Jewish Family & Children's Service of Monmouth County — Local services in Asbury Park

I attended Jewish Family and Children Services(Asbury Park,NJ)from October-January the atmosphere was comfortable everyone was welcoming my counselor,Mr.Dannis Billups was the most awesome guy you ever want to meet I felt very comfortable talking to him he has a great sense of humor and he actually”CARED”I couldn’t have got a better counselor but! He was strick about attendance being on time and the classroom rules other than that everything was fine!I want to thank him for everything ❤️!BUT!there’s also another counselor named Mrs.Da’shonda Johnson(sorry Dannis!lol!)but she has a GREAT sense of humor we did a lot of laughing she made the sessions fun!she’s down to earth she didn’t make you feel like she was better then us(because we were in treatment,neither did Mr.Billups) at first I was reluctant of attending(felt as though I didn’t belong there)but as time went by i would look forward to attending it was a family oriented atmosphere AND I and going to miss it!I did one session with Hillary she was awesome also!the receptionist(I don’t know her name)but everyone spoke in passing!I want to thank the Jewish Family and Children Services it was a true experience if I had to do it again(WHICH I’M NOT!!!!)Jewish Family would be my number one choice.I was discharged January 12,2024 Mr.Billups assured me if I ever needed to talk or have and problems he’s there and that’s good to know!!Again thank you Dannis and Da’shonda❤️❤️ Thank you...

I was referred to Jewish family services 4 months ago, at first I was reluctant when they told me I would be attending IOP 3x a week, but tried to go in with a positive attitude. Over the course of several weeks, my attitude shifted from not wanting to go into looking forward to my groups. The staff is excellent from the front desk to the counselors. Deshonda was great and my counselor Dannis helped me work through a lot of personal things that I’d been avoiding for years, to my surprise. All in all I feel like I truly got something out of this program, groups were more based on personal dialogue rather than just putting on a video and leaving the class to watch. Never left group feeling worse than when I arrived....

If you’re going for counseling this for me was the best experience! Denis Bilups was really there for me and the group meetings on Wednesday morning were great he really knew how to control the room and have people unlock their emotions that you wouldn’t even think some of these people had. I found out a lot about myself and grew as a person for the better. The evening meetings I wasn’t so fond of Denis didn’t do them was other people. Seemed like the people who didn’t take it seriously went in the evening just to get it over with. But I would highly recommend going to Jewish family center and definitely attending Wednesday morning groups with Denis, he makes it personal and his method works and I’m...