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Our Staff • Our Services • Our Campus The Mercy Center, Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 not for profit organization founded by Rev. William J. Jarema in 1988. We are located in beautiful Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Mercy Center offers residential and nonresidential programs for personal growth and well-being. The Main facility houses our offices, main conference room, sun room and five-guests rooms. We provide additional housing for 14 guests at St. Joseph and St. Bridget Guest houses that are across the street from our main facility. Our guests come from around the world and share with us their unique and particular cultural heritage through their stories, food/recipes and life experiences. The Mercy Center for Healing the Whole Person is dedicated to an eclectic and whole-person approach to healing and wholeness and prides itself on the intimate dialogue maintained between the physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual and social dynamics of each person who comes to seek their personal healing and well-being. Each member of our staff is trained in one or more areas of expertise. These may include Spiritual Direction, Inner Healing, Pastoral Counseling, Body/Breath Work, Massage Therapy, Art Therapy, Somatic Assessment, Mandala Exploration and Integration, Dreams and Archetypes, Healing the Mother/Father Wound, Conscious Celibacy, The Genogram, Anger-Anxiety-Fear Management, Grief Resolution and Ritual Grieving , Trauma Resolution due to Physical, Sexual, and Emotional Abuse.
Founder and Program Director of the Mercy Center for Healing the Whole Person, Colorado Springs, Colorado, with numerous satellite programs throughout the United States and three foreign mission projects in the West Indies. Founder and Spiritual Director of the Society of Missionaries of Mercy, a private association of the Christian faithful for clergy, laity, men and women, married and single. A lay institute for the training of men and women as spiritual companions, spiritual directors, inner healing providers and inner healing specialists, lay missionaries dedicated to a spirituality of mercy and the healing ministry of Jesus Christ. As a community, they are dedicated to the vow of conversion of life and the spiritual and corporal works of mercy. Fr. Bill has provided workshops, retreats and clergy conferences internationally. As part of the Mercy Center team, he offers a residential pastoral care treatment program for clergy and religious – The Vitality Program, a 13-week sabbatical program every Fall and Spring, and a Spiritual Directors Training /Renewal Program – the month of July in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He provides a specialized program for clergy and religious on "Conscious Celibacy: Truth or Consequence," an intensive review of the biological, psychological and social implications of celibacy and those who dare to be celibate in the 21st century. Father Bill is a national consultant and educator for profit and nonprofit corporations and a National Certified Counselor, Spiritual Director, Workshop and Retreat Director. Fr. Bill specializes in whole person healing, typology and team building, corporate development management and assessment, marriage, family and organizational addictions/dysfunction, and an eclectic approach to healing, wholeness and well‑being. Author of: The Conscious Celibacy Workbook Soon To Be Released: Climbing Out Of The Anger Pit and The Four Gardens: An Allegory for Those Along The Way.
Tim is the Executive Director of the Mercy Center for Healing the Whole Person in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Mercy Center offers three lay leadership training programs, 13 week sabbatical program, and a personal program called Vitality. He is a licensed massage therapist, spiritual director, inner healing provider, and lay missionary. Tims training includes body centered transformation, Somatic Assessment and breath work techniques. He provides body and breath work for the Vitality participants to release frozen feelings and unresolved traumas. Tim is a guardian to son. Tim has served as the Mission coordinator for the Society of Missionaries of Mercy a lay secular institute which sponsors short-term mission projects. Tim has traveled through out the United States offering numerous workshops and seminars on personal and professional growth and healing. Tim lives in community with program residents and travels to Mercy Center satellite programs throughout the year. He is currently attending Regis University in pursuit of his undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Communications. Tim has been with the Mercy Center since 1989.
William Winaski, LPC. MA . Bill Winaski is a Licensed Professional Counselor with NCC certification who provides help to couples and individuals in the areas of relationship issues, anger, abuse and trauma, grief, and emotional struggles. He enjoys working with people who want to free themselves of wounds and obstacles that hinder their life satisfaction and who desire to embrace the growth and skills that lead to joy, fulfilling relationships, or a great marriage. Bill loves helping people experience that life can be so much better!
Donna is a spiritual director, inner healing specialist, lay missionary. Donna specializes in the Genogram and is a certified Enneagram provider. Donna has been with the Mercy Center since 1990. Donna has taught at private vocational college from 1978 through 1989. Nancy Gresham, LPC, MA She received her BA from St. Louis University and her MA in counseling from the University of Colorado. Nancy a licensed Professional Counselor, and fully trained in EMDR. She specializes in trauma issues as well as utilizing EMDR for resources development and personal growth. She has also completed training in Focusing “techniques as provided by Dr’s Campbell & McMahon (authors of Bio-Spirituality) and is a certified Practioner of Neurolinquistic Programming. She completed the Spiritual Director’s Training at the Mercy Center in 2002. Nancy spent 2yrs + working in a center, that specialized in Alcohol and Substance issues. (2003-2005)
Nancy, a licensed massage therapist since 1977. Her training includes craniosacral, healing touch, core repatterning and neuromuscular therapy.
Heidi, has been a licensed massage therapist since 1999, Nationally Certified in 2000. Her training includes Swedish Massage, Deep Tissue, Neuromuscular Therapy, Reflexology, Hot Stone and Reiki.
Kim Le Nguyen holds a Bachelor's of Fine Art from the University of Louisiana specializing in watercolor. At Mount Mary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she attained a Master's degree in Art Therapy. She as worked as an activity psychotherapist for over 15 years.
Spiritual Direction...which seeks to help a person grow in his/her relationship with God and to explore the impact of this relationship on the person’s everyday life. Pastoral Counseling...which offers individual and group therapy while also taking into account a person’s spiritual values and one’s relationship with God. Inner Healing...which is a process that brings to consciousness, memories, traumas, and unreconciled relationships of the past. With God’s mercy and grace, all types of personal woundedness can be relieved and healed. Massage Therapy & Breath and Body work... is a process which helps one to dive into frozen feelings and psychosomatic symptoms and integrate feelings and emotions.. Massage Therapy...using various modalities to help individuals own their body, connect the mind and body, experience relaxation and assistance in relieving muscle pain. EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method of psychotherapy that has been extensively researched and proven effective for the treatment of trauma. EMDR is a set of standardized protocols that incorporates elements from many different treatment approaches. To date, EMDR has helped an estimated two million people of all ages relieve many types of psychological stress. For EMDRIA's clinical definition of EMDR. Please go to emdria.org Mandala Exploration & Integration – through the use of color, configurations and the Mandala circle assistance can be found through the archetypes to name where you are stuck and how to get unstuck. Dreams and Archetypes are another pathway to discover God’s forgotten language and how to listen for what is in order and what is out of order. Art Therapy involves the guidance of an art therapist who will help you explore personal and professional areas of growth and development through art expressions and creativity. Healing the Mother and Father Wounds: Understanding the unique contributions made by our mother and father will help each person understand the value of the adult life skills given by our parents and how can live life to the full when our “container (given by our father) does not leak and we have enough of the fluid of life (given by our mother”). Without enough of each the container and fluid we will struggle with time and money management, understanding relationships and attract co-dependent people, unable to maintain healthy boundaries, over work, over function and over invest in the care of others. Our Campus Includes: Non-smoking facility. The Mercy Center is just 10-minutes from downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado. We are just 10 minutes from walking to the Biedleman Center-Sondorman Park. The Mercy Center is centrally located so that short tours to some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world are just minutes away.
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