International Healing Foundation
Changing the World One Life at a Time!
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Richard Cohen, M.A., a psychotherapist and educator, is one of the leading experts in the field of sexual reorientation and the author of Coming Out Straight: Understanding and Healing Homosexuality and Gay Children, Straight Parents: A Plan for Family Healing.
Cohen is the director of the International Healing Foundation (IHF), a non-profit organization he founded in 1990. Based in the Washington, D.C. area, IHF offers consultations/evaluations, teleconferencing classes, healing seminars, counselor training programs, and speaking engagements. As director, Cohen travels extensively throughout the States and Europe conducting seminars on marital relations, communication skills, parenting skills, sexual reorientation and healing from abuse and addictions. He is a frequent guest lecturer on college and university campuses, and at therapeutic and religious conferences.
Cohen holds a Master of Arts degree in psychology from Antioch University and a bachelor's degree from Boston University. He has worked in child abuse treatment services, family reconciliation services, general counseling and support groups. For three years, he worked as an HIV/AIDS educator for the American Red Cross.
As an expert in sexual reorientation therapy both as a counselor an d through his own personal experience transitioning from a homosexual to a heterosexual orientation in the 1980's Cohen has been interviewed by newspapers, radio and television media, including appearances on 20/20, Larry King Live, The O'Reilly Factor, Paula Zahn Now, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. He is the Vice President and co-founder of Positive Alternatives To Homosexuality (PATH.) In addition to academic papers, Mr. Cohen has authored Coming Out Straight: Understanding and Healing Homosexuality; Gay Children-Straight Parents: A Plan for Family Healing, and Alfie's Home. Coming Out Straight is available in German, Spanish, Polish and soon to be released Italian edition.
Cohen lives in the Washington, DC metropolitan area with his wife and youngest son.
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International Healing Foundation
P.O. Box 901, Bowie, MD 20718
Tel. (301) 805-6111
Fax (301) 805-5155
Email: IHFinfo@changeispossible.com
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