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Helping you to cope with life challenges.

Community Grief Support

Our mission is to provide counseling, bereavement support, education, information, and resources to anyone experiencing loss, grief and, death.

All of our services are provided by trained individuals with the primary goal of offering grief support that is sensitive, compassionate, and responsive to the needs of our clients. Our network of facilitators also includes healthcare professionals and peer volunteers.

Since we recognize that everyone copes with transitions in different ways, we provide the following options for support:

• Support groups
• Educational presentations
• Referrals for individual counseling

Grief Counseling & Support Groups

Programs below are held by certified mental health counselors.

Peer-led Support Groups

For more information, please contact the people listed below each group.
Unless otherwise specified, sessions are FREE and held at the Mary & Ralph Wilson, Jr. Support Center.

Healing Touch

Healing Touch is an energy therapy in which practitioners consciously use their hands in a heart-centered and intentional way to support and facilitate physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. Healing Touch is a biofield (magnetic field around the body) therapy that is an energy-based approach to health and healing. Healing Touch uses the gift of touch to influence the human energy system, specifically the energy field that surrounds the body, and the energy centers that control the flow from the energy field to the physical body. It is a safe and non-invasive therapy that complements traditional, standard care.

These non-invasive techniques employ the hands to clear, energize, and balance the human and environmental energy fields, thus affecting physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. It is based on a heart-centered, caring relationship in which the practitioner and client come together energetically to facilitate the client's health and healing.

The goal of Healing Touch is to restore balance and harmonies in the energy system, placing the client in a position to self-heal.

Healing Touch is recognized by National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)

Healing Touch is available for patients, survivors, and their caregivers. A certified Healing Touch volunteer uses a compassionate, heart-centered approach and gently works on, or slightly above, the recipient’s body to restore balance on a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level. Several benefits have been reported including decreased anxiety, pain, and depression, and increased relaxation and a sense of well-being.

Healing Touch takes takes place twice per month. Please call 716-836-6460 to register for one of three 30-minute sessions below. (We request that you check in 15 minutes before your scheduled time.)