Psychotherapy
Members of our staff are available to see individuals, couples, families and groups who are experiencing difficulty in certain areas of their lives and who feel the need for professional help.

Spiritual Direction
We understand spiritual direction as the development of a relationship whose primary focus is to facilitate an individual’s journey with God. Professionally trained spiritual directors are available to those who desire this service on a short term or on-going basis.

Internships

Spiritual Direction
From an awareness of the need for qualified spiritual directors, the Claret Center has developed an internship process to fine-tune the abilities of spiritual directors. This nine-month process happens on a one-day per week basis allowing interns to continue ministerial and work responsibilities.

Psychotherapy Practicum
The counseling staff directs an eleven-month internship in psychotherapy. This practicum is designed to help graduate students in psychology develop their therapeutic skills through close supervision in a service-oriented setting.

Workshops
Aware of the need for continuing education, Claret Center staff, sometimes with the help of professional personnel from the Chicago area, offers several workshops and seminars throughout the year.

Retreats
Claret Center has accommodations for persons desiring either directed or private retreats. The spiritual direction staff is available for individually directed retreats throughout the year. Some staff members are willing to lead retreats for individuals and for groups in your choice of setting.

Consultation
Claret Center offers consultation upon request. This service includes group facilitation in such areas as leadership skills, conflict management and effective decision-making skills. Major superiors, councils and parish staffs and other small groups may find this service particularly helpful.

Movement and Dance Therapy
Movement and dance therapy is a body-orientated psychotherapy. The basis is humanistic psychology in which the body, the spirit and the soul of the human being create a unity. MDT works with the very, very old healing-power of dance and movement. MDT offers the chance to learn, to know, to accept and to love one’s own being, to discover behavior patterns from the past and from the present and thus to understand, to order and to integrate the now conscious realizations into one’s daily life. MDT is a way to own the depth of one’s personality in all areas; it facilitates attentiveness and it can help develop self-esteem. When one engages  in MDT one develops the potential for a life of taking responsibility for oneself with deep joy.

Massage Therapy

Massage Therapy helps to alleviate stress and tension from our daily life. It aids in the relief of muscle strains and soreness. It increases the oxygen flow through the body. Overall, Massage Therapy has a therapeutic effect on the body, mind and spirit. It leaves a person feeling refreshed and rejuvenated.