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Solihten Institute is a nonprofit national mental health institute with a mission to inspire, educate, connect, and equip professionals who integrate mind, body, spirit, and community in their approach to caring for the wellbeing of others.
12/22/2025
Get to know another of our Center Directors this week!
Doug Thorpe is Executive Director of VIPCare (Virginia Institute of Pastoral Care), a position he has held since 2014. He is licensed as a professional counselor in Virginia and the District of Columbia and certified as a Gottman Method Couple’s Therapist. Doug has been ordained in the Evangelical Covenant Church since 1986. He served a church in Chicago before returning to Princeton Theological Seminary for a PhD in pastoral theology and training as a therapist. He was certified as a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors in 2008, and served AAPC as its president from 2010 to 2012.
When Doug is not seeing clients or directing VIPCare, he can usually be found on his bicycle, searching for a quiet country road with good blacktop or stalking flower gardens with his camera.
12/19/2025
Mark your calendar for this CE opportunity in February!
Your gift today helps ensure therapy remains life-giving—for clients and for the professionals who serve them. Thank you for standing with us in this work. Together, we can create a future where mental health care honors the whole person—mind, body, and spirit.
Ensora Health's Future of Therapy report surveyed 1,300+ therapists about AI, burnout, access to care, and more. The findings are available for free to download at this link:
What 1,300+ therapists predict about the future of therapy. Discover how AI, burnout, access barriers, and whole-person care will reshape mental healthcare over the next five years.
12/15/2025
Our profiles of our Center Directors continues with Kristin Fox-Trautman, who became the Executive Director of Samaritan Counseling Centers of the Mid-South in November 2023.
Before coming to Samaritan, Kristin gained 27 years of experience in nonprofit management and leadership, serving in prior positions such as Director of Congregational Relations for the Metropolitan Interfaith Association, Director of Operations & Grants for Playback Memphis and the Vice President for Youth Development and the Senior Advisor to the President of BRIDGES, before launching her own freelance nonprofit consulting firm in 2014 and a small local mission-driven business, Inspire Community Café, in 2018.
Kristin received her B.A. from Rhodes College in 1998, her M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Memphis in 2004, and her Master of Social Work degree from Louisiana State University in 2025. In her free time, Kristin loves to travel with her family, read, go on long walks, swim, and have cross-cultural experiences.
12/12/2025
We’re embarking on a movement that puts spirit back at the center of mental health care—and we want you to hear why this matters, directly from us.
In this short video, our President & CEO Dan Stephens shares the heart behind this movement and what it means for the future of care. After you watch, we invite you to join us in making this vision real.
Your gift today helps ensure therapy remains life-giving—for clients and for the professionals who serve them.
An end of year message from Dan Stephens, Solihten Institute President & CEO
12/08/2025
Get to know another of our Center Directors this week...
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Dr. Mohamed Abdullahi, Executive Director and co-founder of the Community Caring Clinic and Founder and Dean of Curriculum for Bayan Institute.
Born in Somalia, he and his family immigrated to Qatar after the civil war in Somalia then to the US. Dr. Abdullahi received his Doctor of Pharmacy from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in May 2016. His core professional competencies include small business development, management, operations, strategy, communication, and adaptive leadership.
Dr. Abdullahi serves the Muslim Community in greater Boston area as a teacher, scholar of Quranic Studies and Arabic Language. He also serves as a spiritual guide and mentor for many youth and their family members in Roxbury area. His passion for integrating body, mind, and spirituality into the world of behavioral health and addressing the issues of social justice and health disparities within the low-income and immigrant communities inspired him to co-found Community Caring Clinic.
12/05/2025
🎉Save the date!!🎉
The PCS Music Therapy Department is excited to announce the date of our Annual Client Showcase - this year including time for a special 10 year celebration of the Music Therapy Department after the program!
12/02/2025
On and everyday, we're thankful for Doug Drake's leadership on our Board! Read on for some of Doug's words on what motivates him to support Solihten...
"Today is Giving Tuesday, and I want to share why I’m proud to support Solihten Institute and why I’m asking you to join me.
Mental health is the foundation of overall well-being. Solihten Institute plays a vital role in advancing mental health nationally by equipping Centers with the leadership, research, and tools they need to serve their communities. Their work is visionary, compassionate, and fiscally responsible — and it’s making a real difference.
I gave because I believe deeply in Solihten’s mission — not just in theory, but in practice. As a Center CEO, I benefit from the strength of this network every day. The Institute equips leaders like me with the tools, research, and support we need to serve our communities with excellence and grace.
And right now, your gift can go even further. Every dollar donated will be matched four to one, which means your $20 becomes $100 and directly fuels access to care, hope, and healing across the country.
Your gift today could be the spark that inspires others to give — and helps us unlock $100,000 in matching funds before December 31.
Will you take this moment to act?
Together, we can strengthen mental health care across the country, ensuring that no one faces their challenges alone."
Today, we want to introduce you to another stellar Center Director!
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Dr. Gina Pasquale is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist whose work bridges the earliest moments of human development and the later stages of life. With specialties in Infant, Child, and Adolescent Mental Health and in Geropsychology, she focuses on what she often calls the “bookends of life”: helping individuals and families navigate growth, transition, and meaning across the lifespan.
Dr. Pasquale has been part of Maps Counseling Services for more than 15 years, contributing to the evolution of an organization that has been a trusted resource in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire for over five decades. Her leadership is rooted in a deep commitment to whole-person care, where emotional health, relational connection, and spiritual wellbeing are understood as inseparable. A central thread throughout her work is the integration of spirituality into psychotherapy and leadership, as an invitation to connect with meaning, values, and inner resources. As an affiliate faculty member in the Clinical Psychology Department at Antioch University New England, where she earned her master’s and doctoral degrees, Dr. Pasquale mentors the next generation of psychologists with an emphasis on reflective practice, relational sensitivity, and ethically grounded care.
11/26/2025
We are grateful for our Member Centers and the dedicated work of caring for others that they do each and every day!
11/25/2025
For our next Center Director profile, we go to Bartlesville, Oklahoma :
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Ben Ames serves as the Executive Director of Samaritan Counseling & Growth Center, Inc., bringing more than 20 years of nonprofit leadership experience to the role. He guides the center’s mission to expand access to compassionate, culturally informed, and spiritually integrated mental health care across the region. Since joining Samaritan, he has helped strengthen community partnerships, advanced outreach and education initiatives, and supported program growth in key areas such as subsidized counseling, play therapy, and men’s mental well-being.
Ben holds a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership from Northeastern State University and has a strong background in community engagement, trauma-informed services, and organizational development. His approach blends strategic clarity with a people-centered mindset, ensuring Samaritan’s work remains grounded in compassion and collaboration.
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Solihten Institute is an interfaith counseling network comprised of over 50 centers in more than 300 locations that provide 600,000+ clinical hours every year.
We recruit, accredit, connect, educate, and advance counseling centers that practice one of the most effective paths to healing: spiritually integrated therapy.
Prior to 2019, we operated as Samaritan Institute, which was formed in 1972 when a physician joined together with two parish ministers and a seminar professor in Elkhart, Indiana. Together, they formed a counseling resource that integrates what people believe into how they heal.
For nearly half a century, this community of clergy, mental health professionals, and physicians has grown to serve a national collective of member centers who share a commitment to nurturing mind, body, spirit, and community.
Under the name Solihten (soh-LITE-en, wholeness + light), we will continue to grow the Institute well into the future while extending a spiritually inclusive message to counselors and clients across the nation.
Mission
Help affiliated Centers provide team-oriented, cost-efficient counseling, education, and consultation which emphasize the interrelatedness of mind, body, spirit, and community.
Accreditation
While each Center designs services and programs to meet the needs of its communities, all Solihten Centers are expected to achieve full accreditation to maintain sound organizational structures, efficient management and administration, high-quality clinical processes, appropriate personnel and financial practices, and professional accountability.
Collective Impact
Together with our Centers, Solihten Institute’s reach and depth of expertise dramatically influences:
• Appeals to managed care companies.
• Congregations considering Center development.
• Counseling Centers seeking a larger relationship.
• Referral sources moving to a new community.
• Denominations seeking linkage to pastoral care and counseling.
• New partners in healthcare organizations seeking non-profit behavioral health provider networks with a proven track record to fulfill the mandate of healthcare reform and more fully develop provision of primary care and behavioral health integrated care.
As a partnership, we impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who seek to feel whole.
