PADUCAH, Ky. (KT) – A faith-based therapeutic and counseling company in west Kentucky will bring another branch of help and healing to the Kentucky Mission Corps Service Missionary family of the Kentucky Baptist Convention.
The Papillion Center in Paducah, a fully licensed non-profit company, brings expertise in mental health with faith as its base, said Executive Director Erin Goodman, LCSW. It has therapists who are licensed through statewide boards.
“I personally think there is a lot of uniqueness to the services we provide,” she said. “We have something more unique and unfortunately not more common throughout our state. We are happy to be part of providing that. There is a scientific method to it. It has been tested and proven. It is something that bridges the gap between church and science. They don’t have to be so opposite. We are 100 percent believers and use theory and scientific methods with our faith as a base. It’s God who brings help and healing.”
The agreement to be a Kentucky MSC missionary is a full circle moment for Goodman, who related a story that when she was 17 or 18, she walked the aisle at First Baptist Church in Paducah and surrendered to be a missionary…