For PCA Teaching Elder Wives
A place to connect
and be known.
Through the Cherish benefit, care is within reach — made for the life you live.
The Rest Initiative
Counselors who know this world
from the inside.
The Rest Initiative is a faith-informed care organization with a team of over 40 credentialed counselors. Many of our counselors have deep roots in ministry life — as pastors' wives, ministry leaders, and women who have served in church contexts for years. Several hold degrees from Reformed Theological Seminary and Covenant Theological Seminary. They chose this work because they know what it means to need care and not always know where to find it.
You won't need to explain the culture or the unspoken expectations of the world you're in. That context is already here.
Our care is Biblically grounded and clinically informed — it takes your faith seriously and brings real clinical skill to whatever you're carrying.
Individual Counseling
A space that's entirely yours.
Individual counseling through The Rest Initiative is a confidential, one-on-one relationship with a counselor matched to you specifically — based on what you're carrying, what matters to you, and who you are.
People come to us for all kinds of reasons. You might be dealing with:
- — Anxiety, stress, or a sense of being perpetually overwhelmed
- — Grief or loss — expected or not
- — The challenges of parenting, marriage, or family life
- — The particular weight that can come with life in ministry
- — A sense of being lost, depleted, or simply ready for something to change
Whatever brings you here, your counselor brings clinical training, theological fluency, and genuine interest in you — not your role or anyone else's expectations, but you.
All sessions are virtual — from your home, your car, or wherever you can find a quiet hour. No waiting room, no commute. Just care, on your schedule.
Getting Started
How Cherish works.
1
Learn about The Rest Initiative
You're here. Take your time. You can also visit therestinitiative.org to read about our team, our approach, and the counselors you might work with.
2
Complete the Cherish enrollment form
Complete Geneva's Cherish enrollment form, letting them know you'd like to work with The Rest Initiative.
3
Geneva notifies The Rest Initiative
Once your eligibility is confirmed and you've selected The Rest Initiative as your provider, Geneva notifies our intake team. You'll hear from us shortly after.
4
Complete our intake paperwork
Our intake team will send you our intake paperwork, which includes a counselor preference form — a few questions about what you're carrying and what matters to you in a counselor.
5
Choose your counselor
After reviewing your intake form, our team will send you 2–3 counselors who are a strong fit — with bios and availability so you can choose who feels right. Once you decide, your counselor will reach out to schedule your first session.
6
Begin care
Your Cherish benefit covers your first 3 sessions in full. Sessions 4–6 include a $60 copay, with Cherish covering the rest. After 6 sessions, you and your counselor can talk through options for continuing care together.
A Note From Neal
"I have spent the better part of my career walking alongside pastors and their families. And one of the things I've seen clearly over the years is that the wives carry an enormous amount — often quietly, often without anyone naming it or asking how they're really doing.
What Geneva and Cherish have built — a benefit designed specifically to see and care for teaching elder wives — is the kind of intentional, sustained investment in this community that is long overdue.
We are honored to be a part of it. Our team is here for you — not to fix anything, but to walk with you. Please don't hesitate to reach out."
Neal Salzman
Founder & Executive Director, The Rest Initiative
neal@therestinitiative.org
You don't have to keep
carrying this alone.
Reach out to the Geneva Cherish team to activate your benefit and take the first step toward care that's specifically for you.
Contact Geneva to Begin →wellbeing@genevabenefits.org · 678.825.1276
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