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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.
11/19/2025
Our accreditation celebration this week is the Samaritan Counseling Center of Southeast Texas in Port Arthur! In August, they received full accreditation for another four years. The Center is well-networked in their area and boasts strong leadership. Learn more about them at their page linked above.
11/17/2025
Our next Center Director to highlight is David Smith, who has served as the Executive Director of Summit Counseling Center - Atlanta since 2001! Read on to learn more about David and Summit...
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David is an ordained minister, a licensed therapist, and clinical supervisor. His clinical specialties are helping people heal from grief, trauma and loss and working with couples to improve their relationship. During his tenure, The Summit has become a leading provider of mental healthcare in North Atlanta with over 60 employees providing over 23,000 hours of counseling in 7 community-based locations and 36 public and private schools in Fulton, Dekalb, and Gwinnett counties. The Summit works to make counseling affordable for its clients by raising over $1.5M per year to fund its mission and the Client Assistance Fund.
Prior to joining The Summit, David was employed by the former Palmetto Baptist Healthcare System as Director of Community Care and Counseling of Aiken, South Carolina from 1996 through 2000. David has served as a pastoral counselor, psychiatric chaplain, therapist, and clinical supervisor since 1989. He has been married to Vicki Smith since 1986, and they have two sons who live in Nashville—Jonathan (who is married to Jessica) and Daniel.
11/14/2025
We are so proud that The Ecumenical Center's hard, dedicated work in their community has been recognized with this honor!
11/12/2025
Our accreditation shoutout this week is Peninsula Pastoral Counseling Center in Newport News, VA! In August, they received full accreditation for another four years. We celebrate their training tenacity and strong relationship with local universities.
Learn more about their work here:
PPCC is a nonprofit that provides evidence-based counseling and mental health services to all who need it in the Virginia Peninsula area.
11/11/2025
This Friday night, our Member Center in Austin is hosting an event for military families and especially those with kids!
🎖 Stronger Together: An Event for Military Families with Kids Ages 8–15 🎖
Join us for an evening of connection, fun, and family bonding!
📅 Date: November 14, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00–8:00 PM (Check-in & dinner at 5:00 PM)
📍 Location: Patriots’ Hall of Dripping Springs
231 Patriots Hall Blvd, Dripping Springs, TX 78620
This FREE event is open to any veteran or active-duty service member and their family (up to 5 individuals per family). Enjoy dinner together and participate in engaging workshops like:
✨ Webs of Connection: Weaving Our Family Story
✨ Family Zoo: Discovering Our Roles in the Habitat of Home
Event Highlights:
✔ Dinner provided
✔ Comfy clothes or PJs encouraged
✔ Activities designed for families with kids ages 8–15
Registration is required: https://stronger-together-nov14.eventbrite.com
Let’s celebrate the strength of military families—because every pride is stronger when they grow together! 💛
11/11/2025
Our Member Center in San Antonio is hosting this special Veterans event next week on Wednesday the 19th. Join if you can!
Join us for a very special Veterans Celebration, a heartfelt gathering dedicated to honoring the courage, sacrifice, and service of our veterans. This uplifting event brings together our community for a day of inspiration, gratitude, and connection. Enjoy a powerful performance by the ECHS Choir and an inspiring address from our guest speaker as we celebrate the men and women who have bravely served our nation. Let us come together to reflect, show appreciation, and make this day truly meaningful.
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: The Ecumenical Center, 8310 Ewing Halsell Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229
Our next Center Director profile is Christine Feuerbacher, Executive Director of the Samaritan Counseling Center in St. Joseph, Missouri!
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Now in her 5th year of leadership, Christine oversees all of Samaritan's activities and programs. She brings vast non-profit experience from the community working in various clinics as well as the local food bank. Before being promoted to Executive Director, she served as the Director of Development.
11/07/2025
Celebrating another Executive Director announcement this week, at our Member Center in Louisville, Kentucky!
Big things are happening at Kilgore! 🌿 We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Megan Paxton, Ph.D., SHRM-CP as our new Executive Director! A respected leader in behavioral health and organizational strategy, Dr. Paxton brings new energy, innovation, and heart to our mission of providing high-quality, acc...
11/05/2025
We celebrate this news at one of our Member Centers in Iowa! Looking forward to working closely with Amy in the months to come.
🎉 Exciting News at Mind & Spirit Counseling Center!🎉
Please join us in giving a warm and joyful welcome to our new Executive Director, Amy Doyle! 💙
Amy brings a deep passion for mental health advocacy and community care that perfectly aligns with our mission. We couldn’t be more thrilled to have her leading us forward as we continue to nurture hope, healing and connection in our community.
We’re so excited for what the future holds under Amy’s leadership, and we can’t wait for you to get to know her! 🙌
💬 Help us welcome Amy in the comments below!
Read more about her in our latest press release: mindspiritcenter.org/amy-doyle-new-executive-director
11/05/2025
We celebrate another fully accredited center this week: Pastoral Counseling Services (PCS) in Manchester, New Hampshire!
This summer, they received a renewal of their full accreditation from Solihten for the next four years, and we congratulate them on the solid leadership skills displayed by their Executive Director and Clinical Director.
Learn more about their work here:
We are pleased to announce the 2025 Class of Good Samaritans who will be honored on October 9th at the Derryfield Country Club from 5 – 7 pm. Please join us in celebrating these amazing individuals who have given so much to people in our communities!
This workshop will provide professionals with basic knowledge of Islamic beliefs, attitudes and common social norms that often impact willingness to seek help, conceptions of mental health, and attitudes toward treatment options. The goal is to discuss major Islamic worldviews, social norms, and com...
11/03/2025
This week, we want you to get to know another of our Center Directors: Graham Standish!
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Since 2017, Graham Standish has been executive director of Samaritan Counseling, Guidance, Consulting in Pennsylvania, as well as Director of its Caring for Clergy and Congregations program. In this time, Samaritan has grown significantly in all of its services, increasing number of sessions, adding new therapists, coaches, spiritual directors, and more. Through Samaritan’s Caring for Clergy and Congregations program, Graham serves as a spiritual director and coach for pastors, offers workshops on leadership and church transformation, leads small groups, and consults with churches and organizations.
Prior to coming to Samaritan, Graham was senior pastor of Calvin Presbyterian Church in Zelienople, PA for 22 years, where he tripled the size of the congregation and garnered national attention through several studies. Over the past 25 years, Graham has been an internationally known speaker, an adjunct seminary professor, a spiritual director and coach, and also has a background in individual, marital, and family therapy. Graham earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in formative spirituality from Duquesne University, a Master of Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Master of Divinity from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
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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.
