InterAct offers individual, marital and familial counsel to pastors, their spouses and children in an environment of confidentiality and compassion. We employ a balanced perspective in terms of the integration between spiritual and emotional health. Our commitment is to strengthen, support and equip pastors via counseling, workshops/seminars, and organizational consulting pertaining to the challenges facing today’s ministry.

We assist pastors in understanding and resolving the complex emotional, relational, spiritual and ethical issues associated with stress, depression, anxiety, boundary problems, sexual misconduct/harassment, distress and disruptive behavior, professional burnout, mid-life crisis, transition/adjustment issues, ethical professional judgment, substance abuse/dependence, eating disorders, and compulsive behaviors.

We assist pastors in understanding and resolving the complex emotional, relational, spiritual and ethical issues associated with stress, depression, anxiety, boundary problems, sexual misconduct/harassment, distress and disruptive behavior, professional burnout, mid-life crisis, transition/adjustment issues, ethical professional judgment, substance abuse/dependence, eating disorders, and compulsive behaviors.

Our staff incorporates a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, systemic assessment targeting five psychological and organizational levels:

  1. Interpersonal – i.e. the emotional, spiritual, relational and trauma-related dynamics impacting the pastor’s behavior or thought life
  2. Interpersonal complications within the marriage, family or religious community within which the pastor lives
  3. Interpersonal conflict or struggles within the church
  4. Organizational dynamics within the church/parish
  5. Complicating organizational features within the denomination

Pertaining to sex addictive issues within the pastorate (whether private and concealed or public and facing charges for misconduct), our president, Chris Charleton has served as a personal advisor to churches, church/denominational boards, and large scale Christian organizations since 1995. As a nationally recognized Christian sex addiction specialist and featured speaker regarding marital deterioration, Mr. Charleton offers comprehensive assessment, treatment and restorative programs for pastors, their wives and families at any stage of crisis.

Organizationally, our concern is the health and maturation of the church. Correspondingly, we assist church elders, boards and disciplinary teams in the management of crises associated with sexual misconduct. Our goal is to:

  • Help preserve the safety and integrity of congregants
  • Minimize damage associated with pending lawsuits and complications with the press
  • Facilitate organizational understanding leading to forgiveness and restoration as a church body
  • Provide immediate consultation, assessment, treatment and restorative options for those involved in any misconduct including the victims

We also provide organizational consultation regarding problematic interpersonal dynamics and conflicts that thwart pastoral care and church services.

Please review our website for more detailed information. For confidential, non-judgmental, professional, and immediate assistance please contact Christopher Charleton at 585-388-8010.

Testimonial

As the “consummate” pastor, I never realized that there was an unhealed portion of me that was hardened, selfish, distrusting and, in truth, an atheist. Being missions oriented, I could never have suspected that the greatest missionary journey I’d embark on was into the “darkest jungles” of my own heart – the place where the savage, unhealed little boy in me was convinced that God was not a present help in time of need, only “loved” me based on my performance, and truly had never provided the comfort I yearned for my entire life. The intensive, comprehensive, and restorative program that InterAct provided me and my family resurrected not only the parts of us that died because of my behaviors, but also our dreams. Whereas I used to be an empty well with the façade of “God’s chosen”, I truly have become “a cup that overfloweth.”

- Pastor, Massachusetts