As an Endorsed Retired Ordained NBCC/LCSW-R Provider, my chief and highest end is to help you enjoy your life together. With extensive experience in Spiritual Counseling that supports joyful client success, my individualized positivity helps you attain your Spiritual life goals. Click on my favorite Link below to learn more on caregiving support, or call me 631-882-0885.
As a professionally trained and experienced Spiritual Counselor I am committed to the Spiritual sense of self. Like poet Robert Frost, who mastered a blending of accessible, conversational language with complex philosophical themes, I am deeply committed to the ultimate truth of God's American spirit. Like the poetic lens of Frost's Poem "The Secret Sits in the Middle," you experience God's Grace through my Pre-Marital Wedding Counseling:
"We dance around a Circle and suppose but the Secret sits in-the-middle and Knows."
Committing to a healthier lifestyle is just that – a commitment, and it’s a big one that will take a lot a dedication. My commitment is to provide you with accountability, understanding and Spiritual support. Take a step into a Spiritual "firm voice," a Cantus Firmus that takes dedicated hopeful steps to sing with another's voice, Spiritually. For example, 14th c. Composer Machaut, inspired Chaucer, polyphonically, e.g., in Messe de Nostre Dame there are four voices singing with a low range pre-existing tenor (i.e., a spiritual voice, which Machaut historically designated as a representative primary human fully sounding "chest voice") that firmly flows with the other voices, pluralistically, yet becoming "invisible." Like Machaut's Kyrie Cantus Firmus, then, listen to a gentle breeze revealing a Spiritual Voice only found in your very own unique "thin silence" (1 Kings 19:12c) that gently centers the very breath of your unique voice. Hence, by holding this "firm voice," feel a creativity of such nature in all your relationships going into Marriage 💍 --before a Wedding Ceremony Rev. Mark Officiates.
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Pre-Marital Counseling is an interactive experience where we discover your Spiritual goals and passions for journeying down a joyful pathway.
Anyone starting a new family will begin to get being together for coping with conflict (prescribed medications), one's psychological Faith (practices of psychotherapy, mindfulness & trauma Informed Well being), and one's lifestyle (nutritional medicine & physical activity's role).
100%! What happens in our sessions stays in our sessions, which validates the joys of the chief and highest end you share, confessionally. Confidentiality is not only my professional call as a NY State LCSWR, but as an Ordained Minister I vowed at the tallest Church in America, the Riverside Church, in the city of New York 5 decades ago in my Pre-Marital Wedding Counseling Sunday 10/18/1987. Hence, I prayerfully keep confidences, faithfully, as an Ordained Counselor, to fulfill your faith's binding New York State Court Clerk's Wedding License (or, et al) that you present for Pre-Marital self-evident sacred dialogue, accordingly.
The time that your Pre-Marital process takes is 60 days from your presentation of your Wedding License. Depending on the complexity of your Spiritual goals and your commitment and openness to your process prior to your Wedding Service, I usually provide 8 sessions, once a week. Your Wedding License in New York State (or, et al, accordingly) is 60 days before that day your Wedding is Officiated. As one who has pronounced Weddings since I was Ordained at the tallest Church in America, the Riverside Church in the city of New York, with the largest ringing bell in-the-world 🔔, I am ready.
Rev. Mark's philosophy comes out of Chautauqua, NY, which is a premier Religious Pluralism & Freedom Recreational Education Institute, where William James wrote his famous "Varieties of Religious Experience" in summer of 1958. Following James' Religious Pluralism & Freedom of that summer 1958 Chautauqua Thesis, Mark supports Faith Counseling. By identifying strengths and values in Pre-Marital Counseling a couple prepares to create a plan of action to achieve Life-Long desired outcomes before their Wedding Day.
Because Marriage itself is the Center of Family Life, Rev. Mark follows US Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the most quoted SCOTUS Justice. Holmes was appointed by Teddy Roosevelt, who promoted Religious Freedom & Pluralism saying "Chautauqua is the most American thing in America." Hence, Chautauqua itself provides a perfect venue for a Wedding Ceremony Rev. Mark Applewhite Professionally Performs!
SCOTUS Oliver Wendell Holmes,JR, appointed by TR 1902
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