History

The Presbyterian Counseling Center is a joint ministry established and sponsored by six Presbyterian congregations in the Halifax area of Volusia County. The Center seeks to serve persons in the east central Florida community, as well as the members of supporting churches.

We believe counseling which is pastoral in nature offers a caring, accepting atmosphere through which individuals, couples, and families can take positive steps to become more aware of themselves, more sensitive to living in relationships, and more in touch with ways of growing. Through the special relationship with a trained counselor the emotional, spiritual, and relational concerns of life can be identified and sorted as persons discover their own inner resources.

Dan Taylor Jr. - September 6, 1944 to January 13, 2005
D.Min., Pastoral Counselor, Fellow AAPC

Dan was a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and was the founder and first Executive Director of the Presbyterian Counseling Center. He was also a diplomate in the American Psychotherapy Association. Prior to 1986, he was a Pastoral Counselor at the House Next Door in DeLand, Florida, and at the Pastoral Counseling Center of First Presbyterian Church in Maitland, Florida.

Dan served three Presbyterian congregations in North Carolina, Kentucky, and Florida as a pastor. Dan was a graduate of Presbyterian College, Union Theological Seminary and Lousville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, where he received his Doctorate in Pastoral Counseling.

His counseling ministry concentrated on individuals, couples and families focusing on a variety of intra-personal and inter-personal therapeutic concerns; including adjustment disorders, depression, anxiety, life transition and spiritual issues. He has two married sons, a grandson and a granddaughter.