Daniel Kiser

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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Recommended Reading: Clergy Sexual Misconduct/Abuse

  • Before the Fall: Preventing Pastoral Sexual Abuse
    Friberg Nils & Mark Laaser
  • Restoring the Soul of a Church: Healing Congregations Wounded by Clergy Sexual Misconduct
    Nancy Hopkins & Mark Laaser
  • When a Congregation Is Betrayed: Responding to Clergy Misconduct
    Beth Gaede
  • The Sexual Abuse of Women by Members of the Clergy
    Kathryn Flynn
  • Is Nothing Sacred? The Story of a Pastor, The Women He Sexually Abused, and The Congregation He Nearly Destroyed
    Marie Fortune
  • Clergy Sexual Misconduct – A Systems Approach to Prevention, Intervention and Oversight
    John Thoburn & Rob Baker
  • Restoring the Fallen – A Team Approach to Caring, Confronting & Reconciling
    Earl & Sandy Wilson, Paul & Virginia Friesen & Larry & Nancy Paulson
  • Preventing Ministry Failure
    Michael Todd Wilson & Brad Hoffmann

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