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Erica Vaughn

As Bethesda Workshops’ Marketing Director, Erica helps share the hope and healing available at Bethesda. Her work includes creating our messages shared through email, social media, and on our website.

She brings experience in marketing several small businesses and non-profit organizations in the Southeast. Erica earned her BS in Business Administration in Marketing from Appalachian State University and completed a certificate program in Digital Marketing with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She and her husband have three kids. She enjoys traveling with her family to the Carolina beaches and mountains.

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Shelly Gibbs

Shelly Gibbs is a nonprofit consultant and business coach who partners with organizations and individuals navigating their next season of growth. Her work centers on three pillars: strategy, systems, and staff — the building blocks of sustainable, thriving organizations.

Before launching her practice, Shelly served as Executive Director of NorthState Care Clinic and Director of Moral Revolution, two nonprofits dedicated to equipping and empowering people to live as their best, truest selves.

Shelly brings a whole-person perspective to her work, grounded in the belief that we are tri-polar beings — body, soul, and spirit — and that lasting transformation requires all three. She partners with people in their pursuit of freedom, peace, and abundance, holding firmly to this: we are better together.

She holds a BA in Liberal Studies and a Multi-Subject Teaching Credential from Simpson University. A Northern California native, she's now rooted in the Pacific Northwest.  

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Melissa Haas

Melissa Haas serves as the spouse-supporting therapist at HopeQuest. Melissa has a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy and is a licensed professional counselor.  Passionate about spiritual community, healthy marriages, and intimacy with God, Melissa regularly facilitates small groups and teaches and speaks on these topics in order to help the Body of Christ grow relationally with God and each other.  

Melissa and her husband Troy have been married for thirty-four years and have three adult children and one grand-daughter. They have devoted their lives to helping others find hope and freedom from addiction, giving back the comfort they have received on their own journeys of healing.  

Daniel Kiser

Daniel Kiser

Daniel is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist in the state of Tennessee. He has earned master degrees in Marital and Family Therapy and Biblical Studies from Lee University. Throughout his clinical experience, he has demonstrated clinical effectiveness working with adolescents and families through utilization of evidenced based approaches in his roles as a counselor, clinical supervisor, and behavioral health manager. He has worked with adolescents with severe suicidal behaviors, anxiety, depression, aggression, and high-risk behaviors in residential treatment. Addressed the relational distress within the parent-child relationship created by their child’s disruptive behavioral responses, helping parents through their despair, resentment, and disillusionment. He is invested in the integration of theology and psychology, believing that activation of human longings, desires, and vitality for life is based upon both disciplines. Aside from professional development, he also has experienced the profound impact of a transformative therapeutic relationship that provides accountability, exploration of underlying wounds and thoughts, and compassionate care. Counseling is oriented towards reclaiming, rediscovering, and restoring vital aspects of human development and he is eager to help others in their process as well. 

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About Bethesda

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Treatment of sex addiction and betrayal trauma.

Bethesda Workshops provides a place of healing for those damaged by pornography and other forms of compulsive sexual behavior. We offer Christian-based, short-term, clinical workshops for male sex addicts, female sex addicts, partners of addicts, couples affected by sexual addiction, and adolescents and their parents.

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OUR APPROACH

Freedom and healing are closer than you think. Our approach is...

Effective

Our proven program creates lasting change, even for those who have tried and struggled before.

Immediate

You will experience significant breakthroughs and meaningful progress in a short time.

Empowering

In a safe and caring group, shame begins to lift, peace takes its place, and you start to feel truly accepted; freed from the grip of compulsive behavior.

The benefits of partnering with us

Choosing Bethesda

You don’t have to walk this journey alone. We are deeply committed to bringing positive, meaningful, and lasting change to your life, empowering you to thrive & achieve your fullest potential.

Unmatched Expertise

100% of our clinical staff (adult workshops) have CSAT or CPTT designations.

Trusted by Participants

97% of workshop attendees recommend Bethesda Workshops.

Proven History

We began in 1997 and have had almost 7,000 participants come through our programs.

Comprehensive Program

Group therapy has been shown to be an extremely effective tool for the treatment of addiction.

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Testimonials

“I resisted any type of community and realized it was a big missing piece of my recovery.”

Healing for Men

“I did not expect the depth of material and tools I received for my recovery and I am thankful.”

Healing for Men

“The integration of Godly values to truly heal core wounds was remarkable.”

Healing for Men

“I resisted any type of community and realized it was a big missing piece of my recovery.”

Healing for Men

“I did not expect the depth of material and tools I received for my recovery and I am thankful.”

Healing for Men

“The sense of community and brotherly camaraderie was so encouraging.”

Healing for Men

“I didn’t think this would reach so deep in my soul.”

Healing for Men

“The healing I have already experienced really surprises me. I will be forever grateful for this.”

Healing for Men

“The comprehensiveness was astounding. I liked the variability of learning experiences.”

Healing for Men

“This workshop is so, so awesome. Wish I had known about this many years ago.”

Healing for Men

“I am leaving with ample tools and I had fantastic discovery. 15 out of 10 experience.”

Healing for Men

“We left feeling so encouraged.”

“Safe place to take on the hard stuff.”

“The ratio of couples to therapists was great, especially having a male and female therapist in the group.”

“I believe this workshop will help save our marriage.”

“We were really stuck in our coupleship, and Bethesda helped us get unstuck.”

“I never thought my wife and I could laugh together again and have fun.”

“I came in carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders and I’m leaving with the ability to walk out with a greater freedom than expected.”

Healing for Women

“The format, tools, and therapists are amazing.”

Healing for Women

“I feel I have a better, much better vision and tools to improve my life.”

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Healing for Men

The Healing for Men Workshop is a four-day intensive designed for men struggling with compulsive sexual behavior.

 

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Healing for Partners

The Healing for Partners Workshop is a four-day intensive for those who've been betrayed by a partner’s compulsive sexual behavior.

 

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Healing for Couples

The Healing for Couples workshop is a three-day intensive for couples recovering from the damages of compulsive sexual behavior.

 

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Healing for Women

The Healing for Women Workshop is a four-day intensive designed for women struggling with compulsive sexual behavior.

 

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Healing for Teens

The Healing for Teens workshop helps adolescents struggling with porn addiction or other compulsive sexual behaviors. This program includes parents to support the family’s healing as a whole.

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Advanced Healing

The Advanced Healing Workshop is a four-day intensive for men and women ready to go deeper in their trauma recovery.

 

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Men's Aftercare

The Healing for Men Aftercare Group is a 10-week recovery process that builds on what you learned at Bethesda.

 

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Women's Aftercare

Cultivate or rekindle meaningful connections with fellow Bethesda women, those who truly understand the journey.

 

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Partner's Aftercare Group

God met you there, and He is still tenderly pursuing your heart, His beloved.

 

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