About
Hope Way Counseling Services is named after the street on which I live. I got to name my own street when I built our barrier free home on the land that we owned in Cadillac, MI. I wanted our home to be a place of hope for my wife who is chronically ill, for myself as I rest on this land of woods, ponds and wildlife, and for my clients who will come here longing for hope in the midst of trouble. I have two offices for my practice, one on Hope Way in Cadillac and the other in Path-Way Church in Byron Center, MI.
Hope is about having something to look forward to. God is a God of hope and in Him we have the most reliable reasons to hope for something better, something good, something that heals us into eternal life through Jesus Christ. I hope that my work as a counselor both births hope and realizes the healing hoped for. That is why I have named my practice Hope Way Counseling Services.
I started my career as a high school English teacher. I then went to seminary and did pastoral ministry (four churches in various parts of the USA) for twenty-seven years. Then, I went back to graduate school for an MSW in Boston, MA and on to clinical social work for the last seven years in for Community Mental Health and Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services. I am now doing only clinical private practice in Grand Rapids, MI and in Cadillac, MI. I am a licensed clinical social worker and an ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church of North America. My wife Judy (43 years of marriage) and I have three adult daughters and six grandchildren.
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