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. 

Recommended Reading: Sexual Addiction / Infidelity

Find books to help you better understand addiction and betrayal trauma.

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    Forest Benedict
  • Overcoming Love Addiction: Your Recovery Roadmap
    Lacy Bentley
  • The Anatomy of an Affair: How Affairs, Attractions and Addictions Develop and How to Guard Your Marriage
    Dave Carder
  • Don’t Call It Love
    Patrick Carnes
  • Out of the Shadows
    Patrick Carnes
  • Facing the Shadow: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery
    Patrick Carnes
  • Recovery Zone
    Patrick Carnes
  • Shadows of the Cross – A Christian Companion to Facing the Shadow
    Craig Cashwell, Pennie Johnson
  • Letters From a Sex Addict: My Life Exposed
    Wendy Conquest, Dan Drake
  • Disclosing Secrets: An Addict’s Guide for When, to Whom & How Much to Reveal
    Deborah Corley, Jennifer Schneider
  • Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked our Sexuality
    A Gail Dines
  • No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction 
    Marnie C. Ferree
  • Out of the Doghouse – A Redemptive Guide for Men Caught Cheating
    Marnie C. Ferree
  • A L.I.F.E. Guide for Women (workbook)
    Marnie C. Ferree
  • The Porn Myth: Exposing the Reality Behind the Fantasy of Pornography
    Matt Fradd
  • Not Just Friends
    Shirley Glass
  • Relationships in Recovery
    Linda Hatch
  • Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction
    Mark Laaser
  • A L.I.F.E. Guide for Men (workbook)
    Mark Laaser
  • Porn Nation
    Michael Leahy
  • The Storm of Sex Addiction: Rescue and Recovery
    Connie Lofgreen
  • Hope & Freedom for Sexual Addicts and Their Partners
    Milton Magness
  • The Porn Trap: An Essential Guide to Overcoming Problems Caused by Pornography
    Wendy Maltz, Larry Maltz
  • Ready to Heal: Women Facing Love, Sex and Relationship Addiction
    Kelly McDaniel
  • Facing Love Addiction
    Pia Melody
  • Dirty Girls Come Clean
    Crystal Renaud
  • Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual Addiction
    Sue Silverman
  • After the Affair
    Janis Spring
  • Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing – Jay Stringer
  • Naked in Public: A Memoir of Recovery from Sex Addiction and Other Temporary Insanities
    Staci Sprout
  • Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain
    William Struthers
  • SA 101: A Basic Guide to Healing from Porn, Sex and Love Addiction
    Robert Weiss
  • SA 101 Workbook
    Robert Weiss
  • Always Turned On: Sex Addiction in the Digital Age
    Robert Weiss
  • Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
    Gary Wilson

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