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About Catherine McCollough

Rev. Catherine McCollough is a minister ordained in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. She received graduate degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary, and Rutgers University. She has been a Pastoral Counselor at Blacksburg Counseling Ministries, The Virginia Institute of Pastoral Care, and the Pastoral Counseling and Consultation Centers of Greater Washington, D.C. She served for nine years as the Presbyterian Campus Minister at Radford University, and is also a faculty member for Presbyterian CREDO, a program of the Presbyterian Church USA designed to lead ministers through a journey of discovery and self-care and renewal.

The Brain-Healing Power of a Purposeless Moment

    My brain’s default mode is to wander, aimlessly, luxuriously, into a daydream.  In fact, I think this came up once or twice on an early elementary school report card: “tends to daydream”.  I think I got a check instead of a plus in one of the columns because of that. Someone about that same time called me lazy, [...]

By |May 27th, 2018|Anxiety, Health, Mindfulness|Comments Off on The Brain-Healing Power of a Purposeless Moment

The Gift of Resilience

“But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.  We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed……  II Corinthians 4:7-10 I believe it was the [...]

By |July 10th, 2017|Mental Health, Mindfulness, Spirituality|Comments Off on The Gift of Resilience

The Call to Pastoral Counseling

  I have been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for around 22 years now.  But I have been called into a ministry of counseling for even longer than that, and I call myself a “pastoral counselor”, first and foremost.  There is not a state-recognized license for pastoral counselors where I live and work.  It isn’t a profession that all people [...]

By |August 11th, 2016|Spirituality|Comments Off on The Call to Pastoral Counseling
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