Mental Health

Mental health can be a heavy and complex topic. Below are resources available to help you find the support you need close to home.

Weeds In My Garden Series 

Weeds in Our Garden: Overcoming Worry, Anxiety and Fear
Feb 22, 2026  •  Seth Hankee
Weeds In Our Garden: Known, Loved & Accepted
Feb 8, 2026  •  Seth Hankee
Weeds In Our Garden: It's Okay Not To Be Okay
Feb 1, 2026  •  Seth Hankee
Who I am in christ statements

FAQ

How do I know if I need counseling?
Counseling is beneficial for everyone! You don’t need to be considering suicide or clinically depressed to seek help. Counseling gives people a space to have another human sit and listen to them with empathy and compassion. 
What if I can’t afford a therapist?
Please fill out the form at the bottom of the page and someone will be in contact with you about next steps.
Are services confidential?
Therapy services are typically confidential unless you are being harmed by someone, going to harm someone, or going to harm yourself. This will be reviewed with you by your therapist at your first session.

You do not need to be in crisis to seek help.

Therapy and counseling can be helpful for:

  • Anxiety, stress, or persistent worry
  • Depression or ongoing sadness
  • Grief and loss
  • Trauma or difficult past experiences
  • Relationship or family challenges
  • Burnout, exhaustion, or major life transitions
  • Postpartum or parenting-related emotional challenges
  • Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or emotionally drained

Seeking support early can be a wise and healthy step toward wholeness. Professional counseling is a valuable resource for any mental health need, not only emergencies or suicidal thoughts. Many people benefit from therapy as a space to process emotions, develop coping skills, and grow in self understanding. For some, therapy may be short term and focused. For others, it may be part of longer term healing. Both are appropriate and beneficial.
Seeking counseling does not replace faith, it can complement spiritual practices and pastoral care.

National Hotline Resources

Suicide & Mental Health National Crisis Line

988 (call or text 24/7)

CARES Hotline

(800) 345-9049
(child behavioral/crisis hotline in IL 24/7)

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

(800) 273-8255 (24/7)

TTY CARES Hotline

(866) 794-0374

Local Christian Counseling Services

Isaiah 61 Ministries – Waynesboro

Christian counseling focuses on helping people find healing, wholeness, and freedom in Christ from the griefs and traumas in life.

Valley Pastoral Counseling Center

Nonprofit, interfaith, and interdenominational, providing spiritually sensitive psychotherapy for community mental health needs.

Family Life Resource Center – Harrisonburg

Faith-based nonprofit provides counseling for all faiths. Fees are based on a sliding scale, and insurance is accepted.

Greater Hope Ministries – Harrisonburg

Provides faith-based sexuality counseling

Family Preservation Services – Staunton

Tasso Counseling  - Staunton

Restoration Counseling

Celebrate Recovery Group - Cornerstone Church of Augusta

Provides therapeutic, counseling, and coaching services for those impacted by trauma.

Rooted Counseling

Whether you’re just beginning your healing journey or looking to go deeper Rooted is there to help.
Tasso Counseling offers compassionate faith-based counseling in August County and via telehealth.
They have in person and tele-health options and are solidly Bible and Faith Based.
Celebrate Recovery (CR) exists to help people find freedom and healing from their hurts, hang-ups and habits through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Local Mental Health Resources

Mid-Atlantic Recovery Center Shenandoah LLC

Office: 540-221-4912
A community-based mental health and behavioral health center agency that responsibly delivers services for individuals with mental health, substance abuse, and/or behavioral health needs.

Mental Health of American - Augusta

A non-profit, non-governmental, service, education, advocacy, and volunteer organization focused on mental health.

National Alliance on Mental Illness

The largest grassroots mental health organization in the United States. Dedicated to building better lives for Americans affected by mental illness with programs for individuals and families.

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

They create a culture that’s smart about mental health through education and community programs, research and advocacy, and support for those affected by suicide.

Valley Community Services Board

Western States Hospital: Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services

Community-based Behavioral Health, Developmental Disability and Substance Use Services and so much more.
We are committed to developing and providing a continuity of quality care for the citizens of the commonwealth with serious mental or substance abuse disorders within an integrated and collaborative service system, which involves linkage with consumers, families, and community health care providers.

Book Resources

Daring to Fight: When Grit, Grace, & Faith Take Depression Head-On

by Victoria Mininger (a member of our congregation)
In Daring To Fight, Victoria Mininger shares her painful battle with clinical depression and lays out practical steps for how she fought her way from dark days of lying on the couch to re-engaging in life again.

Gentle and Lowly

by Dane C. Ortlund 
In Dane Orlund's bestselling book, Gentle and Lowly, he examines Christ’s love for the “gentle and lowly in heart.” In the Gentle and Lowly Study Guide, you’ll explore scripture passages that speak to who Christ is and his love for people. Each session is this supplemental study features discussion questions covering 2–3 chapters from the book and can be used with along with the book

Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

By: Craig Groeschel  
Break free of destructive patterns of thought---so God can transform your life! Replace self-doubt and negative thinking with joy, peace, truth, prayer, and praise. Groeschel shows you how to take the necessary steps to remove damaging lies, rewire your brain, renew your mind, reframe your vision, revive your soul, and restore a healthy perspective. 256 pages, hardcover from Zondervan.

  The Anxious Generation

By: Jonathan Haidt 
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?
In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. 

Additional Helpful Reads

  • Present Over Perfect — by Shauna Niequist
  • The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry — by John Mark Comer
  • Anxious for Nothing — by Max Lucado
  • Breath as Prayer — by Jennifer Tucker
  • In His Image — by Jen Wilkin
  • Suffering — by Paul David Tripp
  • Waiting Isn’t a Waste — by Mark Vroegop
  • Emotionally Healthy Spirituality — by Peter Scazzero
  • It Didn’t Start with You — by Mark Wolynn
  • The Body Keeps the Score — by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

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