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About the Middleton Center

What is our mission?
The mission of the Middleton Center - a specialized ministry of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church - is to help people navigate the turning points of their lives and to live more fully and effectively. Counselors offer professional care with a pastoral concern, integrating the disciplines of psychotherapy with religious beliefs and/or spiritual development.

The Center offers a safe place for individuals of all ages to explore, question, and grow. We seek to help those who wish to discover the full potential that God intends for them both individually and in relationship to spouses, family members, colleagues and friends.


Whom do we serve?

Some people come to the Middleton Center seeking relief from emotional difficulties such as anxiety or depression. Others come to heal broken relationships. Some come simply from a feeling of restlessness, struggling with questions over the next phase of their lives or work. Many have a connection to Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church; others have no church connection. ALL ARE WELCOME and all will find competent, caring professionals to support, guide and empower them.


Fees
Fees are determined by the nature of the requested service. Financial assistance is available for those in need.


What is Pastoral Care?
Pastoral Care is based on certain core beliefs: that all people are valued by God at each end every moment of their lives; that God calls each of us to wholeness and a life of meaning; and that God's grace is available to everyone, counselor and counselee, to facilitate a process of healing and growth.

The Pastoral Care of the Middleton Center is not intended to replace the loving and skilled support offered by the Church's pastoral staff.


What do we offer?
Services are provided in the form of individual, couple, family and group counseling, support groups, seminars, retreats, workshops and lectures.


How do you find out more?
To make an appointment or speak confidentially with someone about how the Middleton Center can help you or a loved one, please call the Center Director, Karen A. Dunkman, at 610-525-0766.


Confidentiality
All communications, conversations and services provided by the Middleton Center will be confidential. No information will be shared with staff, congregation, family, health care professionals or insurance providers without the expressed consent of those receiving services.


Middleton Center Staff

Karen A. Dunkman, MSW, Center Director
Kristyn McKendrick, Administrative Assistant

Counseling

OATS-Outpatient Addiction Treatment Services

Fred Baurer, MD - Selected by Philadelphia Magazine as one of the best doctors in the region for treatment of Substance Addiction.
Linda A. May, MSS, LSW
Sharon Pollak, MSS, LSW

The Council for Relationships
Individuals, Couples, Families, Groups

Judith Leist, MD
Belinda Madison, PhD
Michele M. Marsh, PhD
Judy Rader, MA
Ruthy Keiser, RN, MFT
John Musewicz, JD, MS, LMFT
Rhona Epstein, MED, CAC

John E. Grandbois - Career Counseling

David Reed, PhD - Bereavement Counseling

Education

Family Services of Montgomery County
     Karen Hires, MSS, LCSW

Mediation

Montgomery County Mediation Center
     Winnie Bachlund, MEd, NCC

Parish Care

Lorie Benovic, MA
     Parish Care Manager
Kathy Kreider, RN, BSN
     Parish Nurse

Spiritual Direction

Ellen Stratton, MDiv
     Certified Spiritual Director
Donna Holstein
    Certified Spiritual Director