About us

About Us

Helping Ministry's mission is to bring people together through honest dialogue.

Helping Ministry offers:
Relationship Counseling
A Course in Miracles
Study Groups
Bible Sharing
Services including marriage, transitional, grieving and any other prayerful need

Since we see you from a healthy perspective, we can design our counseling from a communications standpoint. Our process provides support and a way to experience intimacy.

Counseling continues until your goals are met.
It is not our purpose to change your beliefs but to help you identify and share them with each other.

Helping Ministry was founded in May 2001.
It is a member of The Association for the Integration of the Whole Person, (AIWP)
a non-profit organization (#95-3455451)

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Helping Ministry offers pastoral counseling.
Help with dealing with life's challenges.
We see you as well instead of determining what is wrong with you.
It is not mental health counseling
(please see Life Transitions
for mental health illnesses).

Communicating effectively is often the missing link. Fear is what keeps us apart and results in pain and suffering while love requires us to respect and trust one another.

Jim De Maio	If you want to develop your relationships then you will find much help in the programs I have developed at Helping Ministry. This may be with spouse, children, co-workers/managers, second marriage including the special challenge of bringing children together from different parents into a new household.
	I believe that most challenges in life stem from some form of relationship confusion. Pastoral counseling is designed to help you talk about it and see more clearly. I like to call it relationship counseling. That is why I asked AIWP to ordain me as a relationship counselor.

I am trained in communication skills (MS in personal counseling) and have been working with people for thirty years since graduating from Wright State's counseling program.
Our formal communication model was designed to help you overcome the fear.

Jim De Maio holds a Masters Degree in Mental Health counseling and is a Certified Addictions Professional with the Florida Certification Board. He was born and raised on Long Island where he completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy at Stonybrook University (SUNY). His masters degree was earned in 1980 from Wright State in Dayton Ohio. Jim was ordained a minister by AIWP in 2001.

Jim is also the owner of Life Transitions, Inc., a group private practice established in 1989, providing chemical dependency and mental health counseling services.

His book, Helping Not Fixing, was written as a manual in learning the difference between enabling and truly helping others.