Our experience has often been that churches primarily offer weekend services, small groups, and serving opportunities to meet the spiritual and emotional needs of the individuals in their congregation.  We believe that individual care and mentorship does happen, but often there is a lack of training, time, and/or consistency to really advance individual growth and change.  In many cases, the primary option is to refer individuals outside the church to a mental health professional. 

Traditionally, mental health professionals have relied primarily on one-on-one therapy to support an individual’s emotional healing and growth.  Well established research indicates that a social support system is a crucial companion to one-on-one care, but legal and ethical standards for therapists restrict them from participating with or even being in the same community space as their clients.  This can leave clients feeling alone and unsupported in having to find and develop an adequate social support system on their own.

Our team has a wide range of educational and professional backgrounds that bring the best from various fields to help us provide integrated care and development.  We have Master’s and Doctorate level mental health professionals, Spiritual Directors with Master’s degrees in Theology and also Spiritual Formation and Soul Care. We have former pastors, ministry leaders, and business owners.

Our collaborative team and integrated approach allows us to provide the following one-to-one services: traditional therapy, spiritual direction, life coaching, and prayer counseling.  We will help you find the best option for you. 

We believe that in order to give, you have to first receive.  In other words, we can’t help others grow in ways that we haven’t grown ourselves. Our team at The Open Table give a significant amount of weekly time to our own individual care and development. We seek to care for others from a place of mental, emotional, and spiritual fullness.

We are all on our own individual journeys, but we rarely succeed by walking them alone. We invite you to explore the various options we offer for individual care and development.

Our team has a wide range of prior experience, training and education, but our common experience is in developing a healthy and sustainable organizational culture and environment. From workshops to strategy meetings to individual support, we believe in and pursue the value of each member of your team and the health of your organizational culture.