Once Our Lady of Good Counsel Residential Mental Health Center (OLGC) opens, we will provide a unique type of faith-based outpatient and temporary stay residential mental health treatment for adult men and women who are not in crisis - not a threat to themselves or others. OLGC is the first-of-its-kind Catholic residential mental health treatment center for adults and will be the only one in existence in the United States. Being a residential campus makes it possible for adult men and women, living in separate dorms, to be able to come from anywhere in the United States in order to receive comprehensive, compassionate, and professional Catholic mental health treatment.

The need for consistent solid professional treatment is real. OLGC will deliver professional and research-based treatment, applying principles of Thomistic Psychology to assist in the recovery of mental health for adults through this advanced, unique, integrated, and complete mental health treatment model. 

Clients are living their treatment immersed in a Catholic environment similar to a monastic lifestyle, supported by compassionate licensed mental health professionals, and will receive spiritual direction, and live in community.

Extensive assessments will personalize each client’s treatment plan to help provide healing and build hope as the primary goal for the recovery of their mental health. We will seek to guide our clients in gaining or regaining independence, and value their human dignity. 

When we open, you or your loved one can look forward to getting a personalized, structured treatment plan, including:

• We will be implementing:
  • Both individual and group therapy
  • Integrating proven therapeutic interventions, including Thomistic Psychology and the principles of Liber Christo
  • Recreation
  • Meaningful work and vocational education including on-campus responsibilities such as working with small animals, gardening, kitchen rotation/chores, housekeeping, etc. 
  • Community
  • Faithful Catholic spiritual formation through the development of a solid prayer life, and the use of traditional spiritual reading and other forms of spiritual guidance rooted in Catholic Tradition
  • Sacramental life through daily Mass and frequent reception of the Sacraments 
  • Integrate virtues into everyday living
  • Personalized physical training
  • Nutritional assessment and counseling
  • Medication management via a licensed provider
  • Development of personal interests through discovering and defining life-long goals

Receiving treatment in an integrated, residential setting is impactful in forming good and healthy habits, growing in virtue, and increasing the likelihood of restoration of mental health and recovery. 

Opportunities will be available for families to be involved in certain aspects of the treatment, virtually and/or at the center including events in which families will be invited to participate. 

Supporting entities are being developed, in which their profits will be reinvested into the OLGC, also giving opportunities for clients to engage in meaningful work, earn money, develop skills, foster relationships, gain confidence, and build virtue, alongside caring, empathic staff members.

This immersion into a Catholic treatment center is the first-of-its-kind in the U.S. and will be faithful to the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church, with nothing practiced or introduced in treatment that is contrary to the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church. 

If you would like to be put on our waitlist to be contacted once we are open and can start scheduling stays, please complete our contact form.