about us

Welcome to our website.  The director of Eller Counseling is Benjamin L. Eller, Jr. (Ben).  Ben attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, graduated magna cum laude from International Seminary, Plymouth Florida with a Bachelor of Theology and also Masters degree in Counseling. Ben also holds a BS in Computer Science and Master of Divinity. He attended his CPE at North Carolina Baptist Hospital which is now part of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. He is currently enrolled in a Doctorate program. Ben is a member of AACC and MHASP. In addition, Ben has been an ordained minister for over 30 years, including nearly 20 years of pastoral work in Indiana, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.  Ben and his wife also served as Southern Baptist home missionaries in Erie, Pennsylvania.

During his years as a pastor, Ben also served as a pastoral counselor and therapist. The last 14 years he has worked in family, marriage and child behavioral counseling (including working with blended family groups). Since 2003, Ben has worked in the BHRS program providing masters level therapy in southern Lancaster County and southern Chester County.  He currently works with the Penn Psychiatric Center team.

Ben also shares a proud experience with the Department of the Army, where among other opportunities he wrote technical manuals and provided oversight of other Ordnance programs. He has also served as long-term substitute teacher for the Harford County, Maryland school system.

His motto is ‘lighting your way’.  At times Ben “felt so helpless to reach those with developmental and emotional issues in life from the pulpit” and felt led to provide more intense counseling so that people could find the healing that God wants in their lives. Ben brings a pastor’s heart to his counseling that is both disarming and comforting, yet challenging. He truly loves working with families and children. As a former pastor, he is sensitive to the fact that at times parents can be overwhelmed with meeting the constant requirements a special needs child creates. He speaks to churches and local groups, conducts blended family and counseling seminars upon invitation.         » Read More

news & announcements

Does Summer Heat Increase Anxiety?

Does the extreme heat of the summer increase anxiety? It doesn't take much to check out the many forums and blogs on the internet about anxiety to find people asking that very same question. Even so, there doesn't seem to be much (if any) medical literature on the subject, but for those that experience an increase in symptoms, it doesn't matter if there is documentation to back up what they know happens to them during the heat of the summer.   To read more from an article by Eileen Bailey go to http://www.healthcentral.com/anxiety/c/22705/113588/increase-anxiety

Safe Harbor
Now with offices in Chester and Lancaster Counties.

Recent conversation with director and founder, Erik Sundquist, reveals that Safe Harbor Counseling now has a Lancaster County office at 1655 Manheim Pike, Suite OB2, Lancaster, PA 17601; Phone: 717-945-7570.   There is also a Chester County office at 800 Fairview Road, Glenmoore, PA 19343.   That is in addition to the close by York County, Delaware County as well as Wilmington and Newark, DE offices.  Click the link above for more information.    

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