Tag: counseling

Good Stewardship: The Stats, The Need & A Chance to DOUBLE your Impact

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“Our time in counseling with you was holistic, balanced, careful, and encompassed our entire family… your willingness to enter our family’s trauma and provide care was an answer to our deepest prayers.” – Client serving in a closed country

Your investment in the health of cross-cultural workers is making a difference!

Investing in holistic member are – through emotional, spiritual and relational support – is both compassionate stewardship and the key to lasting sustainability, helping cross-cultural workers and their families be resilient and effective in ministry. We want every year of preparation and every ounce of sacrifice to lead to lasting impact and healthy, thriving workers fulfilling their calling overseas.

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Summer 2024 Video & Needs

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As many of you know, we’re currently in the fundraising process for our ministry as our team of therapists and staff relocate. Would you take 10 minutes to watch the video below and consider joining us in this incredible work?

WHAT IS IT WE DO EXACTLY?

Hear from us – and from an international church pastor who’s worked in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Turkey about the impact our counseling ministry is having – and learn more about our need here.

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Hard Decisions in Hard Places

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Israel, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Afghanistan, Iran, Ukraine, Russia… you’ve heard these countries a lot in the news. What you may not hear are the unique challenges many cross-cultural workers in those countries are facing. Questions abound. Should they pull out? When will it be too late to leave? Should they stay and help their friends? At what cost? Is staying too much for them? For their spouse? For their children? Where do they go next? How can they even begin to deal with their personal struggles when they seem absolutely dwarfed by the mass of needs all around them?

These are just some of the reasons we have a counseling center in this part of the world. When traumas like this happen or the fear and uncertainty take a long-term toll on someone’s mental health, they need an easy-to-access place for care. Nick and our team of counselors work hard to provide life-giving counseling in each of these situations and plenty more.

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Christmas Giveaway

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This Christmas season, our team has put together 6 lovely gift baskets full of self-care items to foster gratefulness and connection. These would make terrific Christmas gifts, or be something to enjoy yourself throughout the winter and year to come.

Make a year-end donation of any amount to Safe Haven Travelers by December 9 and you might be selected to receive one of these six baskets!

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When Natural Disasters Strike…

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On February 6, a 7.8 earthquake struck southern Turkey and northern Syria, quickly followed by a 7.7 earthquake later that same day. In the following days, countless volunteers and workers from around Türkiye and the world would learn of the devastation and try to reach out to help. The death toll currently sits at over 56,000, but will likely continue to increase. Our staff psychologist describes these first weeks as the “heroic” stage of disaster response, a time when many people pushing themselves to their utter limits to try and rescue whoever they can. But as we all recognize, we can’t live in these states forever and relief workers often find themselves feeling disillusioned and hopeless in the months following days. 

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Beyond Counseling…

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I recently came across an article talking about how our closest relationships can suffer during times of intense stress. And let’s be honest, life can be stressful! For those who have moved overseas, there’s a season of intense change, culture shock, language barriers, etc. As everything feels more difficult, we may find ourselves turning away from or even against the most important people in our lives. If you recognize something of yourself in this description, consider the questions in this article as potential conversations starters with the people you’re closest to.
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God is a Good Father

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Nick, LMHC originally wrote this for the counseling center

The book of Jeremiah presents to us the voice of a grieving prophet having lived through a transition from the relatively stable nation of Israel under King Josiah through its utter destruction. We can hear the echoes of the despairing and bereft within his text, but he also provides us with a voice that we so often need in life: the voice of a good parent.

Jeremiah 30-31, the so-called Book of Consolation, speaks to an alienated people, living out the insecurity of a refugee life, hopes lost in foreign lands and weighed down under the rule of foreign gods. How could people whose home has been taken away find home again? Baruch writes of a divine command to the people that they call out to the Lord and follows it up immediately with God’s response:

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Collaboration in Counseling

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Nick works with a lot of families and couples living all over the world. Here, he gets the privilege of collaborating with a team of therapists to provide better care for entire families.


Here’s a few examples of the types of issues the counselors address:

  • A child with a new mental health diagnosis may lead to our helping the family learn and practice new way of working together both for the well-being of the child and the rest of the family
  • A traumatic event (e.g. a political coup or a scary evacuation) may lead to children and parents learning how to process and make sense of what they’ve experienced
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