Thriving in Dimensions Empowerment Center exists to provide emotional and spiritual wholeness to broken and wounded people through the power of Jesus Christ. As a recipient of counseling, mentorship or Life Coaching, you must understand that this center is a faith based Christian Center. Our Counselors are ministers with a counseling focus. In addition to counseling mentorship and life coaching techniques, we also include prayer, the use of scripture, and biblical principles.

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Thriving In Dimensions Empowerment Center operates under the clergy/counselee confidentiality privilege, which means that communication between the counselee and minister of counseling is CONFIDENTIAL. However, there are some exceptions when the counselor without the consent of the counselee may break confidentiality: 

1. These include reasonable suspicion* of the threat of serious harm to self or others, child abuse, abuse to the elderly or disabled or when otherwise required by law. 

2. When a counselee appears gravely disabled and unable to make a rational decision as to his or her need for emergency treatment. 

3. When a counselee appears in medical crisis and unable to grant permission for release of information. 

4. When there is a court subpoena for counselee records or information. Counselors will not testify in court or release counseling notes or documents unless required by a court subpoena. This includes testifying on behalf of counselees for divorces or child custody hearings.

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At Thriving In Dimensions Empowerment our counselors have the right to consult with each other regarding counselee issues, while maintaining confidentiality within the organization. Counselors are not licensed attorneys and/or medical doctors. Information provided is strictly opinion and is not intended to be legal and /or medical counsel or clinical diagnoses. 

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Counselees are fully responsible for all decisions they make with regard to counseling recommendations and/or suggestions. Counselee(s) also agree to release all liability, in any form, that may be charged against Thriving In Dimensions Empowerment Center, they counselor and any others associated with Thriving In Dimensions Empowerment Center. 

Thriving In Dimensions Empowerment Center cannot protect your identity as you come and go from appointments. There may be times when other people may see you entering or exiting the building or interacting with us. Neither Thriving In Dimensions Empowerment Center, nor our counsellors can be held responsible for people who see you interacting with us. Thriving In Dimensions Empowerment Center goes to great lengths to protect your identity, personal information and case notes. There may also be times when meetings take place outside of Thriving In Dimensions Empowerment Center. If this occurs, these policies are still applicable.

Counseling and fees are determined by the Fee Agreement. Full payment shall be made at the beginning of each session. 

All completed intake paperwork is required prior to the counselee's first appointment. Thriving In Dimensions Empowerment Center schedules appointments in such a way as to avoid waiting times. However, in rare situations they do occur. When they do, we ask for your patience. We also ask that counselee/s have similar respect for our time. Please note that Childcare is not provided, and children are not allowed to sit unattended in the waiting areas. The counselee must make alternative arrangements for childcare prior to their appointment. Counselling sessions are scheduled for 1 hour in duration. If the counselee is more than 15 minutes late, the appointment will be shortened and possibly cancelled.

Cancellations

If the counselee is unable to make an appointment, they should contact our office by calling, giving us no less than 24-hours advance notice so we can allocate this time to assist another counselee. 

It is vital that you, the counselee/s, do the assignments the counselor gives. As the Bible says you will reap what you sow. If you put forth a halfhearted attempt at the assignments, you will get a halfhearted return. Failure to complete assignments may delay the progress with counseling sessions.

Counseling is normally terminated by mutual consent between the counselee and counselor because they have reached the desired outcomes. This can occur in either verbal or written form. However, either the counselee or the counselor retains the right to terminate counseling at any time. If you, the counselee, is absent repeatedly from scheduled appointments, fail to schedule an appointment for two consecutive months (unless previously agreed upon), or do not reply to our attempts to contact you, then Thriving In Dimensions Empowerment Center as well as your counselor will understand this to mean you have chosen to terminate counseling. 

When counseling is terminated for any reason, a termination of counseling service will be placed in the counselee's file. The termination of the counselor/counselee relationship occurs when: 

1) The counselee informs the counselor that they do not believe they need additional counseling; 

2) The counselee does not schedule additional sessions; 

3) The counselee does not reschedule or show up for a scheduled session; 

4) The counselor recommends that the counselee be referred to another counselor or professional. The termination of counseling notice may be sent along with a service assessment form to the counselee, but receipt of these forms is not necessary for them to be in effect.