Helping You Find Success With A Spiritually-Minded Counselor
Feel Like It’s Time to Make a Change in Your Life?
Sometimes life presents problems that your current prayer group or church atmosphere is unable to penetrate – and you know you would benefit from the listening ear of a trained professional who shares your spiritual outlook.
What Is Pastoral Counseling?
A unique form of counseling
Provided by pastoral counselors
Don't have someone to confide in at church?
Confidentiality
How Do I know If Pastoral Counseling is Right For Me?
Pastoral counseling is a unique form of counseling which uses spiritual resources as well as psychological understanding for healing and growth. It is provided by pastoral counselors, who may be mental health professionals but who have also had in-depth religious and/or theological training.
Pastoral counseling moves beyond the support or encouragement a religious community can offer, by providing psychologically sound therapy that weaves in the religious and spiritual dimension.
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Spiritual Direction
Dr. Bednar listens and asks questions to assist the person in their process of reflection and spiritual growth. Spiritual direction develops a deeper relationship with the spiritual aspect of being human. It is not psychotherapy, counseling, or financial planning.
Spiritual Formation
“spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.”
Formational Prayer
Dr. Bednar practices the model taught by Dr. Wardle through Healing Care Ministries.
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My Approach
Dr. Bednar is educated and licensed as both a clinical pastoral counselor and a chemical dependency counselor. Dr. Bednar provides counseling services under the umbrella of Dr. Bednar Counseling, LLC.
However, it is important for you to know that she is currently called to serve under her Doctor of Ministry education as a pastoral counselor. And as such, the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, Marriage and Family Therapists Board does not recognize this calling.
As a pastoral counselor, Dr. Bednar will not be developing a treatment plan, making a diagnosis, nor discussing medication referrals.
Dr. Bednar is not practicing as a clinical counselor and will refer you should those services better serve your needs.

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Fees
Fees are $100.00 per hour for face-to-face meetings.
Virtual fees (Skype or Zoom) are $60.00 per hour and are payable via PayPal prior to the meeting.
Insurance
Dr. Bednar does not accept insurance as payment.