Our Services

We offer counseling for individuals, couples, and families with a Christian lens in view. Whether you need focused help for a marriage, support through a life transition, or a safe place to address personal struggles, we work with you toward healing, clarity, and hope.

 

John and Janet Raymond, licensed professional counselors, can meet with you separately or together, in person or by telehealth.

 

Marriage Intensive

We offer weekend marriage intensives for couples who want focused time to work on their relationship with licensed counselors.

 

An intensive creates space to address issues that have been hard to reach in shorter sessions. It is not a replacement for ongoing counseling. Instead, it often serves as a concentrated start—helping couples clarify goals, gain momentum, and decide next steps. Ongoing counseling can then reinforce the work begun during the weekend

 

Each intensive is shaped around what you need. Before you arrive, we send questions that help you clarify your objectives and help us prepare.

 

Marriage / Relationship Counseling

Couples seek marriage or premarital counseling for many reasons. For some, it is a last resort in trying to save a relationship. For others, it is an ongoing process of discovery, deeper connection, and growth.

As both a married couple and counselors, we bring a unique perspective to this work. With knowledge of relationships and therapeutic approaches—and with dependence on the Holy Spirit—we join you in pursuing the changes you desire.

Premarital counseling: We are SYMBIS-certified facilitators and offer structured premarital work to help couples build a strong foundation.

 

INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING

 

People come to counseling for many reasons. Some seek help with concerns such as depression, anxiety, trauma-related distress, or other mental-health struggles. Others want support with life challenges, spiritual growth, personal goals, or simply a regular place to reflect and grow. 

Phase of Life Changes

We help individuals and couples navigate life changes such as:

  • Starting college
  • Getting married
  • Beginning a new job or career
  • Having childrem
  • Moving into the second half of life.
  • Other significant shifts in family and purpose

Each season brings its own challenges and opportunities. Being in our 60s, we have lived through many of these phases. That experience helps us come alongside you as you explore, grieve, plan, and step into what is next.

 

FAMILY COUNSELING

When we work with families, we pay attention to generational patterns and how each person contributes to the family’s functioning—for better or for worse.

Working from a Family Systems framework, we help families reduce cut-off and fusion while increasing engagement. Learning how to tolerate the anxiety within relationships while engaging can be a challenging task and one that is vital in the healthy functioning of a family system.

When the concern centers on a child, we focus especially on supporting the parent or parents. Parental involvement is essential to a child’s growth and is a key part of the counseling process.

 

SEXUAL INTEGRITY

  • Many people seek help with sexual struggles—pornography, affairs, unwanted fantasies, or low desire.

  • Culture sends conflicting messages about sex, and it can be difficult to live in line with your own deepest values and faith. We offer a confidential, respectful place to explore these issues.

  • Together we look at beliefs, patterns, and the impact of environment, and we work toward greater integrity, healing, and healthier relationships.

  • This work is for both men and women.

  • Our aim is not merely behavior management, but congruence—living more fully in line with the values and hope that matter most to you, including the heart-level integrity Jesus pointed to in Matthew 5.

     

Coaching/Mentoring/spiritual Direction 

We live with two horizons in view: the life we are living now, and the life still ahead.

The journey between them can be difficult.

Coaching, mentoring, and Biblical counseling are for people who want guidance and growth but are not primarily seeking clinical mental-health treatment.

John and Janet offer coaching and mentoring related to premarital and marriage concerns, life and career direction, and sexual integrity. John also offers spiritual direction.

These services are provided through a separate practice:

 

South Wind Coaching

So Why John and Janet?

 

Research shows that a large part of progress in counseling comes from the quality of the relationship between client and counselor.

Training and experience also matter. John and Janet bring nearly 60 years of combined experience and training in a range of therapeutic approaches. They integrate these clinical skills with a Christian worldview of redemption—the biblical story of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration.

This perspective offers a framework of hope, meaning, and whole-person healing as you work through life’s challenges

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A Note on Fit and Results

As with any counseling, results cannot be guaranteed. Transparency matters to us. Although we have the education and experience, we may not always be the right fit..

If you see anything on our site that may insinuate any claim for guarantied results, please bring it to our attention. Thank you

Insurance and Practical Notes

Licensed counseling.
People generally seek help from a licensed counselor to treat diagnosable issues such as depression or anxiety or personality issues. We’ll call this – “clinical”.
People also seek licensed counselors to help with challenges in life such as weight loss, spiritual growth, and accomplishing other personal or career goals. We’ll call this – “non-clinical”.

Clinical
Clinical can be viewed as getting back to a previous level of functioning or maintaining a desired level of functioning.

Sometimes we reach a point in our lives where old coping mechanisms don’t work as well as they did. Or we realize they really didn’t work. We become distressed.

There are many causes of personal distress, such as attachment to others and family systems. While others could be nutritional, substance abuse, and or sleep issues, to name a few.

Non-Clinical – LPSs can assist with non-clinical needs such as regular “check-ups” or general life challenges.  

Mentoring and Coaching

See below for a link to our Mentoring/Coaching information. 

    Insurance
    LPCs fulfil many Insurance company’s licensing requirements for reimbursement. While we are not in-network providers, you may be able to use your out-of-network benefits for counseling. Contacting your insurance provider can give you the details related to your plan. Generally, insurance companies only reimburse for the treatment of diagnosible conditions (clinical) such as anxiety or depression; however, some do reimburse for relationship counseling.

    Since we are licensed professional counselors, you can use most HSA funds for our services.

    Here is an explanation of insurance laws.

     

     

    Contact and Location

    Janet - (540) 723-5568
    John - (540) 723-5567

     

     

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