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| | | Key to Your Child's Heart Healing Weekend mothers with children who experience SSA September 28-30, 2018
The weekend is designed for mothers of a same-sex attracted or gay-identified child. The goal is for each mother to grow personally and as a Parent/Coach, to learn how to better love and understand your struggling child, and to uncover how your own unresolved issues may be blocking your family’s path to healing.
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| | Key to Your Child's Heart Healing Weekend fathers with children who experience SSA November 16-18, 2018
This weekend will give you the opportunity to connect with other fathers that are in the same position as you, and learn together how you can rise up and face the challenges that affect our families and children! You will gain great insight into your child’s needs by learning, growing, and taking part in group activities with each other during this interactive weekend!
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| | Now Available for Order
The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos
The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos is now available for order (paperback)! To order your copy, click here!
Click here to order the Kindle version from Amazon, NOOK Book from Barnes & Noble, or iBook from iTunes.
What Others Are Saying About The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos
The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos is a masterful synthesis of Christian theology and the social sciences that has the potential to radically transform our culture in positive ways. With his characteristic accessible style, Christopher Doyle establishes that sex has a meaning and a purpose beyond mere pleasure and procreation. He also demonstrates that when couples embrace the true meaning and purpose of sex, holiness, health, and happiness result. This book deserves a close read by all Christians, especially those who nurture children, including parents, educators, pastors, physicians, and therapists. Our children must be armed with faith and reason together in order to thrive in and one day heal our culture.
~ Michelle A. Cretella, M.D.
President, American College of Pediatricians
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| Bring Christopher Doyle to Your Church Service, Conference, or Event Clear Answers on Sexuality and Gender in a Confused Culture
In today’s secular culture, confusion abounds on issues relating to sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Within the church, pastors and ministers are being inundated with so-called modern constructs of sex, gender, and sexual identity - and without the proper training and education, professionals in the faith-based community are often unable to articulate clear solutions to difficult questions.
Having journeyed through these issues, personally and professionally, Christopher Doyle understands and can articulate clear-cut solutions to these dilemmas. As a licensed clinical professional counselor, published author, and expert on sexuality and gender identity, some of the topics he teaches on, are:
- The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos
- Understanding Homosexuality and Gender Identity: Meaning and Causes
- Intimacy in Marriage: How to Take Your Marriage from Functioning to Flourishing
- Healing for Families and Parents of Sexual Minority Children
- Sexual Risk Avoidance: Benefits of Delaying Sexual Debut for Young People
- Real Love in Marriage: How to Give and Receive Unconditional Love
- The Politics of Sexual and Gender Identity
In addition, Christopher can customize any of these presentations to suit your conference, event, Sunday morning service, or mid-week Bible study.
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| | Institute for Healthy Families and Christopher Doyle in the Media |
| | Ex-Gays: The Smallest and Most Rejected Minority in America
This past weekend, a small group of ex-LGBT’s held a rally in Washington, DC, called the “Freedom March.” Although I have met many such people around the country, I expected that the turnout would be tiny. And it was. That’s because the great majority of those who came out of homosexual practice and transgender identification simply want to live their lives. They are not known or celebrated. They are on no one’s payroll. They are changed, and they are the better for it. But I do know that many of them feel alone and misunderstood. That’s why one ex-gay counselor, Chris Doyle, founded Voice for the Voiceless. Its mission is “to defend the rights of former homosexuals, individuals with unwanted same-sex attraction, and their families.” It is a mission all of us should support, especially those of us in the faith community. If anyone should be encouraged and embraced, it is these precious men and women, some of whom are still in the healing process. Click here to read more of Dr. Michael Brown's article on stream.org. |
| | Should Those Seeking Freedom From Unwanted Sexual Attractions Be Denied Therapy?
‘LGBT’ activists demand bans on these therapies, claiming they can only cause harm, but those who have benefited insist such claims are unjustified.
. . . even the documentary The Sunday Sessions, about the therapy received by Nathan, a young man who remained true to his Catholic faith while struggling with his sexual identity, is being presented as a film about the harms of conversion therapy.
Christopher Doyle, the therapist in the film and executive director of the Institute for Healthy Families, said he had agreed to work with what he thought was a neutral film producer on the project. However, Doyle, who also serves as coordinator of the National Task Force for Therapy Equality, said he later learned that the filmmaker had approached the project with preconceived notions about the therapy he provided and so concluded that the emotional and relational healing the client received was “torture.”
“It seems that for those who do not understand the importance of faith for individuals like Nathan, therapy to work through sexual-identity issues is completely misunderstood,” Doyle said. “For Nathan, the therapy he received was lifesaving and integral to help him stay true to his personal and faith values while working through a number of painful traumas from his childhood.” Click here to read more at the National Catholic Register.
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| | Arizona bill would ban 'conversion therapy' for LGBT youths
Arizona this year could become the 10th state to bar mental-health professionals from practicing "conversion therapy," making attempts to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity illegal.
"Each client’s goals are quite different. Some might come in and say, 'I believe I am gay, but this is not working for me and I'd like to find a way to live in congruence with my faith and not act on this,'" said Christopher Doyle, a therapist and coordinator for the National Task Force for Therapy Equality. The coalition works to defeat bans like the one being proposed in Arizona. "You also have clients who say, 'I started having feelings of same-sex attraction after I was abused, and I feel this problem is emotional versus sexual,'" Doyle said. "I have a problem with the term 'conversion therapy,' because it's more complex and nuanced than that. People have the right to make choices and abide by their values." Click here to read more. |
| | Christopher Doyle Interviewed on Virginia's "Conversion Therapy" Ban Bill on Washington, DC's Fox 5 News
Virginia legislators have submitted a bill that would ban conversion therapy for minors in the state, as well as limit allowing state funds for conversion therapy.
The bill, which was authored by Sen. Scott Surovell (D) from District 36 from Fairfax County would prohibit sexuality conversion therapy for people under 18 by "any health care provider or person who performs counseling by licensed professionals." Click here to watch the interview with Christopher Doyle on Washington, DC's Fox 5 News.
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| | Watch Christopher Doyle's Presentation on Adolescent Sexual Health
Click here to watch IHF Executive Director, Christopher Doyle, discuss adolescent sexual health and his book, Benefits of Delaying Sexual Debut, at the 2017 Joint Conference with the American College of Pediatricians and American Association of Pro-Life OBGYN's in Chicago, IL (Photo: Christopher Doyle with American College of Pediatricians President, Dr. Michelle Cretella). |
| | Institute for Healthy Families (IHF) specializes in counseling solutions for individuals, couples, families, therapists, and ministry leaders. IHF is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit therapeutic organization located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. As a Judeo-Christian organization, IHF believes that the family is the foundation for healthy individuals, relationships, communities, and places of worship. While IHF is non-sectarian, we believe that God reveals His truth in both the Bible and Creation and that we can use this wisdom to help facilitate healing. IHF believes that through this synthesis of science and faith, we can help our clients form and maintain healthy families that will be able to help their children become the best versions of themselves and fulfill God’s will for their lives. For more information, visit our website at: www.InstituteforHealthyFamilies.org
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