Pastoral Ministry & Video Sessions

Family & Christian Wellness Center

“We do because we care”

People who are hurting need someone who understands and can help find a path to healing.

Call 940.386.9378 Text 940.386.9378

Call or text to reach out, and we will contact you as soon as possible to arrange a Video Counseling session.

Virtual care

Ways we care for you

All sessions are offered virtually for individuals, couples, and families, honoring your personal, spiritual, and religious belief.

Pastoral Ministry Sessions

Virtual pastoral ministry sessions for individuals, couples, and families who are going through a difficult time. We listen, help identify the challenges you are facing, and create a plan to accomplish your goals.

Individuals · Couples · Families

Video Sessions

Video Ministry brings face-to-face pastoral counsel to you through a computer network. Many people who would not otherwise have access to quality counsel are able to benefit from these virtual sessions.

This pastoral ministry will honor your personal, spiritual, and religious belief, while integrating strategies and technologies to help guide you into complete wellness in mind, body, and soul.

FaceTime · Zoom · Google Chrome · Other video conferencing

Why families reach out

You do not have to carry it alone

  • Going through a difficult time

    Seasons of hurt, loss, and uncertainty are easier to face with someone who will sit with you in them.

  • Emotional and spiritual support

    Support that takes your faith seriously and keeps your spiritual belief at the center of the healing process.

  • Individuals, couples, and families

    Whether you join on your own, as a couple, or as a family, sessions are shaped around the people taking part.

  • A path toward healing and wellness

    Healthy solutions and strategies for present problems, with the goal of wellness in mind, body, and soul.

About & approach

Wellness in mind, body, and soul

Family & Christian Wellness Center helps clients find healthy solutions and strategies for the problems in front of them today.

We believe our clients are “OK,” and we help them use the natural, God-given resources they already have to solve life’s problems. FCWC is committed to helping clients find solutions to the issues they are facing: together we identify the challenges and create a plan to accomplish your goals.

Video Ministry brings sessions to you virtually, so quality pastoral counsel is available wherever you are.

  • Your belief is honored

    We honor each client’s personal, spiritual, and religious belief throughout the healing process.

  • Quality of care

    Walter and Dalena use their training as Pastoral Counselors to ensure the quality of the services provided.

  • Ministry alongside ministry

    Walter is an ordained minister and works with fellow ministers in order to offer exceptional care.

  • Presence, grace, and hope

    A pastoral identity that models unconditional positive regard, presence, grace, and hope.

Staff

Who you will meet

Walter W. Swinhoe, Pastoral Counselor.

Walter W. Swinhoe

Pastoral Counselor

Walter is a Pastoral Counselor, trained to see individuals, couples, and families through difficult times. He is certified as a Fellow through the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.

Before establishing Family & Christian Wellness Center, Walter served as Executive Director at a Pastoral Counseling Center for 20 years. He has more than 22 years of individual, marriage, family, and group counseling experience.

His pastoral identity models unconditional positive regard, presence, grace, and hope.

  • Masters of Divinity, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1990
  • Psychology degree, Texas Tech University, 1985
  • Fellow, American Association of Pastoral Counselors
Dalena Propest, Associate Director.

Dalena Propest

Associate Director · Minister & Wounded Healer

Dalena works under the supervision of Walter Swinhoe. Her faith-centered Wounded Healer mission brings together Christian spiritual principles and the study of the soul’s healing, so that hope, restoration, and well-being can reach those who are broken and wounded.

Her work draws on principles of Transactional Analysis and on Henri Nouwen’s idea that looking honestly at the mental, emotional, and spiritual roots of our struggles is what allows a life to be transformed.

  • Bachelor degree in Christian Ministry, Magna Cum Laude, Wayland Baptist University
  • Biblical Counseling Certificate, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Essential reading

Books by Walter W. Swinhoe

Explore Walter’s books and companion journal through the Family & Christian Wellness Center Square store.

Scheduling & contact

Reach out and we will be in touch

Call or text 940.386.9378 to reach out. We will contact you as soon as possible for a Video Counseling session.

Call 940.386.9378 Text 940.386.9378
Phone
940.386.9378 — call or text
Hours
Monday through Thursday
7 a.m. – 7 p.m. Central Standard Time
Location
Wichita Falls, Texas
Video sessions
Video Ministry via FaceTime, Zoom, Google Chrome, and other video conferencing brings virtual sessions to you wherever you are.

Contact

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If calling or texting is not convenient, use this secure inquiry form to reach Family & Christian Wellness Center. Please do not include urgent or emergency information.

For scheduling, you may also call or text 940.386.9378.