2009 Mary Corre Foster
Outstanding Community Counselor Award
Richard “Dick” Donnenwirth

Prior to 40 years of providing Pastoral Counseling to the Greater Cincinnati Community, Dick Donnenwirth earned a B.A. From Ohio Wesleyan University, an S.T.B. and an M.A. From Boston University and pursued doctoral studies at the latter. Currently he is a member of the adjunct faculty in the Athenaeum of Ohio’s Master of Arts in Pastoral Counseling Department.

After starting a Pastoral Counseling Center at Bethesda Hospital, he became the principle founder of the Professional Pastoral-Counseling Institute, Inc. in Kenwood specialties in personality disorders, PTSD, physical challenges and couple counseling.

Dick is a retired United Methodist Minister, a PCC-S and a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. He is also a long time member of the Ohio Counseling Association and the Greater Cincinnati Counseling Association.

A former student of Dick Donnenwirth remarked, “Dick modeled for me the role of the counselor during my training at the Athenaeum of Ohio. He helped me to understand the significance of the counseling relationship to effect change. At the same time he demonstrated confidence in his work as a counselor, he also displayed a sense of humility….that the transformative power of counseling transcends the humanity of the persons in the counseling relationship. I am very grateful for Dick’s dedication to my training and development, and the education of future counselors.”