About Us
Change your belief, Change your life..
Based in Brooklyn, NY, we’re a select team of highly experienced, state-licensed clinicians who’ve worked together for many years, each with extensive experience and New York State certified in clinical social work and many with additional post-graduate training and certification.
We provide counseling and psychotherapy plus educational seminars and presentations on numerous topics related to family life.
WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE?
In the context of cultural sensitivity, we partner with consumers to address clinical issues on three distinct levels: personal, interpersonal and systemic–a comprehensive approach with a high probability of success. Most other change and improvement approaches focus only on one and at most two of these factors.
The center is headed by John McQueen–Family Therapist, Certified Family Life Educator, Mental Health Harm Reduction Specialist, and Educator.
Call or email us . We can answer for all your questions.
Phone: 347 – 244 7258, Fax: 347-244 -7363 Office Hours: Mon – Fri 11:00am – 8:00pm
John P. McQueen,
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/FOUNDER Family Therapist, Certified Family Life Educator, Mental Health Harm Reduction Specialist, and Educator
Our therapeutic model is by no means the only model there is, but its among the most effective, in terms of changing lives.
OUR MISSION
To strengthen relationships by helping to increase the knowledge, skills and capacities of individuals within the family system.
The process
Typically, we begin with a short telephone discussion on your concerns, goals, and constraints. The purpose of this discussion is to understand and clarify what consumers are trying to achieve. The intake coordinator will then act with discretion as consumer`s contact and guide to assist them in finding the appropriate therapists or life coach based on their needs and preferences.
Professional development
Our Field Instructors or Certified Social Work Supervisors have instituted a flexible, tailor-made in-house/on-site training/internship program to meet the needs of mental health professionals. We are especially interested in providing training, resources and support to therapists who are desirous of establishing clinical practices in faith-based settings.
In 1991, John`s research on black fathering at the Andrews University germinated or gave birth to the Imani Rites of Passage, an innovative therapeutic and recreational program which addresses the interrelated academic and emotional needs of children..
Mr. McQueen is Founder of Family Renaissance, Inc. where he continues the work began at Andrews University.
Also President of Redemption Christian Center, Center for Psychotherapy and Father Absent Network.
Via the above instruments Mr. McQueen has helped thousands of children and adults in their quest for psychological and spiritual development with specific, measurable results, at times in the face of intractable human challenges.
Popular Question
Psychotherapy is an interpersonal, relational intervention used by trained psychotherapists to aid clients in solving problems of everyday living. This usually includes increasing the individual sense of well-being and reduction of subjective, discomforting experiences. Psychotherapists employ a range of techniques based on relationship building, dialogue, communication and behavior modification that are designed to improve the mental health of individuals and groups (such as in a family).
Mental health is the state or condition of being well mentally, characterized by soundness to thought and outlook, adaptability to one`s environment and balanced behavior. It is reflected in the way people think, feel and act as they face life`s situations. It affects how they handle stress, relate to one another, and make decisions. It influences the ways individuals look at themselves, their lives and others in their lives.
The word counseling (or counselling) comes from the Middle English counseil, from Old French conseil, from Latin cōnsilium; akin to cōnsulere, to take counsel, consult. Counseling can be defined as a relatively short-term, interpersonal, theory-based process of advising persons who need to resolve developmental and situational issues.