Mental Health does not mean mental illness.

Less than five percent of our clients are considered mentally ill.  Would you consider a child or an adult who is an abuse victim mentally ill?  Hopefully not.  Abuse survivors need assistance and support through counseling to be safe and healthy again.

Would you consider parents whose children are now teenagers and are no longer listening to the parents’ advice, mentally ill?  Again, we would hope not.

Everyday life can be a challenge, with the stressors of economic changes and relational difficulties, often very painfully so.
 
When life's challenges call for change or refocus, growth or healing, Personal Counseling Service (PCS) can be a helpful resource.  The highly trained clinical staff at PCS represents the following mental health disciplines of: marriage & family therapy, social work, pastoral counseling, psychology and psychiatry.  Our interdisciplinary staff is committed to enhancing wellness of body, mind and spirit in individuals, couples, families, groups and the community at large.

Other perspectives in our focus are:

• Coaching - focused on Leadership, Clergy and Transitions
• Clergy Congregation Care Program - specializing on the church as a whole, transitions, crisis, leadership, pastor leadership groups and specific issue consultation
• Robbery Victim's Support - PCS has 20 years of experience working with victims of robbery
• Psychological Testing for Clergy Ordination  
• Clinical Supervision
• We are a training site for the American Association of Pastoral Counselors
• PCS is a practicum site for the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary master’s level marriage & family students
• We are also a practicum site for doctoral students in psychology at Spalding University 

We are community-based

Personal Counseling Service invests in the communities it serves through quality counseling, treatment, prevention, intervention and education.  We offer the following services to seven counties in Southern Indiana:  Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Scott, Washington, Jefferson and Crawford as well as three counties in Kentucky:  Jefferson, Oldham and Bullitt.

Psychiatric services include:

• Psychiatric evaluation
• Medication management
• Education on prescription drug misuse and abuse

Psychological services include:

• Assessments
• Psychological testing

Counseling services include:

• Individual
• Couple
• Marriage & family
• Groups: Parenting, Batterers, Sexual Addiction Recovery, Sexual Abuse Recovery, Grief, etc.

 
Our Community Impact

Considering that $2.6 billion is lost each year to reduced workplace productivity due to depression, anger, and financial stressors, our work toward wellness is critical to the communities we serve.  Our goal is to help people through their difficulties in order to lead more productive, happier and healthier lives.

In 2010, PCS provided service to 2,507 people and we estimated a savings to the community of $1,392,000 due to our clients not being hospitalized or re-hospitalized.

We are grateful to various community entities which help to financially support our work.

Personal Counseling Service, Inc.
A Samaritan Center
1205 Applegate Lane
Clarksville, IN  47129

Telephone

(812) 283-8383

www.pcs-counseling.org

2011 Samaritan Awards Dinner - Winners:  Gary Maloney, NuYale Cleaners; Dan Lowe, Blue River Services; Dr. Rita Shourds, Ivy Tech; The Koetter Group 

To register for our 2012 Samaritan Awards, visit our Events Page.