Pastoral counseling

Pastoral counseling is a branch of counseling in which clergypeople, including ministers, rabbis, priests, and imams, provide psychotherapeutic services and mental health support to practitioners of a given faith. Pastoral counselors often integrate modern psychological theory and methods with traditional religious training in an effort to relieve psychospiritual concerns in addition to the conventional spectrum of counseling services.

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