Bethany Pastoral Counseling Services

Bethany Pastoral Counseling Services

	Office Phone: (860) 693-0602
	Hours By Appointment
	Bethany Pastoral Counseling Services provides counseling for individuals, couples, and families to assist in their search for healing and new options for enhanced emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Common life problems we work with include: Conflict and relationship problems Issues of self esteem Separation and divorce issues Addictive disorders and codependency Death, illness, and bereavement Parent-child relationships Life cycle developmental challenges Anxiety and depression Trauma The search for a life-giving spirituality Women’s issues Cross-cultural issues We also offer workshops and presentations, group therapy, and educational programs. Bethany is a name symbolic of safety, warmth, and the hospitality of a new fire. The Hebrew root of the word is beth, which means house. Our beth offers refuge when emotional and spiritual resources need replenishing. Bethany counseling services are available to persons of all ethnic and faith backgrounds. We work cooperatively with other professionals and service agencies. We will refer clients for consultations and/or evaluations when this is in the best interest of our clients. Since money should never be a reason for not getting counseling, Bethany uses a sliding fee scale based on client income

	The counselors at BPCS are independent practitioners who provide peer supervision for one another.

Paula A. Flynn	holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She has over twenty years of clinical experience working with children and families and employs a cognitive behavioral approach to the counseling process. Paula accepts most forms of insurance.

Susan L. Levine	is a Licensed Professional Counselor and holds a Master of Arts Degree in Pastoral Counseling from Saint Joseph College. She is a member of the American Counseling Association and the Connecticut Counseling Association. She is a graduate of the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, and has cantorial certification frim the School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. She serves as the Cantor of the Farmington Valley Jewish Congregation Emek Shalom in Simsbury. Susan can be reached at

Susan V. Lester	earned her Master of Arts in Community Counseling at Saint Joseph College and her undergraduate degree in Biblical Studies at Gordon College. She specializes in work with people experiencing transitions, grief, and emotional or spiritual distress. She is a member of the American Counseling Association and the Connecticut Counseling Association, and is pursuing a Connecticut professional counseling license.