North Way Counseling Services

May 2024

Pros: Northway is a great church with many opportunities and ministries available for all ages. The music is outstanding and services are transforming. Greeters and ushers are extremely welcoming and the prayer teams after service do a nice job. The safety team does a great job at protecting the campus at all times and I felt extremely safe going to Northway. Cons: The church statement and beliefs. Northway is a great church overall, but I confess we left extremely hurt. Everything was going well until we asked the Wexford campus pastor, Ryan Paskey to marry us. If you want to get married there, don't live together before marriage-my fiancée and I didn't realize this. We didn't know this was frowned upon with living together before marriage under the same roof. We were uneducated. Pastor Ryan refused to marry us unless we either (A.) moved the wedding date to the next week or (B.) he said we would have to move out of our home together, live apart and wait till our wedding date to move back in together. In addition to moving out, the Wexford Pastor said if we continued to live together, we both must resign immediately and give up our leadership positions within the church. There's a leadership covenant that you are expected to sign and we had no idea about this. This was never communicated till we approached the Wexford pastor. The last thing Paskey said that hurt the most was how the man needs to run the house and be in charge and women have 0 power and must be homemakers. Otherwise God was not present in our home. Remember that speech the Kansas City Chiefs kicker gave? That's what Northway believes and how the Wexford preacher spoke to us. Also, they don't remember you since it's a mega church and forget the new people. With all this being said, we stepped away and found a new church home thankfully. We were deeply hurt, confused, angry and disappointed. We believe God wasn't angry at us. We forgive pastor Ryan, but we highly disagree with the views he displayed. We felt compelled to write this review to prevent others from making the same mistakes we did. We will respect Northway, the staff and the people for who they are, but we highly disagree with the views and church statement of values. We wish them all the best moving forward. We just don't plan to attend there unless serious changes of modernization are made.

Jun 2019

After moving to Pittsburgh from a large city where we LOVED our church, it was a hard time in our lives. We visited Northway because it reminded us of our church back home. We felt welcomed the moment we walked in. There are so many things we love about Northway and would recommend the church to everyone!

Dec 2016

Very upset with the professional counseling. My therapist charged me 55 dollars because I couldn't make it for my appointment. My dog had to be taken to the ER. It seems that all the therapists care about is money. Safe to say I won't be returning to her for therapy nor will or would I recommend this counselor to anyone. It's such a shame. I will be cancelling any further appointments tomorrow.