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 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.
Welcome to the Bethesda Workshops Online Store, your hub for additional healing resources designed to support recovery at every stage. Here you’ll find transformative tools like the Making Advances video series for women, faith-grounded webinars such as Healing After Betrayal for partners, plus recommended books and materials to guide you toward sexual wholeness. Each resource is crafted by our licensed, Christian-based clinicians to complement our in-person intensives and provide continued hope and growth beyond the workshop.
Take a look around and find the support you need on your healing journey.
Making Advances
A groundbreaking first-of-its-kind resource that offers clinicians a research-informed, biopsychosocial framework for understanding and treating women struggling with sex and love addiction, honoring their unique experiences and healing journeys .
Offers a faith-based roadmap—melding Robert Weiss’s proven, step‑by‑step strategies for rebuilding trust after infidelity with Marnie Ferree’s Christian insights and scripture—to guide men toward genuine repentance, restored intimacy, and relationships stronger than before .
Marnie C. Ferree courageously shares her own journey of shame and recovery while blending clinical insight, scriptural grace, and practical guidance to help women (and those who support them) break free from sexual addiction and heal relational wounds .
Curt Thompson, M.D., compassionately blends neuroscience, biblical insight, and real-life vignettes to reveal how shame shapes our identities, and offers a pathway into healing through vulnerability, community, and reauthoring the stories we tell ourselves .and healing journeys .
Jay Stringer compassionately reframes unwanted sexual behaviors—not as moral failures, but as meaningful signals shaped by trauma, shame, and unmet emotional needs—offering a research-based (3,800+ participants) and Christ‑centered roadmap to lasting healing through self-awareness, community, and grace .
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. reveals how trauma reshapes the brain and body’s stress response—even long after the event—while offering an expansive, evidence-rich blend of neuroscience, case studies, and somatic therapies (like yoga, EMDR, and neurofeedback) to guide survivors toward healing .
Dr. Sheri Keffer offers a compassionate, research-backed guide for women navigating the trauma of betrayal, blending neuroscience, personal stories, and clinical expertise to help readers reclaim their voices, rebuild trust, and find lasting healing.
Jenna Riemersma bridges IFS and Christian faith, guiding readers through embracing their inner “parts” (like protectors and exiles) with grace, accessing the God‑created Self at their core, and finding true spiritual and emotional integration—praised by IFS founder Richard Schwartz as “groundbreaking and courageous” .
Jason VanRuler invites readers—through his own story of overcoming trauma, addiction, and brokenness—to courageously acknowledge past wounds and step toward emotional and spiritual healing, offering practical insights, biblical wisdom, and therapist-backed tools that guide us into deeper relationships with ourselves, others, and God .
James Clear offers a research-backed, step-by-step framework—centered on tiny, 1% daily improvements and a four-step behavior-change model (cue, craving, response, reward)—that helps readers shift identity, redesign their systems, and achieve remarkable, lasting transformation.
Dr. Anna Lembke unpacks how our culture of overabundance and digital distractions rewires the brain’s reward system—then offers science-backed solutions like dopamine fasting, self-binding strategies, and “pain-pressing” practices—on the path to true, lasting pleasure and resilience.
Todd Bowman equips therapists, clergy, and faith-based care providers with a comprehensive, research-informed framework—rooted in a biopsychosocial and faith-integrated perspective—for addressing problematic sexual behaviors and trauma in a sensitive, holistic way across various population groups .
Bethesda Workshops offers two impactful online courses to meet learners where they are: Breaking the Bonds of Sexual Addiction equips pastors, group leaders, and lay facilitators with practical tools for guiding others through recovery, while The Body’s Role in Trauma provides therapists with faith-informed, somatic techniques to support trauma healing. Both courses are available on-demand, accessible, insightful, and ready when you are.
Breaking The Bonds Of Sexual Addiction Video Series
Marnie C. Ferree, M.A., is an LMFT and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), leading Bethesda Workshops—a Christian-based intensive program for sex addicts, partners, and teens. She pioneered the first treatment for female sex addicts in 1997 and later, the first workshop for teen girls. Marnie authored No Stones, edited Making Advances, and co-authored Out of the Doghouse for Christian Men.
The Body’s Role in Trauma: Techniques for Therapist
Learn the necessity of the body in trauma work, practical techniques to reduce client overwhelm and therapist burnout, and somatic practices to regulate the nervous system. This course will be led by Dr. Christine Baker, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). She will include a Christian faith-based perspective on this growing field of work.
