Life Changes

A Life's Journey Counseling Center, PC, located in Chapel Hill, NC, is a counseling center dedicated to helping individuals, couples, and families overcome challenges and achieve a more fulfilling life. Led by Bob Testen, a licensed clinical social worker with extensive experience, the center offers teletherapy services to assist clients during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a family systems approach to treatment and a range of therapeutic techniques, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and dialectical behavior therapy, they provide support for mood disorders, relationship difficulties, dual diagnosis, student life challenges, problem gambling, and more. Established in 2005, A Life's Journey Counseling Center, PC is committed to providing quality psychotherapy and personalized care. Bob Testen, the founder, brings a wealth of experience as a therapist and a consulting clinical coordinator for NCPHP. With a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Social Work from the University of Illinois at Chicago, he is dedicated to helping clients navigate their personal journeys, confront life's challenges, and work towards their goals and ambitions. The center serves individuals aged 15 and older, including licensed professionals, and welcomes clients of all genders and sexual orientations.Generated from the website

Family Service of the Piedmont is one of the largest providers of social services in the United States. A private nonprofit agency, it has been operational for more than 20 years. The agency employs more than 120 people, and serves over 26,000 children and their families. It offers a wide variety of services, such as health care, victim and prevention services, community education, and family and group counseling for children and adults, depression, anxiety, marital problems, behavioral issues, grief and trauma. Located in Greensboro, N.C., the agency's consumer credit counseling service provides free budget, credit and housing counseling for individuals and families with debt and other financial problems. It also offers 24-hour crisis services, housing assistance, behavioral health, employment, foster parent support, parent education, safe-home-for-children, supervised visitation, and therapeutic child center. Additionally, Family Service of the Piedmont provides student assistance programs, assessments, referrals for service, peer and staff training, campus awareness, topical workshops, prevention activities, and integrated cross-community development.

Central Virginia Community Services, since 1969, has been a solid contributor to the behavioral health needs of central Virginia. CVCS provides quality services and promotes the health, independence and self-worth of individuals and families with a continuum of community-based prevention, early intervention, aftercare, and psycho-social rehabilitation services for persons affected by mental health, mental retardation, substance abuse, and co-occurring disorders. The service organization is dedicated to providing community education, early intervention, treatment and aftercare services. All programs at CVCS are certified by CARF, a highly respected healthcare certification body that examines procedures, operations and quality of services. The administrative programs that are accredited include: corporate compliance, quality improvement, human resources, reimbursement services, fiscal services and Information Technology. Programs accredited for adult and family and child and family include: prevention services, access to care and case management services, intensive outpatient services, intensive home-based services, crisis intervention, kindred homes and blueprints therapeutic foster care, family support programs. CVCS has offices and residential facilities in Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford City, Bedford, Campbell counties and Lynchburg, Virginia.