Educational programs to upgrade pastoral skills. Career Assessment and Counseling Programs. Pittsburgh Pastoral Institute, founded in 1964, is a church-related ecumenical counseling agency licensed by the state as an outpatient psychiatric clinic to provide pastoral psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and families in the Greater Pittsburgh area. The staff, comprised of ordained clergy, members of religious orders, and active lay people of various faiths, represents the disciplines of pastoral psychotherapy, marriage and family therapy, social work, psychiatric nursing, psychology and psychiatry. PPI is accredited as a Pastoral Counseling Service and Training Center by the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, and licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare as an Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic.
Counseling is confidential, as provided by state law and professional ethics.
All persons who can profit from pastoral psychotherapy are accepted without any discrimination based on age, sex, color, ethnic origin, specific denomination, or degree of physical handicap. Morton Johan, Linda Himot, Mark Webb. PPI provides speakers to address life cycle transitions and developments of individuals and couples and families.