Counseling

While chaplains and spiritual directors can listen, pray with you, ask good questions, and direct you to other resources, in difficult times it often helps to talk with someone who is trained in looking at deeper issues of personal identity, family systems, or health-related stressors. Here are some good resources:

            >  Counselors, Health Educators, and other professionals at MIT:
            web.mit.edu/medical/student/resources/index.html

            >  Support for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Questioning                          students:
                 http://web.mit.edu/lbgt

            >  Pastoral Counseling: At times, having the guidance of someone who is                       both a trained therapist and a Christian can be very helpful. Two
                excellent resources near MIT are:

                         Trinity Church’s Pastoral Counseling Center                                                                    http://www.trinitychurchboston.org/justice/counseling.php

                        Boston University’s Danielsen Institute Clinic
                        http://www.bu.edu/danielsen