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. 

A Story of Hope

Former Healing For Men Participant

Former Healing for Men Participant I can remember so vividly while hanging out with my dad as a young boy the declaration, "Don't ever touch this stuff". You see my dad was in the throes of alcohol addiction for all my childhood and teenage years. On top of that, he would be diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma when I was 13 and pass away when I was 20. For those 7 years, I watched as my dad became frail and sick. My mom had to perform both roles as a parent a great deal of the time. This was overwhelming for…

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A Story of Hope

Former Healing For Men Participant

From A Healing for Men Participant March 2021 was one of the hardest times of my life. I lost my mother, the one person that supported me from the beginning. She had been by rock because when I was 6 years old, I lost my dad in a fatal accident. I had no idea how her passing would impact me. Soon after her funeral, I fell into depression. I didn’t know how to grieve her death or let her go. I was in big trouble emotionally. After months of wrestling with all the loss, for the first time in my…

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