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International Healing Foundation

The International Healing Foundation (IHF), established by psychotherapist Richard Cohen in 1990, is an educational and counseling nonprofit organization that has helped thousands of men, women, and adolescents worldwide over the past seventeen years. IHF seeks to help each man, woman, and child in healing from past and present wounds, and empower them with the understanding of their value as a child of God.

International Healing Foundation Staff

Bob Abbott, CSRC

Bob is certified as a sexual reorientation coach (CSRC) by the International Healing Foundation. Bob has the unique perspective being both the client and now the coach. He himself made the journey and came out straight. Bob brings a unique combination to the coaching arena, able to understand and identify with strugglers, since he has mastered his own personal exodus from sexual brokenness. He started out as a business man, married with 3 children, when he realized that he had to address the pain related to the many conflicts in his life over his sexual brokenness. Besides in-person or phone coaching, Bob is one of the lead facilitators of the Love/Sex/Intimacy (LSI) Healing Seminars sponsored by the International Healing Foundation.

Bob can be reached at  IHFassist@gmail.com

Hilde Wiemann, CSRC, Parent and Relationship Coach

Hilde is certified as a sexual reorientation coach (CSRC) by the International Healing Foundation (IHF). She has worked with IHF over the past 10 years, assisting in seminars and family healing sessions. Hilde’s specialty is working with parents of children who experience same-sex attractions. She is a lead instructor for the International Healing Foundation’s Parents Teleconferencing classes (Level One and Level Two). She facilities Family Healing Sessions, helping families achieve greater intimacy and healing in all relationships. For more information, press here.


Hilde can be reached at (301) 537-2848 or coachhilde@aol.com

 

IHF has five main areas of expertise:

1.  Healing Seminars

  • Love / Sex / Intimacy (LSI) Healing Seminars

  • Mother-Daughter Healing Seminars

  • Father-Son Healing Seminars

2.  Teleconferencing Classes

  • Parents

  • Strugglers

3.  Resource Materials

Books:

  • Coming Out Straight: Understanding and Healing Homosexuality

  • Gay Children, Straight Parents: A Plan for Family Healing

  • Practical Exercises for Men in Recovery of Same Sex Attractions

  • Alfie's Home

Audio Tapes/CDs:

  • Healing Homosexuality: Meaning & Causes

  • Healing Homosexuality: Process of Transitioning

  • Healing Homosexuality: Therapeutic Tools & Techniques

  • Meditations and Affirmations 

  • Healing Your Inner Child / Memory Healing

Video/DVD:

  • Coming Out Straight

4.  Consultations/Evaluations

  • Consultations for Individuals / Parents

  • Individual evaluations / Treatment plan

  • Referral Services

5. Counselor Training Program

The Counselor’s Training Program is for therapists, coaches, clergy, and ministry leaders who wish to assist those dealing with unwanted same-sex attraction (SSA). In this training program, you will learn:

  1. How to evaluate clients and develop a comprehensive treatment plan for their healing
  2. Therapeutic strategies to use in each stage of treatment (cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, family systems)
  3. How to assist parents, spouses and other family members,
  4. Preparing SSA men/women for dating
  5. Taking care of the therapist/counselor/coach to prevent your own burn out

The Counselors Training Program will take place at the International Healing Foundation (IHF) offices during four weekends throughout the year. The office is located between Baltimore and Washington, DC. The nearest airport is BWI (Baltimore-Washington International).

Psychotherapist, educator, and author Richard Cohen will facilitate this training program. Having worked with and successfully helped hundreds of men and women transition from a homosexual to a heterosexual orientation over the past seventeen years, Cohen will share the “how to's” of change. Practical strategies for assisting clients in the change process will be taught. There will be allotted times for questions and answers, as well as specific training in the use of each therapeutic approach. The final session in October will be facilitated by Bruce Gold. Mr. Gold is a counselor and seminar leader. He has over thirteen years experience facilitating experiential seminar throughout the United States.

Training includes:

• Evaluating and developing a treatment plan for clients
• Four stages of healing unwanted same-sex attraction (SSA)
• Cognitive and inner child approaches to healing
• Creating affirmations for healing gender identity
• Psychodynamic/Therapeutic techniques for greater healing:
     Focusing / Voice Dialogue / Bioenergetics / Psychodrama /
     Family Constellations / Holding & Healthy Touch
• Assisting clients in establishing healthy friendships and mentors
• Understanding the meaning of sexual fantasies and masturbation
• Working with families: Attachment Therapy
• Strategies for family interventions and relational healing
• Preparing SSA men and women for dating
• Taking care of the therapist, preventing burn out

The Counselor’s Training Program will take place on four weekends throughout the year (Saturday and Sunday from 9a.m. to 5p.m). We may end early on some days.

Dates: March 24-25 / May 5-6 / July 14-15 / Oct 20-21

Cost: $350 per session / Total $1,400 (Early registration by Jan 1, 2007: $1,300)

Payment in full, for the entire program, is required at the time of registration.

Please click here for the Counselor Training Program Registration Form.

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International Healing Foundation
P.O. Box 901, Bowie, MD 20718
Tel. (301) 805-6111 / Fax (301) 805-5155
Email:
info@gaytostraight.org