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MISSION

The mission of the Marblehead Counseling Center is to contribute to improving the quality of life for our entire community: children, teenagers, adults, and families. To this end, the Marblehead Counseling Center provides a catalyst and forum for discussing special issues and a broad range of services to meet the needs of individuals and families. Special focus is on alcohol and drug misuse, stresses of life in a modern community, such as financial and career difficulties, adolescent stresses, family difficulties and individual issues or tensions resulting from housing, religious differences, etc. The primary tools are education and counseling, which includes special listening and caring, facilitated by a staff of highly trained professionals with diverse experience.
 

HISTORY

In 1969 a group of Marblehead residents realized that there was little being done on the North Shore to address the counseling needs of children, teens, and adults. Especially pressing was the lack of services for substance abuse as well as for mental health problems like depression and family upheaval. In response, the group founded the Marblehead Counseling Center to provide direct services to individuals and families and to be a forum for addressing community needs.

Thirty-five years later the Marblehead Counseling Center remains true to that vision. Focusing its efforts on Marblehead, it has provided over 110,000 therapy sessions to help people in the tough times in their lives. Special outreach to teens has assisted them and their families through those difficult, growing years. Group treatment has covered women’s issues, single parenting, addictions, adult children raised in addicted families, men’s concerns, children with attention deficit disorder and teenage girls. In recent years MCC’s therapy with couples and families has grown tremendously.

Although the Center was originally funded as a substance abuse outpatient facility, it has expertise in most areas of treatment. Especially strong is its work with youth, with family and marriage issues, with depression, and, of course, with the misuse of alcohol and other drugs.

MCC has always been involved in, and often initiated, task forces and committees to address specific community issues such as substance abuse, adolescent issues, societal violence, housing, youth sports, and families in financial struggle. This participation arises from a belief that a service agency must be integrated into and integral to the community it serves.

MCC serves residents of the North Shore area. Uninsured individuals who live or work in Marblehead are eligible to use a sliding fee scale based on income. Because of local governmental support and extensive fund raising, the services at the Center are offered to those who live and work in Marblehead, regardless of an ability to pay a fee or coverage by insurance.

MCC accepts a variety of insurances programs. Please contact the Center to determine whether a specific insurance plan can be utilized for treatment.