When we open, you or your loved one will be immersed into a "faith-focused" structured approach during your stay. This model is a unique approach where everyone at Our Lady of Good Counsel Center will focus on mental "health" instead of "illness" through an immersion in a monastic type of setting. What to expect:

• Coaching and Mentoring approaches
• Structure and order 
• Meditation according to the long-standing traditional teaching of the Church
• Thomistic Psychology ~ a Catholic type of psychoeducation applying the long-standing principles of St. Thomas Aquinas
• Structured using the Liber Christo Protocol
• Both Individual and Group sessions ~ applying Thomistic Psychology and other Catholic principles
• A Catholic approach and understanding something similar to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Opportunities for recreation, and to develop hobbies and skills
• Meaningful work and vocational education opportunities including on-sight responsibilities such as working together with small animals, gardening, kitchen rotation/chores, housekeeping, etc. 
• Spiritual reading and other forms of spiritual guidance rooted in Catholic Tradition
• Sacramental life through daily Mass and frequent reception of the Sacraments is anticipated to be available
• Understand and integrate virtues into everyday living
• Understanding Nutrition
• Development of personal interests through discovering and defining life-long goals
• If professional providers are needed for individuals, referrals with contracted, licensed mental health professionals as needed

What is Thomistic Psychology

Thomistic Psychology is derived from the principles identified in the writing of Saint Thomas Aquinas in relation to the nature of the human person and the manner in which they were created by Almighty God to function. Thomistic Psychology considers, under the guidance and wisdom of Holy Mother Church, the ontology of the human person as understood through revelation, theology, and philosophy.

As a psychological science, Thomistic Psychology looks to restore the order to the human person and their intellect that is upset by the presence of mental illness. Saint Thomas emphasized the importance of proper use of our faculties through the development of virtue, the use of logic and reasoning, and an orientation to God as our final end and ultimate happiness in order to accomplish this healing of one's mental health.

Thomistic Psychology restores to the science of psychology and field of mental health treatment a true understanding of the human person and their intellect through a proper understanding of their nature, faculties, and acts. This proper understanding provides a potential for both healing and true, lasting mental health for the individual not found in modern psychology.

What Contracted Professionals Could Treat

When we open, we will be structured as a faith-focused and temporary stay, residential mental health center for adults who are not in crisis (not a threat to themselves or others). As needed, OLGC will contract with licensed professionals, who will be qualified to treat the following mental and behavioral health diagnoses for men and women:  

• Anxiety and related disorders 
• Depression and other mood disorders
• Trauma-related
• Obsessive-compulsive, including scrupulosity
• Bipolar 
• Schizophrenia spectrum