The mission of the Westminster Counseling Center is to integrate the spiritual and psychological idimensions of human experience to promote hope, strength, growth, and inherent self-worth through empirically informed mental health counseling and best practices in health for individuals, couples, and families.
Vision:
The Westminster Counseling Center's vision is to be a place of healing for individuals, couples, and families within the Twin Cities community. The Center is aware of the impact of current and historical injustices and, when present, is equipped to address the associated psychological and moral injuries within the therapeutic framework of moral injury.
Values:
The Westminster Counseling Center values all members of the community regardless of life experience, choice of religious or spiritual beliefs or practices, race, ethnicity, economic circumstances, gender identity, or sexual orientation. The Center has an accessible fee structure based on income and ability to pay to assure equitable distribution of spiritually informed mental health services.
Professional ethics and confidentiality
The Center's counselors conform to accepted psychotherapy standards, ethical codes and Federal and Minnesota state law, all of which protect the privacy and confidentiality of clients. These same standards, codes and laws, require the counselors to report any suspected cases of child neglect or abuse, vulnerable adult abuse, possible harm to others or self-inflicted. All information is treated as highly confidential.
More about us:
Westminster Counseling Center is a private, nonprofit organization staffed by licensed psychotherapists and guided by a Board of Directors. The board includes representatives from Westminster Presbyterian Church and numerous other congregations and organizations throughout the Twin Cities area who have a knowledge, commitment and expertise in the field of counseling, business operations, nonprofit management and development.
The Counseling Center had its beginnings in 1975 as a volunteer-staffed outreach ministry of Westminster Presbyterian Church. It opened its doors as Westminster Counseling Center in October 1987. It was formally established on October 22, 1992 as an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit with its own Articles of Incorporation. The Center continues to receive funding, office space and administrative support from Westminster Presbyterian Church.