Bill Cahalan

Bob Heiliger

Peg Niehaus

Dick Donnenwirth

Will Jones

Yvonne Peay

Flo DeWitt

Judy Kroger

Lisa Turner

Rosalie Laurenti

Dick Donnenwirth

Dick is the Clinical/Training Director of Professional Pastoral-Counseling Institute, Inc. and the principal founder in 1983. He has been in practice since 1958, is a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in the State of Ohio. He has been an ACPE Supervisor and currently supervises counselors and pastors in their ministry individually and in groups. As an adjunct faculty member with The Athenaeum of Ohio, he teaches in their graduate program in pastoral counseling. An ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church, he is ecclesiastically endorsed by the U.M.C. for the ministry of pastoral counseling.

Dick has experience in working with the most difficult situations in trauma and wounds to the spirit from earliest childhood. Read his articles "Powers: Coming and Going",  "Holiday Humbugs", and "Trauma Forgotten/Trauma Remembered" reprinted from PPImprints, the Journal of The Professional Pastoral-Counseling Institute. Other foci of his work are persons confronted with physical disabilities and assisting couples in conflict regulation and enrichment.

Bill became licensed as a clinical psychologist in 1974, receiving his Ph.D. in 1978. For more than thirty years he has engaged in therapy with a wide variety of clients in counseling center, private practice and psychiatric hospital settings. This included twelve years at another local pastoral counseling center. He particularly focuses on children and teenagers with emotional and behavioral problems, and adults with stress-related physical symptoms (see his "Transforming Stress" article) as well as with anxiety disorders, addictions and marital conflicts.

He works from an experiential-relationship orientation, focusing on a person's relationship with self, other people, the natural world, and the spiritual dimension of all these. He helps clients to more clearly sense their needs and wants, and to become more aware of their effective and ineffective ways of seeking satisfaction in the world around them. Bill suggests "experiments", both during and between sessions, for the client to try new ways of discovering and satisfying needs and desires. He invites an appreciative, gentle "listening to the body" when it fits the situation and the client's readiness to go beyond "head" knowledge alone to cultivate a more intuitive knowing.

From his Quaker faith he brings to his sessions an openness to the breath of the Spirit. Clients are invited to draw on and deepen their own spiritual roots as part of healing and learning in therapy.

Bill Cahalan

Flo DeWitt

Flo DeWitt is a Professional Clinical Counselor. Integrating client values and beliefs into the counseling process, she works with individuals, couples and families as they seek to understand and grow through the various challenges life brings. Of particular interest are issues relating to life transitions, especially with adolescents, young adults, couples, and adults at mid-life. A consistent theme of Flo’s approach is supporting clients in their efforts to discover and become more fully the person they were created to be.

Flo also has extensive experience as an organization development specialist, guiding organizations through successful strategic change. She is available to coach individuals or teams on effective leadership, conflict negotiation, creating desired organizational culture and climate.

With a M.Div. from Yale University and a MA in Counseling from the Athenaeum of Ohio, Flo is the assistant director of the Athenaeum’s Masters in Pastoral Counseling program. She is also a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.