Counseling for Pastors

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How do I get in touch, and what if I am in crisis right now?

You can reach out through the confidential contact form on this site, and a real person or ministry partner will follow up once it is wired. Please note this is not a crisis line. If you are in immediate danger or thinking about suicide, call 911, or call or text the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, available 24 hours a day in the United States.

Reach out confidentially How to find a counselor

If you are in crisis right now, please read this first

Before anything else: this contact page is not a crisis service, and it is not monitored for emergencies. If you or someone you love is in immediate danger, thinking about suicide, or facing an emergency, please do not wait for a reply here. In the United States, call 911 for any immediate emergency, and call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, available 24 hours a day, to reach a trained counselor right away. Your safety matters more than anything on this page, and immediate help is available the moment you reach for it.

For everything that is not an emergency, the rest of this page explains how to get in touch and what we can and cannot do.

How to reach out, and what to expect

If you would like to connect, you can use the confidential contact form on this site to send a brief, private message: who you are, what you are carrying, and how we can help. Until our system is fully wired, the form endpoint is a clearly-marked placeholder, so if it does not yet submit, please understand that the feature is still being connected. We respect your privacy, we do not sell your information, and we treat anything you share as confidential to the extent we are able as an information resource.

What we can do is listen, point you toward confidential, professional, faith-aware care and toward pastoral and peer support, and help you understand your next steps. What we cannot do is provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, a diagnosis, or crisis intervention; we are an information and resource hub, not a counseling provider or crisis line. For actual care, we will help you move toward a licensed professional, and for emergencies, please use 988 or 911.

Next steps

Finding help, when you are ready

This site is an information resource, not a counseling provider or crisis line. Each option below points you toward confidential, professional, faith-aware care. Forms and any directory use a clearly-marked placeholder until the operator wires them to a real system. If you are in immediate danger or thinking about suicide, call 911, or call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

Connect Send a confidential message

Self-hosted confidential contact form. Tell us briefly who you are and how we can help; a real person or ministry partner follows up once wired. Placeholder endpoint until then. This is NOT a crisis line; for emergencies call 911 or call or text 988.

Open the confidential form →
Resource Get the pastor care starter guide

Opt-in for a free pastor-care starter guide. Placeholder endpoint until wired. We do not sell your information.

Open the resource form →

Talk to someone confidentially

This form is a clearly-marked placeholder until Counseling for Pastors's system is wired; it does not yet collect or deliver anything. We respect your confidentiality and do not sell your information. This is general information, not therapy, and it is not a crisis line: if you are in immediate danger or thinking about suicide, call 911, or call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

Get the pastor care starter guide

This form is a clearly-marked placeholder until Counseling for Pastors's system is wired; it does not yet collect or deliver anything. We respect your confidentiality and do not sell your information. This is general information, not therapy, and it is not a crisis line: if you are in immediate danger or thinking about suicide, call 911, or call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is this a crisis line?
No. This contact page is not a crisis service and is not monitored for emergencies. If you are in immediate danger or thinking about suicide, please call 911, or call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, available 24 hours a day in the United States, to reach a trained counselor right away. Your safety comes first, and immediate help is available the moment you reach for it.
What happens when I reach out through the form?
When the contact feature is fully wired, a real person or ministry partner will follow up to listen and help point you toward confidential, professional, faith-aware care and pastoral support. Until then, the form endpoint is a clearly-marked placeholder. We respect your privacy and do not sell your information. We are an information resource, so we connect you to help rather than providing counseling ourselves.
Can you provide counseling or advice over the form?
No. We cannot provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, a diagnosis, or crisis intervention, because we are an information and resource hub, not a counseling provider or crisis line. What we can do is help you understand your next steps and point you toward licensed, faith-aware care and pastoral and peer support. For emergencies, please use 988 or 911.

Keep reading

Counseling for Pastors publishes general information and resources to help pastors, clergy, and ministry spouses understand common struggles and find confidential, professional, faith-aware help. It is not therapy, medical or psychological treatment, crisis care, or a substitute for professional or pastoral counsel, and it does not diagnose. We warmly encourage you to seek qualified professional and pastoral help, and to protect your own confidentiality as you do. If you or someone you love is in immediate danger or thinking about suicide, contact local emergency services by calling 911, or reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988 (a public service available 24 hours a day in the United States). We are not affiliated with any specific church, denomination, ministry, or counseling provider.