The Episcopal Counseling Center

Jerrold F. Beaumont, DD, Ph.D. Cocoa Office Licensed Clinical Social Worker # 7541

   Jerrold moved to Florida in 2001, taking the position of Assisting Priest at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Cocoa after serving the Diocese of Michigan for 28 years.

He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II and is currently Region Chaplin USAF (Aux) with the rank of Ch, Lt. Colonel. Following the War, he studied Mechanical Engineering, holding several management and executive positions in the auto industry during his 20 year career. Responding to a call to pursue a theological education, he studied for the priesthood. He was ordained Deacon and later Priest serving three churches in Michigan.

Nineteen-eighty marked the founding of Faith in Action, initially an outreach program of St. Barnabas, Chelsea, MI designed to serve those in need in the village. It later expanded to serve a wider area and in time became the largest non-government funded human service organization in the county, providing 25 different programs. Jerrold was its founder and Board Chair and later president responsible for day to day operations.

As a result of working closely with the Social Work Department of Chelsea Community Hospital, he developed an intense interest in working with the older population, couples, and veterans. In addition to holding a doctorate in Christian Family Counseling, Jerrold has also received training in Critical Incident Stress Management and Suicide Intervention. Jerrold provided counseling services under contract with the Canadian government and the Province of Ontario to several Bands of First People. He has been a visiting lecturer for the Graduate School of The University of Michigan and for Madonna University, Michigan.

Jerrold enjoys working with people to help them identify the source of their difficulties and guiding them toward healthy solutions. He believes that we need to be helped to understand that we are never alone although we may sometimes have that feeling. He encourages those whom he counsels to consider the whole person; physical, emotional and spiritual together with focusing on an understanding that God can and will work in our lives if we but allow that to happen.