All Souls Counseling Center

All Souls Counseling Center's mission is to serve as a leading nonprofit provider and community partner for quality mental health counseling, outreach, and education with a focus on those who are underinsured and uninsured in Western North Carolina. All Souls Counseling Center was founded in 2000 by community therapists who were concerned when a crisis in accessibility of services occurred following the closing of a mental health facility that served Western North Carolina’s uninsured and underinsured. This closing limited the population being served to those with severe, persistent, and chronic mental illnesses, or to those who qualified for Medicaid. The vast majority of the uninsured or underinsured — those with problems that can be successfully treated without intensive case management or inpatient hospitalization, like depression, anxiety, PTSD, etc. — were left with nowhere to turn. In response, these therapists began providing counseling on a sliding scale fee basis for people with no insurance or who were underinsured at in-kind office space donated by The Cathedral of All Souls. All Souls Counseling Center became an independent 501c3 nonprofit in 2000. Quickly outgrowing the donated space at the Cathedral, All Souls Counseling Center moved to an office at 23 Orange Street near downtown Asheville. As the center continued to grow, it moved again, just down the street to 33 Orange Street. The demand for our services continued to increase, and in 2009, ASCC purchased a large historic house at 35 Arlington Street, providing a permanent home where the majority of our counseling services are offered. Today, ASCC has grown to include 18+ professionally licensed therapists who provide high-quality, compassionate mental health counseling for uninsured and underinsured adults of Western North Carolina. We continue to offer counseling on a sliding-scale fee basis. We have expanded our services to place therapists within partner community organizations to make counseling as accessible as possible.

All Souls Counseling Center is a 501c3 non-profit organization located near Downtown Asheville, providing compassionate mental health counseling, outreach, and education to individuals residing in WNC who either don’t have health insurance or can’t afford therapy with their current insurance. Our licensed therapists offer both in-person and virtual individual and couples counseling services on a sliding scale. We also offer affordable group counseling services on an as-needed basis and have expanded our services to place our therapists within several partner community organizations to meet clients where they’re at and make affordable counseling as accessible as possible.