Marblehead Counseling Center (MCC) provides programs and services to the community in seven primary ways. This includes counseling, group therapy and support, psychopharmacology, parent support, education, mediation, and consultation and community service.

COUNSELING/PSYCHOTHERAPY:  MCC offers individual, couple and family counseling for children, youths, adults and elders on a wide range of issues and problems.  Therapists meet with clients in private sessions to help them develop new approaches and arrive at solutions for the issues that have brought them to MCC.
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PARENTING SUPPORT: Parent Enrichment Workshops  
Currently MCC is focusing on parent education through a program of parent education workshops based on the nationally recognized model, “Systematic Training for Effective Parenting”, or STEP.  This 6-session course helps parents to refine skills in order to make their parenting less frustrating and more productive.  The course covers the four types of misbehavior, how changing the parent’s reaction gets different results, encouraging rather than praising children, effective communication with children, cooperative problem solving and collaboration, and ways to use discipline rather than punishing.  Courses are presented to three levels of parents: those with pre-schoolers, with grade school students, and with pre-teenagers/teenagers.  In addition, special STEP training is offered for teachers of preschoolers and grandparents.
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COMMUNITY EDUCATION MCC sponsors education and training programs on topics that are of interest to community members.  Programs are conducted by MCC staff as well as invited guests who have expertise in a particular area.  Programs have been offered for Women in Transition, Parenting, Alcohol and Drug Awareness, Conflict Resolution, Aging with Grace, and Grandparenting. 

MEDIATION: The Mediation Program provides an alternative approach to dispute resolution. Trained mediators help parties in conflict identify the issues, communicate concerns, and constructively explore possible solutions to problems.  Mediation can help resolve disputes between business and consumers, landlords and tenants, parents and children, and neighbors and friends.
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CONSULTATION AND SPECIALIZED TRAINING: Counseling Center staff members work with Town agencies and the school system to provide individual consultation and special programs and workshops.  MCC staffs an employee assistance program for town workers, and trains department heads and supervisors respond to the needs of troubled employees.  MCC staff members are also actively involved in community committees and task forces.