| | | | | | | | | | | | Mother's Healing Weekend September 8-10, 2017 Hilltop Retreat Center Hagerstown, MD
For mothers of a same-sex attracted or gay-identified child
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| Father's Healing Weekend November 3-5, 2017 Hilltop Retreat Center Hagerstown, MD
For fathers of a same-sex attracted or gay-identified child
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| | What is a Family Healing Session?
The Family Healing Session is one of the most advanced and effective tools available at this time in family counseling and coaching. It is especially helpful to remove blocks that prevent healthy communication and connection within the family. The family healing sessions are most successful in creating more harmonious and loving relationships. They also support the resolution of longstanding conflicts between parents and children. Ideally all family members, parents and children alike, participate and gain a new foundation of open, honest sharing and greater love. It has been said by many who have participated in our Family Healing Sessions, that this experience was equal to and greater than several years of therapy! Click here to read more. |
| | Christopher Doyle in the News |
| Coat Hangers, Electric Shock, and other Leftist Myths
A consumer fraud complaint has been filed with the Federal Trade Commission by a consortium of counselors and physicians against the deceptive practices of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and others. Yet the same old, same old lie about counseling for unwanted same-sex attractions was repeated in a recent article by Reuters. Click here to read more...
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| | Ex-Gay Group Files Fraud Complaint to the FTC Over Therapy Ban Misinformation
An ex-gay group headed by sexual orientation change efforts therapy proponent and licensed counselor Chris Doyle has filed a fraud complaint against three major pro-LGBT organizations before the Federal Trade Commission.The National Task Force for Therapy Equality filed a consumer fraud complaint on Tuesday against the Human Rights Campaign, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Southern Poverty Law Center over their efforts to ban SOCE therapy. Click here to read more . . . |
| | Supreme Court Upholds Ban of "Sexual Orientation Change" Therapy for Kids
Christopher Doyle, a leader in the movement to protect therapists’ right to treat people, including minors who want help to overcome unwanted homosexual attractions, told LifeSiteNews that the Welch case was not the best case to be heard by the Supreme Court.
Doyle, a former homosexual and licensed professional counselor who co-coordinates the National Task Force for Therapy Equality, told LifeSiteNews that because Pastor Welch could still counsel minors through his church affiliation, the high court might have cited that as the basis for upholding the California law.
“He could take off his ‘licensed counselor’ hat and put on his church counselor hat” and still help people with unwanted same-sex attractions, Doyle said, adding that he does not believe there is an imminent liberal threat to ban Christian, pro-heterosexual counseling behind church walls. Click here to read more . . .
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| | New Mexico Bans Therapy for Minors Who Don't Want Same-Sex Attraction
New Mexico has become the latest state to sign into law a ban on sexual orientation change efforts therapy for minors, becoming the sixth state to do so. SOCE has been misrepresented by critics and the media, proponents of the therapy argue. In a March 17 op-ed for The Christian Post, Christopher Doyle, an ex-gay licensed clinical professional counselor, wrote, "Gay conversion therapy is a made-up term coined by gay activists to describe a practice where a client is changed from gay to straight — often involving teenagers, against their will, and usually in the case where a religious or unaccepting parent is the impetus. In my clinical experience, I have worked with hundreds of parents and teenagers struggling with sexual and gender identity. Not once have I ever allowed a parent to force or manipulate their child to change. Click here to read more. |
| | ABC's '20/20' Contacted Me for 'Gay Conversion Therapy' Story, But Ignored What I Told Them
On March 10, ABC's "20/20" aired a year-long investigation on several "Christian camps" reported to be practicing so-called "gay conversion therapy." Shockingly, the exposé revealed unspeakable abuse and torture by several unlicensed "pastors" operating reform schools for troubled youth, some of whom identified as gay or lesbian. Unfortunately, ABC was more sensational than accurate in their reporting when comparing these rogue, abusive camps to licensed therapy for youth struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions and gender confusion, a practice that gay activists have aggressively sought to shut down in more than 25 states and cities across the country. Click here to read more at The Christian Post.
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About the Institute for Healthy Families
Institute for Healthy Families specializes in counseling solutions for individuals, couples, families, therapists, and ministry leaders. IHF is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit therapeutic organization located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. As a Judeo-Christian organization, IHF believes that the family is the foundation for healthy individuals, relationships, communities, and places of worship. While IHF is non-sectarian, we believe that God reveals His truth in both the Bible and Creation and that we can use this wisdom to help facilitate healing. IHF believes that through this synthesis of science and faith, we can help our clients form and maintain healthy families that will be able to help their children become the best versions of themselves and fulfill God’s will for their lives.
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