"Changing From Gay To Straight Is Possible"
 
Love/Sex/Intimacy (LSI) Healing Seminars
and
Counselor's Training Program

2008

Over the past seventeen years, educator, author and psychotherapist Richard Cohen and his staff have led LSI Healing Seminars for thousands of men and women throughout the world. Come and experience a personal transformation. Learn new ways to create intimacy with yourself, others and God. Learn how to help others on their journey to wholeness. The LSI Healing Seminars are open to individuals, couples, families, therapists and friends.

“This was the best seminar of my life. My eyes and heart were open to understand the pain that SSA men and women go through. I love every person in this room. I feel so sad for my SSA son. My wife and I will help him heal.”  HM

“I was able to find my inner child and embrace him. I was able to release lots of anger. I feel renewed and alive! I feel courageous to face my emotions and be honest about them with myself and others. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.” DP

“I was anxious before arriving, afraid that participating in a group workshop would mean I was ‘coming out’ as something that I didn’t want to be. But my feelings are not who I am. They are my feelings that include SSA; and being shown that SSA is an indicator of deficits to very real needs helped dissolve my shame. I’m glad I came and recommend LSI for anyone brave enough to discover that God indeed made them beautiful.”  RB

Our LSI Healing Seminar Series provides a safe place to access feelings/thoughts that may be blocking personal growth and achieving healthy relationships. Each seminar targets different aspects of the journey to wholeness. Through a series of two-day experiential seminars combining emotional processes and cognitive understandings, vital life skills will be gained and hope renewed.

In a safe, protected and non-judgmental environment, hearts will be healed, minds will be mended and spirits set free. Together, we shall create a world of true intimacy with healthy touch and secure attachment.

All seminars are held at a hotel outside the Baltimore Washington International (BWI) airport and take place on Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 5pm.

Love/Sex/Intimacy (LSI) Level I Healing Seminar

April 5-6 / September 13-14 / December 6-7 (Baltimore, Maryland)

This is an opportunity for individuals/couples/families/friends to share from their hearts and experience tremendous healing. We offer real and practical solutions for both personal and family issues. It doesn’t matter what issue(s) you are dealing with, everyone is welcome. This is a safe and non-judgmental atmosphere. The LSI Healing Seminar is a safe and supportive environment for you to let go and receive love. Exercises include:

  • Discovering your inner child

  • Reconciling relationships

  • Healing power of healthy touch

  • Fulfilling unmet love needs in healthy relationships

  • Healing guilt, shame and fear

Come! Experience a new way of being and the power of love. We invite you to open up, share your deepest concerns and allow remarkable healing to occur.

Mother – Daughter Healing Seminar
July 19-20

This is the first of its kind—a safe place for mothers and daughters to gather and express your love, regrets, joy, sorrow, anger and deep longings for one another. All mothers and daughters are welcome, regardless of your personal issue(s). You will be guided through a series of exercises to experience personal and relational breakthroughs. It is no longer necessary to maintain the walls that divide and separate you from one another. Come and experience the healing you desire. Exercises include:

  • Healing past wounds

  • Forgiving, understanding, and accepting each other

  • Healthy female bonding

  • Learning each other’s love language

  • Honoring your mother and blessing your daughter

Father – Son Healing Seminar
June 21-22

"I had expected the primary benefit of the Father-Son weekend would have been for my son, but instead I,the father, benefited in ways I could never imagine. The bond that was formed between my son and I this weekend will remain with us forever. The other fathers in the seminar were likewise moved, as our Heavenly Father moved sons toward fathers and fathers toward sons. What a blessing!" KV

"This weekend had a profound effect upon my relationship with my father. I learned more about my dad than I knew before. This has helped me see why things are the way they are in our relationship. We can now work through them to get closer.” BA

“I learned that hurting people hurt people because they don’t know how or where to get healing from past wounds. Here I learned how to do it. Thank you.” AC  

This unique healing seminar will be a powerful weekend where fathers and sons come together to tear down walls and get to know each other from the inside out. This is a chance to establish deeper connections, learn about each other’s love language, and establish a lifelong alliance of love. Exercises include:

  • Healing past wounds

  • Forgiving, understanding, and accepting each other

  • Healthy male bonding

  • Learning each other’s love language

  • Fathers blessing sons & Sons honoring fathers

There is hope for healing wounds and fulfilling unmet needs.  Come experience acceptance, love and intimacy.

Location:

All Love/Sex/Intimacy Healing Seminars are held at a hotel outside the Baltimore Washington International (BWI) Airport. Hotel information is given after you register for the seminar.

Times:

Saturday and Sunday, from 9:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.

Dates:

  • LSI Level I
    April 5-6 / September 13-14 / December 6-7

  • Mother – Daughter Healing Seminar
    June 21-22

  • Father – Son Healing Seminar
    February 16-17 / July 19-20

Cost:

Individual

 $250

Couple / Family of 2

 $400

Family of 3 

 $550

Additional Family Members

 $150

Please join us for a wonderful, life changing experience. We look forward to seeing you there.

Please click here for the seminar Registration Form.

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

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 tos” 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 seminars 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
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