges for which they seek support, including:
- Anxiety disorders
- Depression and mood disorders
- Stress management
- Life transitions and adjustments
- Grief and bereavement
- Separation and divorce
- LGTBQ+ issues
- Addiction
OUR PROCESS
If you are in need of mental health support, please call our center at 215-322-2586. Our Associate Director, Ruth Hartman, will speak with you to assess your needs and recommend which of our counselors is a good potential fit. We offer in-person sessions at our office at 82 Buck Road, Holland, PA 18966 or via telehealth, based on client preference. We offer our services on a sliding-scale, ability to pay fee basis and your fee will be established at the time of your call. We accept cash, check, or credit cards.
History
From its beginnings as the Human Growth Center in 1978, The Counseling Center has been committed to providing needed psychotherapeutic services to the Greater Bucks County community. Now with both the need and the demand for these services greater than ever before, The Counseling Center’s work and programming have been made even more relevant today.
In the spring of 1978, a group of people came together to discuss the establishment of a private, nonprofit counseling center that could provide excellent psychotherapeutic services to the many people in the greater Bucks County area whose mental health needs were simply not being met. Many private practitioners’ fees had become prohibitive, and the county-supported base service units were dramatically overrun.
Beyond their insight into the need for such a center, this group of people also began to look at the whole field of counseling and psychotherapy and began seriously to consider what a truly excellent counseling center would be like.
They became committed to the possibility of a counseling center that would offer professional services to people on a sliding scale ability-to-pay fee basis. They envisioned a counseling center that would not be limited to a single theoretical model for psychotherapy, but rather one that would intentionally seek to create an atmosphere of continual dialogue among professionals who would represent a variety of theoretical orientations. Most importantly, they dedicated themselves to the creation of a counseling center in which people would be seen not simply as patients or clients, but rather as persons of intrinsic value; human beings involved in an experience of growth toward self-actualization.
As a result of this kind of visionary thinking and a deep sense of commitment to what is possible for people of caring and dedication, The Human Growth Center (now The Counseling Center) came into being, completing its first full year of service in 1979.
In the nearly half a century that has followed, The Counseling Center has continued to provide a full range of psychotherapeutic, educational, and consultative services to thousands of persons. And The Counseling Center has become the standard for what a private nonprofit mental health agency can and appropriately ought to be.
The Board of Directors
- Leslie Morgan, Executive Director
- Wm. Lance Roberds, Executive Director Emeritus
- Linda McGowan, Treasurer
- Elaine Cawley, Director
- Randolph Hodgens, Vice President
- Jay B. Smith, President
- Kelly Linden, Director
- Sharon Blimm, Director
- Linda Manzo, Director
- MaryAnn Yaich, Office Manager