City Church has provided and will continue to provide "pastoral care" to its members free of charge. Pastoral care usually involves 1-3 sessions with a pastor, and covers a wide range of issues from spiritual struggles to relational difficulties. However, since its inception, City Church has referred out to local psychologists and counselors people needing more clinical expertise and longer term care. It has been a desire from the beginning to start a professional, fee-for-service counseling center at City Church providing outstanding care from a distinctly Christian worldview. To this end, City Church Counseling Center will provide care at or below the standard rates of psychologists and counselors with similar credentials and experience. Our doctoral level staff will receive the highest fees, yet still at or below San Francisco market rates. Our deacons are committed to walking through a process of financial evaluation and assistance, as needed. Further, as City Church Counseling Center grows, so will its staff, providing counseling at a variety of rate scales, offering individual/marital/family therapy as well as an opportunity for therapy groups, seminars on a range of emotional/spiritual topics, and much more. The fees will go towards the development of City Church Counseling Center and its team of professional clinicians, as well as a dedicated space and staff for the center, all the while committed to providing the highest level of care for City Church and our surrounding community.