Heartfelt Ministries specializes in the detection and treatment of any mental illness and/or personality disorder. |
| This involves the diagnosis of a particular mental illness, a wealth of information about it and supportive psychotherapy and Biblical change strategies. We also provide linkage to psychiatrists by referral. We can help facilitate psychiatric hospital admissions. We teach you how to talk to your psychiatrist/doctor. |
| Crisis stabilization is a major part of our counseling the mentally ill. |
We also do marriage counseling and family therapy.
We are able to counsel those who are grieving.
Fee - sixty dollars an hour, paid online or by check.
Phone Therapy is available for those outside of the Grand Rapids area.
Some counseling is done by email. Scholarship money is available.
Call us at 616.447.9064
What about Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
Steve is a certified DBT therapist; actually, he was personally instructed in DBT
by Dr. Marsha Linehan. He and a coworker were the first in the area to set
up and run a DBT group. It was very successful for a number of years.
Steve also has done personal therapy with scores of those with Borderline Personality
Disorder. He subsitutes some of the Budist principles which are inherent
in DBT with Christian priniciples of biblical meditation and contemplation.
At this point, Steve is considering opening a DBT group in Grand Rapids< MI.
He also has success in doing DBT phone therapy.
Rev. Steve Bloem (B.A. M.M. LBSW) is co-author of Broken Minds Hope for Healing When You Feel Like You're Losing It.
Steve Bloem is a pastoral/clinical counselor and has many years of experience counseling those who have a mental illness.He also is a trained marriage counselor, He has been married to Robyn for thirty years..
He also has studied the treatment of Border Line Personality Disorder at the University of Washington under Dr. Marsha Linehan. This is known as DBT.