West Texas Counseling's outreach spreads - San Angelo Standard-Times
Aside from a gleaming sign emblazoned with a new name, little about the facade at 242 N. Magdalen St. has changed in the decades the building has served as a counseling center for adults and children. The work accomplished inside the structure, now the headquarters for West Texas Counseling & Guidance, formerly Samaritan Counseling Center, is a different matter.
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The center has seven full-time therapists, including cancer survivor Tristi Patterson, who has a contract with the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health to offer four free counseling sessions to women diagnosed as having breast cancer. The center also has a contract with MHMR to provide counseling for its patients suffering from depression; sexual-assault victims who seek help at the Concho Valley Rape Crisis Center; and individuals the Children's Advocacy Center helps, McCoy said.
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