{"id":294,"date":"2018-03-01T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2025-03-14T21:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:50:27","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-707\" src=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/samaritan-cherry-blossoms-web-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/samaritan-cherry-blossoms-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/samaritan-cherry-blossoms-web-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/samaritan-cherry-blossoms-web-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/samaritan-cherry-blossoms-web.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Our Mission<\/h2>\n<p>Seeking to express God&#8217;s love and compassion, Samaritan Center of Puget Sound offers hope for wholeness to individuals, couples, families, groups and congregations through affordable professional services including counseling, consultation, education, and training.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Commitment<br \/>\n<\/strong>We dedicate ourselves each day to make this a more peaceful, just and compassionate world &#8211; one intentional, healing encounter at a time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Values<\/strong><br \/>\nFor more than 60 years, Samaritan Center of Puget Sound has been a regional leader in providing mental health services. We have built a reputation on depth of experience, ongoing professional training, and a commitment to affordable, accessible care. Our clinicians are at the forefront of the field, with a focus on counseling that is relational, welcoming, and spiritually grounded.<\/p>\n<p>With a clinical staff of approximately 25 counselors, we serve a wide range of ages \u2014 couples and families as well as individuals. Our therapists see hundreds of clients a week throughout the State of Washington, both in-person and remotely, many at reduced fees. Beyond counseling, we offer psychological testing and assessment, continuing education and training for working therapists, and workshops for the general public.<\/p>\n<p>We are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Holistic<br \/>\nWe believe healing takes place on many levels &#8211; mental, emotional, physical and spiritual &#8211; and in many ways &#8211; individually, relationally and in communities.<\/li>\n<li>Faith-Respecting<br \/>\nWe are an ecumenical Christian community that respects the beliefs of all people.<\/li>\n<li>Responsive<br \/>\nWe search for ways to care for those among us who are in financial need, making our services affordable and accessible.<\/li>\n<li>Accountable<br \/>\nWe are committed to excellence in all that we do, and we are faithful stewards of the resources given to us.<\/li>\n<li>Authentic<br \/>\nWe strive to be honest, self-aware and transparent in our work with others and in our community life.<\/li>\n<li>Inclusive<br \/>\nWe recognize that each person is created in the image of God and that we need one another\u2019s diversity. We welcome all people in a spirit of compassion and justice.<\/li>\n<li>Forward-looking<br \/>\nWe are innovative, attentive to life\u2019s opportunities and grounded in faith &#8211; ready to meet the challenges of this mission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Mission Seeking to express God&#8217;s love and compassion, Samaritan Center of Puget Sound offers hope for wholeness to individuals, couples, families, groups and congregations through affordable professional services including counseling, consultation, education, and training. 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