Address issues such as:
The MFLC Program provides non-medical counseling, consultation and outreach services to more than 200 military installations or nearby civilian communities located in most all of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories and commonwealths, and over 25 foreign countries including areas considered hazardous duty/danger zones.
The MFLC Program provides non-medical counseling, consultation and outreach services to more than 200 military installations or nearby civilian communities located in most all of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories and commonwealths, and over 25 foreign countries including areas considered hazardous duty/danger zones.
MFLCs provide support to individuals, couples, families, and groups for a range of issues including, but not limited to, deployment stress, reintegration, relocation adjustment, separation, anger management, conflict resolution, parenting, parent-child communication, relationship/family issues, coping skills, homesickness, and grief and loss.
MFLCs provide support to individuals, couples, families, and groups for a range of issues including, but not limited to, deployment stress, reintegration, relocation adjustment, separation, anger management, conflict resolution, parenting, parent-child communication, relationship/family issues, coping skills, homesickness, and grief and loss.
Active-duty service members, National Guard and reserve members (regardless of activation status), Coast Guard members when activated for the Navy, Department of Defense expeditionary civilians (90 days prior to deployment through 180 days post-deployment) and their immediate family members are eligible for services—as well as foreign military members and their families (enrolled in DEERS) and non-remarried surviving spouses and children of active-duty, National Guard and reserve service members, regardless of activation status and cause of death of the service member. Veterans and their immediate families are eligible up to 180 days past separation from the military.
The MFLC Program can provide a source of assistance in addressing issues encountered by military families. MFLC's provide support to individuals, couples, families, and groups for a range of issues including, but not limited to, deployment stress, reintegration, relocation adjustment, separation, anger management, conflict resolution, parenting, parent-child communication, relationship/family issues, coping skills, homesickness, and grief and loss.
However, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, depression or other medical and mental health disorders are outside the scope of MFLC support. Situations meeting the diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, such as those found in the current edition of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” are not authorized for support. Participants needing treatment for these conditions will be referred via a warm handoff to behavioral health providers, TRICARE, military treatment facilities or other providers of professional mental health services as appropriate.
Other identified needs may result in referral and resource information being provided. Non-medical Counseling, Consultation and Outreach Support is private and confidential, apart from mandatory state, federal and military duty-to-warn reporting requirements.
Eligible participants may receive up to 12 sessions of non-medical counseling per issue through in-person, telephone, or virtually.
All counselors must have a master's or doctorate degree in a mental health-related field, such as social work, psychology, marriage and family therapy or counseling. Counselors must also possess a valid unrestricted counseling license or certification from a state, the District of Columbia, a U.S. commonwealth, or a U.S. territory that grants authority to provide counseling services as an independent practitioner in their respective field or be provisionally licensed and pursuing an independent practitioner license.