NEW COUNSELING SERVICE OPENS

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Rainbow Counseling services opened here recently.

The new business, which offers Christian counseling along with drug abuse and other counseling, is located at 1440 Kurre Lane, and is open six days a week by appointment.

"We'll be offering a variety of services," said Betty Statler, M. A., L.P.C., who opened the service. "We'll offer diagnosis services and social evaluations for schools, agencies, industries, and courts."

Other services, she said, include individual counseling for a wide range of emotional disturbances, family and marital counseling, stress management, depression, and drug and alcohol prevention counseling.

Statler, a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, has a master's degree in psychological counseling, and is a National Certified Counselor. She is also a registered nurse at Southeast Missouri Hospital as well as nursing coordinator for the university and Show Me Center.

Statler has experience working with rape/sexual assault, co-dependency, substance abuse and domestic violence. She has been an instructor for a parenting skill class.

Working with Statler in the new service are Ruth Ann Ford and Annie M. Schumacher.

Schumacher recently received her master of arts in phychological counseling. She also holds a master of arts in education and a bachelor of arts in phychology. Her experience includes working with children, and consulting.

She worked with the Bootheel Mental Health Center at Sikeston as a parenting group leader. She is certified as an active parenting group leader.

Schumacher taught for a number of years in the Kansas City and Sikeston areas, both in public and private schools. She is the mother of seven children. She is a member of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Cape Girardeau, and is a qualified Precepts Bible Study Leader.

Ford is a graduate of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, with a master's in education. She also completed a certificate program in marriage and family therapy at Washington University in St. Louis, and has completed an internship at St. Anthony's Hospital, and Hyland Center at St. Louis, working in drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

She previously worked as a social service director in a residential care facility, and as a social worker at Missouri Baptist Children's Home in St. Louis.

Ford and her husband, Bill Ford, have three children and nine grandchildren.