Samaritan Counseling Center of Austin
The Samaritan Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit counseling center located in Austin, Texas. It is the owner of the various RecognizeGood Programs and the recipient of all contributions and program donations. It shares these donations with many other non-profit community organizations serving youth and their families.
About the Samaritan Center
The Samaritan Counseling Center has been saving lives, healing emotional wounds and giving hope to Central Texas families for over 35 years. They provide affordable counseling to prevent and treat abuse, develop healthy life skills, and strengthen families.
The Center’s scope of services – from early childhood to the elder years – stands as an accessible, affordable safety net for low-income and uninsured families. Clients are children, teens, adults, couples, families, older adults, veterans, and military families that are experiencing significant problems that prevent them from leading healthy and productive lives.
The Samaritan Center strives to serve everyone regardless of the ability to pay. In the last ten years, over $2.5 million in charity care has been provided for individuals and families in Central Texas, about $250,000 each year.
The Samaritan Center is located in Central Austin with satellite locations in Georgetown, Round Rock, San Marcos and East Austin to serve Travis, Williamson, Hays and 12 surrounding counties. The organization is affiliated with the Samaritan Institute in Denver, Colorado as part of an international network of counseling centers serving in more than 500 offices in 35 states and Japan.
Center services are specialized for different population groups and include:
- Women’s Counseling & Resource services are designed specifically for the behavioral health problems that disproportionately affect women more than men such as mood and eating disorders, and physical, sexual and emotional abuse.
- Youth & Family Counseling and Education services include individual, group and family counseling as well as education programs for ages 3-18 and their parents/family on a variety of problems such as physical and sexual abuse, neglect, self-esteem, bi-polar, ADHD, family discord, and substance abuse. The Center offers play therapy, sand tray, and parenting support.
- Adult Counseling & Education services include individual, group, and family counseling as well as workshops. Counseling is provided for grief and loss, anger management, bi-polar and depression, gay and lesbian issues, divorce and separation, substance abuse and addiction, stress, anxiety, relationships, life transition, marriage enrichment, and pre-marriage preparedness.
- Healthy Aging provides home-based counseling for older and/or disabled adults with limited mobility. Services address depression, anxiety, grief, loss, end of life issues, family discord and a host of other problems that prevent our elder population from living mentally and physically healthy lives.
- Disaster Recovery Counseling services are offered in-office, in someone’s home or other non-traditional location for crisis stabilization, trauma debriefing and recovery for disaster survivors.
- HOPE for HEROES is an outreach program to serve military personnel and their families who have unmet mental health needs due to service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Individual, group, and family counseling addresses a wide variety of issues including post traumatic stress, anger management, substance abuse and addiction, relationship discord, family violence, depression, and anxiety.
- Congregation and Clergy Care services provide members of the clergy with individual and group counseling focused on the unique problems of congregational leadership and personal development including conflict resolution and organizational consultation. Services for clergy families are available as well.