About Us
Since 1972, North Carolina Baptist Hospitals’ network of pastoral counseling centers has been developing across North Carolina. Twenty-one offices are now in operation.
Each of the community-based counseling centers is supported by a local board of directors composed of community corporate, professional, and religious leaders. CareNet is a wholly-owned subsidiary of North Carolina Baptist Hospitals. Its sole mission is to provide high quality pastoral counseling and behavioral health services to clients and be a resource to the community that enhances mental/spiritual health.
A few facts about CareNet:
- CareNet has over thirty-five certified counselors and psychotherapists. Many are ordained, certified pastoral counselors. Other disciplines represented include clinical psychologists, licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers and substance abuse counselors. A high value is placed on integrated interdisciplinary approaches to treatment.
- CareNet’s clinical staff are mature and seasoned counselors. The typical counselor has been in professional practice more than 10 years.
- All medically necessary treatment is supervised by licensed supervisors from a variety of mental health disciplines.
- CareNet clinicians are licensed by the state of North Carolina for their respective professional field.
- CareNet will provide approximately 24,500 hours of outpatient individual, marital, family, and group counseling in 2006.
- CareNet is serving clients in eighty-eight North Carolina counties and in five adjoining states.
- CareNet has implemented and maintains a rigorous credentialing process for all its clinical employees
- All CareNet centers are accredited by the Samaritan Institute, a national trade organization dedicated to quality measures for pastoral counseling centers.