The Faith Based Institute - House of Discipleship is faith based residential program for men. Our transitional housing program is for men to overcome homelessness, parole, probation and drug addiction in a comfortable and loving home environment. The program ranges from 6 to 12 months, however one may choose to stay longer for further training once the program is completed.

Our goal is to transform the lives of those who are trapped by the deception of drugs and reintegrate them back into society as contributing citizen & disciples for our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ. We welcome the opportunity to earn your trust and deliver the best Faith Based Initiative-service of its kind. 

For more information, contact Pastor Jackson at (210) 842-4969.

The Faith Based Institute - Sarah's House is faith based residential program for women. Our transitional housing program is for women to overcome homelessness, parole, probation and drug addiction in a comfortable and loving home environment. The program ranges from 6 to 12 months, however one may choose to stay longer for further training once the program is completed.

Our goal is to transform the lives of those who are trapped by the deception of drugs and reintegrate them back into society as contributing citizen & disciples for our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ. We welcome the opportunity to earn your trust and deliver the best Faith Based Initiative-service of its kind. 

For more information, contact Tena Jackson at (210) 782-4321.

Course participants will gain a thorough understanding of the emotion of anger as it relates to learned behavior, brain chemistry and subconscious imagery. Topics include: identifying and defining negative emotions, sources of anger, mind-brain connections, anger logs, addiction cycles, wrong strategies, methods for controlling anger, relationship types, the importance of a higher power, insightful concepts and tools for overcoming negative anger.

Life Skills for Living's Anger Management class is Bexar County Court approved.

Must be at least 12 years old.

• Six-hour Saturday accelerated class: $60
• Introductory Class: $77
• One-on-one in-person class: $77 session. (The number of sessions is determined by the client and facilitator).
• Two-hour group class: $25 per class. (Four classes are typically required to complete the program.)
• Six-hour online Anger Management class: $72.

Club Morgan is a group-based program for members to create social, recreational, and inclusive opportunities for individuals of all abilities who are 16 or older. Members will form friendships while participating in a variety of activities including creative arts, culture, sports, outdoor recreation, and more. Club Morgan will offer monthly programming where Volunteer Partners and Participants can sign-up to attend via GivePulse.

Club Morgan was created to provide more opportunities for individuals with all abilities to come together and build lifelong friendships. As with many other social gatherings in the community, not all are inclusive for individuals to participate or feel safe and comfortable. We want to be a part of that change and make a difference.

For individuals of all abilities who are 16 or older. 

Provides senior adults, 60 years and older, and spouses, in Bexar County, with a nutritionally balanced lunchtime meal in a congregate setting with supportive services consisting of:

• Companionship
• Nutrition Education
• Basic Health Screenings
• Social Services
• Outreach activities
• Recreation and Dance
• Computer Classes*
• Arts and Crafts
• Exercise Classes*
• Transportation*

*Not available at all centers.

The SNP is funded by the City and the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) through the Alamo Area Council of Governments (AACOG), and currently offered at various senior centers throughout the City.

Age 60+ and spouse.

Free.

The Miller's Pond Community Center offers a wide variety of programming, including youth sports leagues, arts and crafts, table games, nutrition education, dance, music, and more.

Amenities:

• Community Center (All)
• Gym (Large)
• Multi-purpose room (Large)

Amenities are first come, first serve with some exceptions.

Alcohol is prohibited.

Click here to view and register for classes at this location. (If there are no results for classes at this location, a list of classes, programs, and activities at alternate locations will be provided.)

Grades 3-5:

Girls on the Run inspires girls of all abilities to recognize their individual strengths, while building a sense of connection in a team setting. At the end of the season, the team completes a 5K together, which provides a tangible sense of accomplishment and sets a confident mindset into motion.

Grades 3-5:

Girls on the Run inspires girls of all abilities to recognize their individual strengths, while building a sense of connection in a team setting. At the end of the season, the team completes a 5K together, which provides a tangible sense of accomplishment and sets a confident mindset into motion.

Helping Hands is a pre-vocational day habilitation program that serves higher-functioning adults with special needs who need a place to grow, develop skills, and establish life-long friendships. Helping Hands offers daily tasks and activities to adults who have intellectual and developmental challenges. Together, we serve our church, our community, and one another.

Helping Hands provides opportunities that bring purpose and dignity to youth and adults who have intellectual and developmental challenges. These opportunities encompass spiritual growth, education, fellowship, and service to God and our community. 

Each day at Helping Hands is filled with service, fun, and fellowship! Our tasks are geared toward serving others and many of them promote independent living skills. In addition to our tasks and activities, we eat out at area restaurants and go bowling regularly. Physical activity is also a part of our day.

This program is for higher functioning adults with special needs.

ScarTissue - a life group initially for blended families but opened to all. We will be focusing on how Jesus has healed our damaged hearts, relationships, and lives. Though the Christ-centered healing our scars are testimonies to minister to the hurting, the lost, and the truth seekers.

Click here to register.

Beyond Cana® offers the time and tools to enrich and strengthen marriages — with God and His direction for us at the center. This 2½-day retreat is designed to improve the marriages of couples who want to focus on the communication, respect, love, and intimacy integral to a good marriage.

A blend of spiritual and practical talks, reflection, and prayer are combined with valuable tools designed to improve communication and your relationship with your spouse — even if it’s good now. All this is done from a Catholic perspective, with an understanding of marriage as a sacrament.

Click here for information on the next retreat, dates, and fees.

If you are in doubt, your marriage can survive; survive indifference, anger, adultery, alcoholism or other addictions, abuse, or selfishness. The list goes on and on of all the signs and symptoms of a marriage communication breakdown that is now resulting in over 50% of first marriages ending in divorce in this country.

Our answer to your doubt is: let us help. The word Retrouvaille simply means "Rediscovery." This Catholic program offers those of you in troubled and painful marriages the chance to rediscover yourself, your spouse, and a loving relationship in your marriage. 

For information call 830-612-2035 or click here.

A group for married couples that discuss various topics about daily life while enjoying a light meal together.

For more info, contact Rose Marie & Efrain Ponce.

Couples therapy (sometimes referred to as marriage counseling) is for partners in a relationship, married or not. The goal of couples therapy is to improve the relationship.

This type of therapy helps couples decide whether they should continue to stay together. Although couples therapy focuses on the couple, sometimes one or both parties’ psychological issues need addressing.

Therapy often includes sessions designed to improve problem-solving, build communication skills, and identify life goals and relationship responsibilities. Other common issues are infidelity, financial problems, illness, and other life changes – as well as anger.

I offer both Gottman's Method of Counseling and Emotionally Focused Therapy.

I am currently in-network with:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Cigna
• Tricare
• Tricare East
• Aetna
• Out-of-network
• Private Pay

What is Discernment Counseling?

Discernment counseling is a short-term therapy (five sessions or fewer) designed to help couples on the brink of divorce gain clarity and confidence about deciding on a direction for their marriage.

Couples decide whether they’d like to stay in the marriage as-is, pursue a divorce, or reconcile and repair the relationship.

What makes Discernment counseling powerful is that it meets spouses where they are.

This form of counseling honors the fact that one spouse is “leaning out” or unsure of the marriage while the other spouse is “leaning in” or wanting to make the marriage work.

Couples openly explore their problems.

• Discernment counseling lasts up to five sessions. At the end of every session, the couple decides whether they’d like to return for the next session.
• In each session, the counselor meets with the couple for about 45 minutes. Then, each partner meets individually with the counselor for about 30 minutes.
• Most couples find the format of both conjoint and individual sessions quite relieving and useful because it allows them to bring up issues together and discuss how they feel about them.
• Individually, they explore how they contributed to the problem and what they need to correct the problem.

Many factors lead couples to consider divorce.
Nobody gets married hoping to be divorced one day.

Unfortunately, people change. When hardships occur, many couples find themselves faced with deciding if divorce is the next step for them.

The reasons couples consider divorce may be as simple as personality conflicts that seem irreconcilable to cases of abuse.

I am currently in-network with:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Cigna
• Tricare
• Tricare East

What is group counseling?

Group counseling is a very positive experience for most people because the therapist and group members build a safe place to explore the problems surrounding their relationships.

Through the sharing process, members develop a level of trust that allows them to be honest, open with one another, and accept each other despite any faults.

Group counseling usually is effective because members behave in ways that reflect how they are outside of the group. Other members can support the individual by changing those unproductive patterns through feedback.

I am currently in-network with:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Cigna
• Tricare
• Tricare East

What is individual counseling?

Individual counseling (sometimes called psychotherapy, talk therapy, or treatment) is a process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.

The counseling focuses on everyday issues that come with development – issues where a helping hand or leg-up would resolve the issue before it became a problem.

Counseling seeks to help people before the problem becomes heightened or when the problem becomes overwhelming.

Individual counseling’s expectation is to…

• Help improve the relationships between two people.
• Typically, the relationship is a critical part of what makes counseling successful.
• Counselors assist individuals with expressing emotions, solving personal problems, and understanding oneself better.
• They also offer support and resources.

I am currently in-network with:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Cigna
• Tricare
• Tricare East

Recovery from an affair is hard.

After an affair has happened, the challenge becomes recovery.

Is it possible to put the past behind you when the past includes you or your partner’s affair?

Recovery after upsetting events is a skill set that all couples need – one that they especially need to use after the trauma of infidelity.

The good news is that full recovery, even after long-standing or multiple affairs, is possible. Ideally, recovery ends up with everyone having learned and grown.

Does counseling help with recovery?

The aftermath of betrayal can be long and painful. Healing after an affair might seem to be a harrowing task.

Working with a trained counselor helps with surviving infidelity.

Counseling is an effective way to recover after an affair. Through counseling, both partners regain trust in one another.

So, if you ask, does a marriage survive infidelity, or does marriage counseling work in healing from infidelity in marriage? The answer is yes, but only if you are determined to do the work!

Deceiver – explore your relationship.

• Understanding and clarifying personal decisions and problems in the marriage need to be explored by both partners.
• Become aware of the deeper problems within yourself and your marriage and commit to making active changes.
• You need to understand if there was a long-standing sense of inadequacy that the affair partner soothed.
• Did underlying anger regarding your partner cause your marital distance? Was there insufficient prioritizing of the marriage?

The Deceived needs to heal from the betrayal.

• Recovery for the Deceived begins with healing the pain caused by the marital breach itself. Healing begins when the Deceiver expresses genuine compassion for the pain that the betrayal has caused.
• Demonstrating real empathy over the pain and hurt created by the Deceiver helps prevent long-term resentment by the betrayed partner.
• Over time, the betrayed spouse/partner must explore their feelings of shock, rage, hurt, confusion, and sadness. A safe place allows the betrayed spouse/partner to be heard and listened to by the Deceiver.
• Clarity regarding how and why the affair happened needs exploration while using empathy and support.

I am currently in-network with:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Cigna
• Tricare
• Tricare East

Grades 3-5:

Girls on the Run inspires girls of all abilities to recognize their individual strengths, while building a sense of connection in a team setting. At the end of the season, the team completes a 5K together, which provides a tangible sense of accomplishment and sets a confident mindset into motion.

A community of women meets weekly to walk/run, fellowship, and share life and faith.  WE WILL STRIVE TO Walk or Run each Session with a Fun 5K Benefit.

Our Mission is Fighting for Healthy Bodies and Souls and causes close to our Hearts.

Women.

We meet at the Cracked Mug Coffee House, 14743 Old Bandera Rd #1, Helotes, TX 78023, on Saturday mornings at 8:00 AM.

Click here for more information and registration.

Community Night allows young adults to explore a relationship with Jesus through worship, teaching, and community.

All are welcome no matter where you are in your spiritual journey!

Young Adults from 18 - 25 years of age.

All are welcome no matter where you are in your spiritual journey!

Free.

This group is for wives dealing with betrayal that comes from discovering their spouse's sexual sin/addiction. Due to the sensitive nature of this group, we ask that you register before showing up.

We will primarily use the L.I.F.E. program and material from Dr. Douglas Weiss that is tailored specifically for wives' healing.

Women. This is a virtual meeting and this group is open to new members.

Click here for more information and registration.

Free.

The purpose of this circle is to provide meals for those experiencing significant life events. We will also have a potluck once a month on a Sunday evening to share in some community together and pray for one another.

If you love to cook for others, this is the circle for you!

SERVICES ARE LIVE STREAMED ON SUNDAY AT 10 AM. Click here to follow this link.

Men & Women. This group is open to new members.

Free.

Young at Heart is a group for ages 45 and up. They meet twice a month for a potluck and also a game day. 

We're an active, lively bunch with a lot of fun together. Join us for community and laughs! 

Our community lunch is on the 2nd Monday of the month at 11:00 AM. 
Our game day is the 4th Monday of the month at 10:00 AM. 

We're currently working on some EVENING MEETING OPTIONS for those who work during the day! Stay tuned for more information! 

Men and Women 45 and older. This group is open to new members.

Click here for more information and registration.

Free.

Grades 6-8:

Our Heart & Sole middle school program meets the unique needs of girls of all abilities in 6th-8th grade. The program considers the whole person - body, brain, heart, spirit and social connection. Heart & Sole offers an inclusive place of belonging, where girls feel supported and inspired to explore their emotions, cultivate empathy and strengthen their physical and emotional health. At the end of the season, all program participants complete a 5K.

Behavioral Innovations offers personalized ABA services and autism diagnostic assessment services for children with autism.

Our centers offer evidence-based interventions and are staffed by experienced professionals committed to helping your child reach their fullest potential.

If you have been looking for a nearby school for autism, take the first step towards a brighter future for your child and contact us today.

Click here to learn more.

Click here to schedule an evaluation.

At Behavioral Innovations, we accept most major insurance plans. Our experienced insurance specialists can assist you through this complex insurance journey. Click here for the list of insurances we accept.

The PFLAG Chapter Network, with over 400 chapters across the country, provides confidential peer support, education, and advocacy to LGBTQ+ people, their parents and families, and allies.

PROUD PEOPLE

PFLAG is working to make sure that all people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer are not only valued by society, but take pride in and value themselves. We do this by providing peer-to-peer support, educating people on the issues that are important to the community, and advocating for inclusive policies and laws.

LOVING FAMILIES

Family support and acceptance are critical to the health and wellbeing of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer...and PFLAG has been at the forefront of this work for over four decades. Find out more about how we have been supporting thousands of families across the country and around the world, and the ways in which we can provide that support to your family.

SAFE COMMUNITIES

People who are LGBTQ and their families deserve to be safe and secure, no matter where they live, work, study, pray or play. Through our mission of support, education, and advocacy, PFLAG works to make sure that all communities provide this type of security, and have the resources needed to help those communities thrive.

DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE WORLD

PFLAG's vision is to create a world where difference is celebrated, and all people are valued inclusive of their sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. Our mission of support, education, and advocacy guides our work on this important goal.

For the national PFLAG website, click here. 

For PFLAG San Antonio, click here. 

Grades 3-5:

Girls on the Run inspires girls of all abilities to recognize their individual strengths, while building a sense of connection in a team setting. At the end of the season, the team completes a 5K together, which provides a tangible sense of accomplishment and sets a confident mindset into motion.

Endeavors offers a free parenting enrichment program for all veterans, National Guardsmen, reserve, and active military parents with children 0 -17 years who are interested in cultivating and understanding their own parenting style. Classes include take-home resources, skills, and techniques during each session.

During each session, our goal is to:

• Build strong, healthy relationships
• Provide positive change for problem behaviors
• Prepare for school achievement
• Reduce family stress

Couples Therapy:

Couples therapy is a process during which couples of all types recognize and resolve problems. Couples often say that they wish they had come to therapy sooner. Setting aside time to address the concerns within your relationship often improves communication, respect, and intimacy. Our providers are LGBTQIA and gender non-conforming allies and we welcome couples wishing to improve their relationship.

We offer Couples Counseling services through both Telehealth and in-office.

We are currently in-network with:

• United Healthcare
• Oscar
• Optum 
• Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
• Aetna PPO 
• Tricare East
• We are not considered in-network with any HMO plans

All providers offer a private pay fee and many providers offer reduced, sliding scale fees for those with financial need.