Growth in every season
About
Thrive Counseling Services is a ministry of Ephrata Community Church that offers professional counseling to the local community and churches.
Our mission is for you to thrive in every season of life - mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
Our team
Director
Licensed Professional Counselor
Certified EMDR Therapist
Lauren Patches Keller, LPC
A majority of my experience is with families and individuals. I was trained as a Functional Family Therapist, working with high conflict and high risk adolescents and their families. I have also loved working in an outpatient setting with individuals of all ages and struggles. I take a strength based approach, using empathy, compassion, truth, and nonjudgment to create a safe environment for my clients to heal, change, and grow.
I am also a grief and loss counselor, an EMDR therapist, and have experience treating trauma, depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders.
Assistant Director
Pre-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Certified EMDR Therapist
Mike Wenger, MAMFT
My goal as a therapist is to provide a non-judgemental atmosphere filled with hope and empathy. I use a systemic approach and evidence-based theories to help assess and treat negative cycles and symptoms. In therapy, my focus is to help individuals, couples, and families meet their goals for treatment by encouraging a positive outlook and sense of self, healthy dialogue, expression of emotions, secure attachment, and loving connection. While the journey of therapy may seem daunting, I will always try my best to help each client feel safe, seen, and heard.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Klein, MAMFT
I am passionate about walking with people to heal from life’s hurts, and assisting them to learn how to walk in health and wholeness. Acquiring practical tools and learning new ways to view and grapple with life can be challenging. You are not alone on this journey. Together, we will discover the best path for you using a holistic approach to care for your needs. I am trained in family systems and utilize evidence-based theories with families, couples, and individuals.
Pre-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Jacey Cross, MA
Jacey’s clinical experience comprises working with family systems and individuals (children, teens, and adults) in the areas of adjustment to major and minor life transitions, single-event trauma, complex trauma, grief/loss, depression, anxiety, and emotional/psychological abuse recovery. Jacey believes in the power of healing (physically, emotionally, and spiritually) and, therefore, takes a holistic approach to customizing treatment to meet the unique needs of her clients. She considers it an honor to come alongside her clients and support them on their healing journey. Jacey uses modalities such as (TF-CBT, CPT, DBT, and ESFT) along with therapeutic play, therapeutic art activities, breathwork, mindfulness, and movement to promote change, growth, and connection to self, others, and God.
Pre-licensed Professional Counselor
Gillian Glackin, LMFT
As a committed life-long learner, I find my curiosity satisfied through the therapy field. Sitting with people working to make sense of their stories has invited me to reflect on what it means to truly live and heal. Working with individuals and couples provides me with a rich understanding of systems and people's pursuit of wholeness. Therapeutically, I engage with an eclectic approach, often pulling from a blend of IFS, Narrative, and systems theory with a nod toward CBT concepts. I desire to continue to create and cultivate environments that promote healing and encourage the curious.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist