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Recently, Instagram influencer Ashley Puig created a story about Walk-In, featuring Jessica Simpson, our Director of Clinical Supervision. View it here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DekL8bKCDkB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&dlrf=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==&srtk=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
For much of the last century, grief advice pointed toward letting go: work through the stages, detach, and move on. In 1996, the researchers Dennis Klass, Phyllis Silverman and Steven Nickman challenged that idea in Continuing Bonds. They argued that the bonds people keep with those they’ve lost are not denial, and that they can…
Join us on Tuesday, Nov. 17 from 2-4 pm on Zoom for a training on counseling couples and families. Two CEUs are available free for all current, former and future Walk-In volunteers; all others are asked to pay what they can. To register, click here. The trainer is Jessica Simpson, PhD, LMFT, Walk-In’s Director of…
Walk-In has been providing free, no-appointment, anonymous mental health counseling since 1969 to everyone who comes to us. Last year, we served 1,500 people in 3,700 free counseling sessions. The reason we are still here is our community of volunteers and supporters. Early giving has already begun in the lead-up to Give to the Max…
Erin P. volunteered as a counselor at Walk-In while deciding whether to become full-time therapist. As a clinical social worker, she was qualified as a therapist but had been working instead as a hospital social worker. “A colleague of mine at the hospital, also a clinical social worker, was volunteering at Walk-In during an evening clinic…
he holidays bring up a lot for many of us: the people we miss, the relationships that are hard, the years that didn’t go the way we hoped. If that’s where you are this month, our door is open. Sometimes what starts with grief can offer an opportunity. Many of the stories, values and traditions…
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All those clicks added up! Thank you to everyone who voted for Walk-In Counseling Center in Seward Community Co-op’s 2027 SEED Community Choice selection process! We are so excited to have been selected! We will be the recipient of all round-up donations in February 2027. As a finalist in the group, we have already received…
Board Member (Volunteer) or Treasurer (Volunteer, no bookkeeping) · Minneapolis, MN · Hybrid · 3-year term Join the Walk-In Counseling Center Board of Directors and help shape our future at this dynamic time! For 56 years, Walk-In Counseling Center has done something simple and radical to help our community: anyone who needs to talk to…
Walk-In has been named a recipient of the Seward Coop Community Choice grant! In addition to the $1,000 grant to all eight finalists, Walk-In will receive the cash register “round-up” donations in February 2027 – typically totalling $8,000-$10,000. How Walk-In will use the grant to help address the crisis in the mental health training pipeline:…