Confidential Outpatient Counseling
Life can be complicated and when difficulties and problems affect your ability to manage from day to day, professional counseling can make a difference. At Life Guidance Services we offer confidential care for individuals and families who are struggling with personal and family problems. We offer a wide range of areas concerns including depression and anxiety, aging, substance abuse, parenting issues, divorce, relationship problems, blended families, parent-child communication, difficulties related to physical, sexual or emotional abuse, personal identity and life stage issues, sexual identity and alternative lifestyles. Our clinicians are highly skilled, experienced professionals holding advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, counseling and social work and have an average of 27 years of counseling experience. At Life Guidance, you can expect:
- Treatment therapies with proven results
- Treatment with respect, dignity and concern
- Providing competent, compassionate therapeutic services
- Assistance in tackling problems with a better sense of vision, inspiration and strength
- A personalized and person-centered approach
A simple and confidential call to our office is all that is required to make an appointment. Counselors can be requested by name or we can make recommendations based on particular needs. Day and evening appointments are available. We will assist in determining insurance and payment options. All appointments are confidential.
We accept payment from Priority Health, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Blue Choice, Blue Care Network, PPOM, Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Network of West Michigan and many others and offer a sliding fee scale based on ability to pay. Please download our brochure or contact us for more information.
Community Counseling and Personal Growth Ministry’s mission continues in the Heartside Neighborhood
Each Monday, Martin Rini starts his day at Heartside Ministries on South Division in Grand Rapids. “Marty”, as he is often known, is there to provide Heartside Neighbors with counseling services on a walk-in basis. A clinician since 1972, Marty is a certified social worker and therapist with Life Guidance Services, a division of Proaction Behavioral Health Alliance. Thanks to the generosity of donors to the Community Counseling and Heartside Ministry Heartside Fund, Life Guidance is able to donate Marty’s services to Heartside Ministries each Monday. Marty is clearly passionate about his work.
“It is an honor and privilege to counsel at Heartside Ministry. I have the opportunity to serve some of the poorest of the poor in the Division Street community, “neighbors” wanting in the basic necessities of life but not wanting in faith or hope or love. I have served persons plagued with chemical dependency and/or mental illness but not stricken in spirit. I have met very talented persons—intelligent, educated, gifted, and musical—having little but sharing much. This ministry has made me more aware of the resources already available in Grand Rapids—especially the resources of dedicated staff and volunteers, who share not only their gifts but also their compassion. In return for what I have received, I feel that I have given very little in return—a few moments of my time, a willingness to listen to someone else, a concern for their hurt and their pain, an opportunity to pray with them, or simply to share a cup of hot coffee.”
Life Guidance Services remains committed to this very important mission. This donor-supported work is truly making a difference in the life of Heartside Neighbors and others who have benefited from the spiritually sensitive counseling that exemplifies the Community Counseling and Personal Growth Ministry’s mission. Our clinicians continue to facilitate the healing and growth of people through counseling, education, training, and consultation. We highly value a warm, confidential setting in which strong feelings can be expressed, spiritual issues explored, and life troubling problems resolved. We provide these services in a spirituality sensitive, clinically competent, affordable way to children, adolescents and adults.