About Us
Combined training and experience in family and marriage therapy, RAD/attachment intensives, Inner Healing Prayer, therapeutic foster parenting, and parent coaching.
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The Beatitude House Ministry Team is made up of men and women representing both professional and lay counseling. Among the team members is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years experience. All members have been trained at the basic and advanced levels in Theophostic® Ministry.
Our team provides training and ministry to others in a variety of settings in North America. We clearly see the Lord’s hand in bringing us together as a team; gifting us with the ability to come alongside those individuals and families dealing with life’s emotional wounds. The appropriate team configuration is determined by individual and family needs.
Our Intercessory Prayer Network of over 145 dedicated Christians spans the United States, lifting families and their concerns to the Lord.
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| I first encountered attachment treatment in 1994 when I was asked to accompany an adoptive family to Evergreen, Colorado, for two weeks of intensive therapy. By the end of the first week, I knew what they were doing was very effective at setting the stage for real healing.I was eager to learn more so I traveled back to Colorado several times. At this point, I realized that in order to master this approach, a full immersion was necessary. After months of prayer and deliberation, Fawn and I pulled up stakes in Florida, where we had been established for 15 years, and moved on faith to Evergreen. We became licensed as therapeutic foster parents to meet our financial needs but looking back it was the best training of all… in the trenches. The kids taught us a ton!!!Attachment Intensives and Foster Children As therapeutic foster parents we had up to four children in our home ranging in ages from 4 to 17. All of them needed an extended stay to practice how to be a good family member so they could work their way home. Fawn did the bulk of the parenting during the day while I trained with a number of different attachment agencies in Evergreen.The attachment training was initially observation but very soon I had hands-on involvement. I feel very blessed to have been a treatment team member for more than 100 two-week intensives over the course of the five years we were in Colorado.
The experience was extremely rich. Sometimes there would be two intensives going on at the same time and I would find myself in different roles…sometimes therapist, sometimes therapeutic Dad. All the time we were learning different approaches from world-renown experts in the attachment field; people like Terry Levy, Michael Orlans and Nancy Thomas. Attunement, Corrective Attachment Therapy©, and specialized parenting techniques were all part of the learning experience.
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Matthew is a licensed marriage and family therapist having practiced for 20 years. He has trained and counseled foster and adoptive families in both private practice and agency settings. Throughout his career he has trained and advised caseworkers and supervisors in the social service system. Since 1994 he has received extensive training and experience in attachment therapy.
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Fawn has been trained in basic and advanced Theophostic® Ministry and trains others in Theophostic®’s basic principles. This is one of the many tools she and the ministry team use in providing treatment. She is a facilitating member of IATM; the International Association for Theophostic® Ministry. She is also a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors and is currently working towards her Masters degree in Christian counseling. Fawn is also a Christian life coach, working with individuals to help them create and master their own goals and strategies for their lives. |
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Fawn has been helping children and their families for over ten years. She was the Program Director of a national at-risk prevention program in Florida before moving to Colorado to work with severely emotionally wounded children. Her desire is to teach parents to “maintain the integrity” of the parent/child relationship and help families stay intact. This is what encourages her and Matt in training parents to have a Godly mindset in a secular world.