Community Highlights: Meet Jennifer Lewis of Guiding Light Counseling Services

Today we’d like to introduce you to Jennifer Lewis. Them and their team share their story with us below:

Guiding Light Counseling Services, PLLC (GLCS) started as a solo practice in Sterling Heights, Michigan in June 2016 by the Founder and Visionary, Jennifer T. Lewis, LMSW-C, LCSW. As a Clinical Social Worker, Ms. Lewis has worked in the mental health field since 2007 after obtaining her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology at Florida Memorial University and her Master of Social Work in 2013 at Wayne State University.

During the course of her career, she gained clinical experience in Juvenile Justice Mental Health, Substance Abuse Group Counseling, Individual and Family Psychotherapy, Home-Based Therapy, Crisis Intervention, Inpatient Psychiatric Intake & Admissions, Hospital Discharge Planning, Medical and Behavioral Health Utilization Management, Case Management, Medical Social Work, and serving as a professional healthcare consultant in the state of California and Michigan.

Ms. Lewis’ clinical therapeutic specialties include, but are not limited to, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Christian-Based Counseling, and Grief Therapy. GLCS clients found that Ms. Lewis’ therapeutic approach provided them with a safe and inviting space where they could be transparent and freely express their most intimate thoughts, free of judgment or criticism.

Currently, GLCS is a boutique mental health collection with a team of clinical social workers who provide specialized person-centered and strength-based services. Ms. Lewis personally ensures GLCS clinicians promote and utilize only evidence-based approaches and techniques. Our primary goal, as a private practice agency is to provide quality mental health services to vulnerable and at-risk populations throughout the states of Arizona and Michigan which are economically efficient.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Throughout the course of Guiding Light Counseling Services (GLCS) development and growth, we have experienced numerous challenges due to professional and personal obstacles, such as administrative and financial limitations.

Despite these minor setbacks, GLCS executive team learned from entrepreneurial errors and persevered.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
Guiding Light Counseling Services, PLLC is a boutique mental health collection that provides specialized person-centered and strength-based services to those seeking quality mental health and substance abuse counseling. In addition to professional services to those within the mental health field. GLCS offers effective, convenient, and affordable treatment options. As mental health providers, we understand, sometimes, life gets tough. Therefore, we pride ourselves on offering payment plans and reduced rates to ensure your mental health needs are met, despite financial barriers.

GLCS clinicians promote and utilize only evidence-based approaches and techniques when serving our client population. Our primary goal is to assist individuals in developing an individualized plan of service to identify the best treatment approach to meet their individual needs.

If individual desires to address unresolved grief, past trauma, child/adolescent behavioral concerns, chemical dependency, daily stressors, marital conflicts, or family/relational problems contact the GLCS scheduling department at 586.840.8614. Together, GLCS will unveil a clear and simple path to healing; ultimately allowing you to fully enjoy life and make balanced decisions regarding yourself!

What do you think about luck?
The guiding Light Counseling Services (GLCS) executive team does not believe in good luck or bad luck; however, we do believe in Jesus Christ. We believe it is he alone that gives the vision and layout of Guiding Light Counseling Service to Ms. Lewis at the age of 13. She believed in the plan and vision which God give her in the summer of 1998 while at Yale Youth Law Summer Camp.

God played a significant and imperative role in the development in the personal and professional development of Ms. Lewis and who she is today as a person and mental health clinician. As GLCS continues to grow, GLCS as a company and team truly believes that without, God’s grace and mercy, GLCS would not be where we are today as a company.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.glcsmichigan.com/