Our Approach
We comfort others with the comfort we have been given.
At the LPC, we are committed to an integrated approach to care that is concerned with your physical, spiritual, and emotional health–not just one portion of your experience. Our Care Coaches are trained to support you in the intersection of your needs, taking a holistic look at what makes you who you are, and how they can best support you in this chapter of your story.
Our Care Model emphasizes the continuation of care to support you through the journey you find yourself on, which we recognize as only one chapter of your unique life story.
Our Integrated Approach To Care
When caring for people facing pregnancy, reproductive loss, relationships, infertility, and abortion, physical care is not enough. We feel strongly that, in these important areas, an integrated approach to care—i.e. physical, spiritual, and emotional care—is paramount.
In our experience, most of the resources people turn to for reproductive or relational support address only one aspect of the three types of care a person needs. There are resources for people to turn to when in need of support physically through an experience like reproductive loss, like a doctor’s office, clinic, or hospital. But spiritual and emotional care are just as important.
At the LPC, we can provide all of these services at once. Our trained Care Coaches and on-staff nurse can address the emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of a client. Spiritual support can be sought through one’s church community, family or friends, or a religious representative such as a priest or pastor. Therapy and support groups are available to help people examine and process their emotions around these issues.
You are a complex being, with dreams, needs, thoughts, relationships, and experiences. To ignore any part of that complexity is to deny what makes you unique.
Here are some examples of areas in which you may benefit from an integrated approach to care:
- You are struggling with your feelings after an abortion, unsure how to reconcile this experience with your faith, and wondering how this will affect your relationship with your partner.
- You have been unsuccessful so far at becoming pregnant, and are wondering if this is God’s plan for you, and how you feel about that idea.
- You have not found a romantic partner and struggle with how to respond to friends’ and family’s pressure to meet someone, while also questioning your purpose and place within your church community.
- You are pregnant, unmarried, and a Christian and unsure how to move forward with God, your faith, and your church.
As you can see in these examples, the issues around relationships and reproduction can be complicated and difficult to navigate, and you don’t have to navigate them alone. Our Care Coaches would be honored to walk alongside you for as long as you need.
We’re In It For The Long Haul
There are periods of our lives in which we may need additional support, and the LPC specializes in supporting people during many different stages of their relational and reproductive journeys.
We recognize that some experiences are not timed or linear, which is why we will continue to follow up with you, listen to you, and pray for you for as long as 18 months if desired. We will be a safe place for you to process your thoughts and emotions and we can locate additional resources for you if needed.
Our services run the spectrum of issues related to reproductive health and relationships, and we are able to give general health information, a nurse consultation if needed, and counsel people through areas like fertility, relationship issues, singleness, parenting and co-parenting, and more. While Care Coaches are not licensed counselors, they have been trained in trauma-informed care and counseling skills, alongside a faith-based curriculum of care. We can talk to you about what is happening in your body, your mind, and your heart.
Loving As Jesus Loved
As you can see in our Spiritual/Theological Foundations, the LPC’s mission is to glorify God and make the Gospel of Jesus known by caring for women and men as God intended, showing them the reality of Jesus through our actions and words, and respecting the innate, inborn value each person has as a creation of God. This respect for your personhood is why we approach clients with curiosity, humility, and empathy.
Only you know what you have been through. Only you know how you feel. Only you know what it feels like to be inside of your body. You are unique, cherished, purposefully created, and loved by God.
Our desire is to sit alongside you and help you process what is happening in this portion of your life story. This may involve walking you through the process of grief or healing, discovering the agency you have over your life and decisions, or simply realizing your worth and intrinsic value. You are unique, cherished, created, and loved by God. We want to show up for you as Jesus does: with empathy, understanding, curiosity, and calm.
- Do I fit in my church community as a single person?
- Will I ever get pregnant?
- Is this what God intended for my life?
- Does this ever stop hurting? Will I always feel this broken?
- Does God still love me? Do I love myself?
- I am under 18 and scared. How do I navigate this alone?
If you have questions like these, the LPC can help. Contact us today!