Why Professional Counseling?
Participation in a Shelter from the Storm support group is not a replacement for professional counseling. Most sexual abuse victims experience profound emotional problems. Virtually all sexual abuse survivors could benefit from professional care.
Since sexual abuse is the most personal and damaging form of betrayal, recovery from sexual abuse can be the most intense and emotionally challenging form of recovery. Survivors of sexual abuse often struggle with powerful issues such as shame, thoughts of suicide, addictions, and even dissociation.
For these reasons, it is strongly recommended that participants begin the recovery process with a professional evaluation. Subsequently, they are required to connect with a professional counselor on a weekly basis. This person should be trained in working with survivors of sexual abuse to monitor the participants progress while participating in the sexual abuse recovery group.
For information on how to choose a counselor see the link below:
- Proverbs 20:18 - Plans succeed through good counsel....
- Proverbs 1:5 - A wise man will hear and increase learning, And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel......
- Proverbs 11:14 -Where there is no counsel, the people fall; But in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
- Proverbs 19:20-21 -Listen to counsel and receive instruction, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.
Professional Services
2001 West Plano Parkway, Suite 3800
Plano, TX 75075
972.941.4442
Shepherd's Call Counseling & Teaching Ministry (christian counseling)
Penny McAdams
711 E. Lamar Blvd Suite 105
Arlington, TX 76011
817.459.8488
M. Louise Foster-Wilson, LPC
407N. Cedar Ridge, Ste. 200
Duncanville, TX 75116
972.283.9282
1808 W. Camp Wisdom Rd
Dallas, TX 75232
For more details or questions contact the Counseling Ministry at 214.672.9100 Ext. 2100
Dallas, TX 75235
214.590.2926
24 Hour Hotline: 214.590.0430
(Services are free to Dallas County residents)
Dallas, TX
214.358.5173
(All services are free and confidential)
24 Hour Crisis Hotline
407 North Cedar Ridge Rd. Suite 315
Duncanville, TX 75116
972.709.4904
(All services free and confidential to Dallas County residents)
Richardson, TX 75080
24 Hour Hotline 972.641.RAPE (7273)
(Services are available to anyone impacted by sexual violence. All services are confidential and free of charge. Services are also available in Spanish).
P.O. Box 866754
Plano, TX 75086
972.985.0951
24-Hour Crisis Hotline - 800.886.7273
(Services are free of charge to those impacted by sexual violence).
P. O. Box 640
Denton, TX 76202-0640
24 Hour Crisis Hotline - 940.382.7273 or 800.572.4031
Recommended Resources
24/7 live, secure, anonymous crisis support for victims of sexual assault, their friends and families. Both services are free of charge.
What is abuse? Abuse is mental, emotional, physical or sexual injury to a child or failure to prevent such injury to a child.
Speak Up & Speak Out
24/7 Crisis Hotline 800.656.4673(HOPE)
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