All souls counseling center is a nonprofit organization providing quality mental health

Mental Health , Mental Health Treatment

All souls counseling center (ascc) provides quality mental health counseling to uninsured and underinsured residents of wnc. In fiscal year 2017, we provided 5,343, counseling sessions to 816 clients in our region. Counseling is provided on a sliding scale fee basis based on annual income with no one turned away for inability to pay. Our 20+ licensed therapists provide individual, couple, family, and group therapy at our counseling center near downtown asheville. Issues addressed include but are not limited to: depression, anxiety, trauma/ptsd, addiction recovery, grief and loss, life transitions, post-partum depression, parenting issues, marriage and family relationships, sexual identity or gender identity issues (lgbtq-affirming), stress management, victims of crime, and domestic violence. Bilingual english/spanish counseling is also available. Ascc also places therapists onsite at several community organizations such as green opportunities, a-hope homeless shelter, and the church of the advocate to better serve at-risk populations. In conjunction with our counseling services, ascc's board-certified psychiatrist provides evaluations and prescribes medication as indicated for current clients who are referred by their ascc therapist. In fiscal year 2017, we provided 407 psychiatric sessions to 109 clients. ascc therapists use the global assessment of functioning scale pre and post- treatment to evaluate improvement in behavioral health issues. We also administer a client survey twice yearly to measure client satisfaction with our counseling services. This year, 96% of clients surveyed rated the quality of help they received as "very good. "