Samaritan Counseling Center Relocates Hamilton Offices

(Hamilton, NY – July 2014) James Goldstein, MS, MAC, CASAC, LMFT, New York State LIcensed Marriage and Family Therapist, announced recently that the satellite office of Samaritan Counseling Center of the Mohawk Valley, Inc., recently relocated to 3-5 Madison St., Second Floor, Suite 1, in the village of Hamilton.

Goldstein said the satellite office, which operated at the 20 Utica St. location formerly, has relocated the private practice and satellite office to 3-5 Madison Street after 20 years in the village at the former Parry’s Hardware and Radio Shack.

Samaritan Counseling Center is a private, nonprofit 501(c) corporation that provides counseling services with a spiritual dimension to individuals, couples and families. The agency is supported by insurance reimbursement, fees and donations. The agency has its main office in Utica but also operates satellite locations in Rome, Herkimer and Hamilton, and serves a seven-county region.

The Hamilton satellite office provides counseling services to residents of Madison, Oneida, Herkimer, Otsego and Chenango counties.

Goldstein said he originally opened the private practice in 1994 due to the lack of counseling services for residents of southern Madison County and northern Chenango County. Goldstein joined Samaritan Counseling Center in 1998 as the coordinator of family therapy services after previously working as executive director for Syracuse Jewish Family Service, Rome Family Service and Madison County Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (MCCASA).

The Samaritan satellite office opened in 1999.

Goldstein said his private practice will continue to operate at the new location along with Samaritan Counseling Center. Services provided will include individual, couples and family therapy, child and adolescent services for behavioral, school and mental health issues, depression and anxiety, evaluations for family court, impaired driver evaluations for criminal court and the DMV and ongoing services to active duty and service members including Military One Source EAP counseling options.

According to Goldstein, the Samaritan Counseling Center accepts most insurance plans and charges along a sliding scale. Referral sources include schools, physicians, parents, clergy and churches, other agencies, local attorneys and local/regional Employee Assistance Programs.

For more information, call 315.824.5016 or 315.724.5173.