Training and Counseling Center at St. Luke's: About

Founded in 1976 in the basement of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, the Training and Counseling Center has served thousands of Atlantans in critical need of compassionate care and healing through its two-fold mission: Clinical Pastoral Education and Counseling. Today, the Training and Counseling Center (TACC) is an independent nonprofit organization in residence at the historic Edward Gay House on the beautiful campus of St. Luke’s. Click here to view our 2010 Form 990.

Executive Director & CPE Supervisor
The Rev. Miriam A. Needham

Miriam is an ordained United Methodist clergyperson having lived out many years of her ministry providing pastoral care in 3 local Atlanta hospitals (Grady Memorial, Emory University, and Crawford Long) from 1985 to 1997. During this period she was Hospice Chaplain and Bereavement Coordinator (Grady), Director of Staff Support (Emory), and Director of Pastoral Education (Crawford Long). Miriam was certified as a full supervisor by the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) in 1994 and started working with CPE students as a pastoral educator during her supervisory training process. She was appointed Executive Director of TACC in 1997 and is the first non-male, non-Episcopal Priest to hold this position. Central to any description of Miriam is to know of her Salvation Army rootage as a child of Salvation Army Officer parents. It was in the Salvation Army that Miriam learned the vital connection between faith and service.

Administrative & Program Staff
Miriam A. Needham, Executive Director & CPE Supervisor
Mary Catherine Cole, CPE Director & Supervisor
Meg Moye, Clinical Director
Page Gardner, Administrative Director
Anne-Marie Bruton, Counselor

Cecilia Cohen, Counselor

Pat Heflin, Counselor
Dave MacDonald, Counselor

Sanford Pentecost, Counselor

Elizabeth S. Strauss, Counselor

2012 Board of Directors

Russell Currey, Board Chair
Bill Willson, Treasurer
Rod Ganske, Secretary
Miriam A. Needham, Executive Director
Daniel Matthews, Jr., Rector, St. Luke's
Boyce Ansley
James Bland
Boyd Coons
Elaine DeCostanzo
Robert Glenn
Deirdra Glover
Tim Killenberg
Whit Lanier
Robert L. Mays
W. Hampton Morris
Leandrew Tabb