WPA Counseling, Your Guiding Light for Mental Wellbeing!
Get accessible and personalized mental healthcare in person or from the comfort of your home.
Therapy Your Way
WPA Counseling strives to make therapy accessible to all. Our office is conveniently located in Irwin, PA. Can’t make it into the office? No worries – we’ve got you covered with teletherapy. We’ll schedule every appointment for a time and place that you’re comfortable with. Get ready to set sail on a mental health journey!
Providing You with Shelter from the Storm.
All your appointments will take place in our soothing office environment with fully private rooms and individualized care. WPA Counseling is a safe space where you and your counselor can work together through the storm of mental illness and see the sunshine through the dark clouds. We are personally invested in your mission to help you achieve a healthier mind.
Our Counseling Services
Individual
You don’t have to sail the seas of mental health alone. WPA Counseling offers individual counseling with a licensed therapist who will become the lighthouse you need.
Marriage/Couples
Mistrust, finances, in-laws, WPA Counseling offers comprehensive counseling for a range of issues that commonly strain the relationships of marriage and couples.
Family
A family unit is a complicated unit. WPA Counseling understands that healthy minds are crucial to keeping a family together and strong through thick and thin.
Coaching
Sometimes life is overwhelming, and we’re unsure of which of many paths to take next. WPA Counseling is here to give you a nudge in the right direction with accredited coaching.
Meet Our Team
Steve Luther
MSEd, MEd, LPC
With over 25 years of experience, Steve works with individuals of all ages, couples, and families. He specializes in dealing with adoption trauma in families and other relational issues.
Jason Baatten
MA, MBA, LPC
Jason is our practice director and sees individuals of all ages. He adheres to a holistic wellness approach utilizing evidence based treatments including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Jason sees people in Irwin, Uniontown and online.
Louise Meleshenko
MSW, LCSW
Our Clinical Director has over 20 years of experience providing therapy to adults and late adolescents using evidence-based treatments, as well as EMDR and sex addiction.
Aki Jamal Durham
MA
Our Director of Creativity Aki contributes his creative talents to WPA Counseling both in his counseling and coaching as well being an integral part of our marketing and leadership teams. Aki works with individual, couples and business in clinical, coaching and consulting capacities.
Getting Started
Connect with a Care Team Member
Our care team is standing by ready to connect. We believe the healing process begins here. It’s not easy to reach out for help so our care team meets you with warmth and understanding…helping you connect at your pace and based on your needs.
Select a Counselor and Location
One of the advantages of WPA Counseling is the diverse group of counselors available to choose from. Our care team will help you pick the right counselor for your needs. If we can’t connect you with one of our counselors we will help you find a referral that will work for you.
Connect with Your Counselor
The care team will schedule an appointment for you either in person at one of our locations or online…depending on what works best for you. At your first appointment, your counselor will get to know your needs and desires for your healing journey and establish a plan to help.
Begin Your Healing Journey
After a plan is put in place, your counselor will guide you through the process of healing at your pace. We believe the counseling relationship is a partnership. You are the expert on your life and your counselor is the expert on the process. Together we can cart a journey to peace and wellness.
Our Counseling Blueprint
Take off the Mask
The first step in the process is to “take off the mask” and be genuine and honest with yourself and your counselor. This is done through a process of building rapport and trust in the counseling relationship. You were wounded in relationship and it is important to heal in relationship…a safe, accepting and therapeutic relationship with your counselor.
Heal the Wounds
Once rapport and trust are established and the mask is off, your counselor will help you explore what has hurt you. Our wounds (emotional, spiritual, relational and sometimes physical) are the root cause of our suffering and need to be identified and healed.
Remove the Toxins
Once you have done some healing work on the things that hurt you, your counselor will help you identify the toxins left behind. These are the lies you believed, consciously or subconsiously at the time of the wounding that can stick with you long after the wound is healed.
Replace with Truth
Once the toxic beliefs are removed, there is room for the truth. Your counselor will help you identify the truths about yourself, others, and the world that were stolen from you when you were hurt. To often the counseling process stops with the “heal the wounds” step. At WPA Counseling, we are interested in you believing and living your truth.