Virtual Clergy Care
A practice for clergy who are publicly performing but privately in pain.
SERVICES:
It is quite common for clergy to experience stress and pressure in their daily lives. At times, you or a pastor you know may feel overwhelmed by feelings of sadness, anxiety or loneliness. Whether you are experiencing marital challenges, ministry dissatisfaction or dealing with depression, please know that you are not alone.
HULDAH Consulting is a unique pastoral counseling service which specializes in delivering virtual care and counseling for clergy – from anywhere in the world. In our ecumenical commitment to clergy well-being, we partner with hurting clergy during the most difficult seasons of their lives, to offer healing and hope.
At HULDAH, we honor the sacredness of your personal narrative (or life story) by meeting you where you are and assisting you in uncovering, discovering and recovering a sense of wholeness and well-being. We draw from several theoretical modes of counseling to integrate spirituality, psychology and cultural context. Through mutual respect, compassion and understanding, we provide a confidential, supportive pastoral presence in your journey towards healing and wholeness.
We offer comprehensive clergy counseling services:
Abuse Infidelity & Sexual Intimacy
Anger Leadership & Organizational Development
Anxiety Marriage and Family Issues
Burnout Ministerial Boundary Setting
Career Transitions in Ministry Personal Growth
Church Hurt/Religious Abuse Post-traumatic Stress
Clergy Consultations Premarital Counseling for Clergy
Depression Sexual Trauma (in various forms)
Divorce Spiritual Mentoring
Faith Crises Stress
Grief and Loss Substance Abuse (and other addictions)
Sudden Illness…
HULDAH Counseling Modules:
Individual
A primary goal in individual counseling is for the counselee to make a desired change toward well-being. It involves working one on one with a pastoral counselor to explore your feelings, beliefs and behaviors around challenging life experiences, in order to identify areas that require a deeper understanding of ‘self’ and ‘other’ in your journey toward desired change.
Couples
Clergy couples pursue counseling for many different reasons – i.e., marital stress, boundary issues, spiritual intervention, loss of intimacy, disconnectedness, etc. While many couples benefit from gaining improved communication and conflict-resolution skills, couples’ counseling is not only about problem-solving. It also involves learning how to work together as a couple, to strengthen the foundation of your relationship by re-discovering some of the qualities in each other, that brought you together in the first place.
Groups
At HULDAH, our group counseling module is predominantly psycho-educational. It consists of group trainings, seminars, workshops and conferencing, to aid clergy in professional and organizational development.
HOMEPAGE (page one) – Tufted sofa
HULDAH Clergy Care
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ABOUT ME (page two) --
I am a pastoral counselor who provides support to pastors who find themselves overwhelmed by pastoral ministry. I am a pastoral theologian who offers professional consultation to pastors in the areas of church organization and leadership development. I am an adjunct professor of pastoral counseling who prepares clergy in the academy, for ministry to the world. Some would say, I’m a great conversationalist, who happens to be a pastor, clinically trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy.
My journey in clergy care began many years ago while cradling the storied lives of hurting clergy leaders. Stress and depression are prevailing themes in my work with clergy – reconciling the tension between ‘public performance’ amidst ‘private pain’. HULDAH Clergy Care is an outgrowth of these encounters.
Professionally, in addition to clergy depression, my background includes extensive work in psychodynamic psychotherapy and marriage and family therapy. I completed three clinical residencies in Pastoral Counseling at the Care and Counseling Center of Georgia. I was also part of a research team at Emory University’s School of Psychology researching prolonged exposure therapy with survivors of rape, who suffered with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Finally, I completed two hospital chaplaincies (in central NJ) with an emphasis on palliative care, grief and loss.
Educationally, I earned my Doctor of Theology degree in Pastoral Counseling at Emory University and my Master of Divinity and Master of Theology degrees, respectively, in Pastoral Counseling at Princeton Theological Seminary. I teach pastoral theology, care and counseling at Emory University; and, I am an ordained pastor in the American Baptist Churches, USA. I hold memberships in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, the Society for Pastoral Theology and the American Academy of Religion.
HULDAH Virtual Clergy Care (page three) --
Welcome to HULDAH Clergy Care!
HULDAH Clergy Care draws upon the ministry of the Old Testament prophetess Huldah and her practice of consulting with the high priests, kings and religious leaders of her day. HULDAH offers a safe space for clergy to receive pastoral counseling at critical junctures in their pastoral journey.
Our mission involves – Helping to Undergird Leaders through Direction, Accountability and Healing.
We offer:
- Virtual Clergy Care
- Consultation for Clergy and Churches in Transition
- Organizational and Leadership Development for Clergy
To request an appointment with Dr. Wynnetta Wimberley, please complete and submit the following:
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-Pastoral Counseling
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Premarital
-Clergy Consultation
-Speaking Engagement
-Seminar/Workshop Request
-Preaching
-Other
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Privacy Statement - forthcoming
BOOK (page four) –
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Purchase at: www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781349949090
Academic endorsements:
“Wynnetta Wimberley argues that many African American clergy experience depression, and that it must be addressed with a pastoral response that considers the particularities of culture, context, and community. The author gives solid research and convincing argument among cultural trauma from slavery, historic black religion, historic African American Protestant church culture and its reification of the local pastor …I believe that this is such an important text and that the field desperately needs it. This is indispensable reading material for all African American clergy in leadership positions.” (Dwight N. Hopkins, Professor of Theology, the University of Chicago Divinity School, USA)
“With courage and candor, ‘Depression in African American Clergy’ points out the unfortunate pattern of black clergy denying the importance of behavioral health and mental wellness as central to ministry service. By tracing the cultural roots of mental illness in black communities, the author helps us to understand why so many resist candid conversations about depression. To be sure, the author neither patronizes nor pathologizes black Christian leaders. But, she does inaugurate a necessary conversation concerning what responsible and healthy leadership should look like in our churches. This book should be on the shelf of every clergy member in this country!“ (Jonathan L. Walton, Caroline Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and the Nathan M. Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University)
CONTACT US (page five) –
For speaking engagements and inquiries, contact HULDAH Consulting at info@huldah.com.
RESOURCES (page six) -- forthcoming
HULDAH was female prophetess, uniquely positioned in the community because she “… sat on the Judean council of elders.” When King Josiah wanted to repair the temple by destroying everything associated with idol worship, he sought out HULDAH. Like his father David, he was passionate about pleasing God; and, in the process of initiating temple reform, the Book of the Law was found and read aloud to him. Upon hearing its contents, he was grieved by its grave warnings, prompting him to seek the counsel of HULDAH, who was renowned for matters pertaining to the Book of the Law.
HULDAH was a respected leader in the Judeo-Christian community. She lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter (or Mishneh) where the king, high priests, and counselors frequently petitioned her for the Word of God.
HULDAH was selected to intervene for them, rather than her contemporary Jeremiah, because they believed as a woman she would be far more compassionate than Jeremiah in petitioning God on their behalf.
She was a principal author of Hebrew Scripture, one of fourteen individuals who worked with King Josiah’s secretary Shaphan, the scribe. She collaborated with him on composing much of the Psalms. Though biblical authors apparently worked in teams, HULDAH is linked to specific words, verses, passages, and often whole chapters of Scripture.”
Her prophetic influence and scholarship was instrumental in shaping Deuteronomistic history. Her ministry among the patriarchal leaders of her day conveys three things: she consulted with authority regularly, she was renowned in scholarship and she was known for biblical teaching in ‘right conduct’. Her impartial, prophetic influence affected change within her socio-political milieu. In essence, she courageously spoke truth to power - characteristics of which, are necessary when engaging African American bishops, pastors and clergy in therapeutic work.