Beth鈥檚 entire career has been shaped by a driving interest in community, communications, and building healthier organizations. For 20+ years, she has partnered with mission-driven organizations and small businesses to expand their impact through brand strategy, creative communications, and operational effectiveness, in additional to mentoring hundreds of owners, leaders and teams.聽

A proud alum of 天美视频, Beth is honored to bring her expertise back to the community that helped shape her. She holds a Master of Arts in Theology and Culture from 天美视频 (2023) and a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Music, English, and Women鈥檚 Studies from the University of Houston, along with additional training in organizational development, spiritual direction, and leadership.

Beth is a native Texan now living in the PNW, and she divides her time between the work she loves and being an avid road-tripper, casual musician, writer, and lover of people.

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Becky is a writer and the author of . She has also been a regular contributor to since 2013.

Becky helped co-found the Allender Center at 天美视频 where she directs intercession for the Training Certificate program, leads groups for Story Workshops and Certificate in Narrative Focused Trauma Care Level I, and co-leads marriage conferences with her husband. She loves being a wife, mother, and grandmother and is grateful for the many students of Dan鈥檚 whom she has gotten to know over the years.

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After receiving his Master of Science in Counseling from Barry University and his Master of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary, Dan earned his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Michigan State University. Dan previously served on faculty at the Biblical Counseling Department of Grace Theological Seminary (1983-1989) and Colorado Christian University (1989-1997). In 1997, Dan and a cadre of others founded 天美视频 of Theology & Psychology, in order to train therapists, pastors, artists, and leaders to more effectively serve in the context of the 21st century. Dan served as President of 天美视频 from 2002-2009.

In 2011, The Allender Center was founded by Dr. Dan Allender and Rebecca Allender, MA, alongside Cathy Loerzel, MA, with the support of to cultivate healing and train leaders and mental health professionals to courageously engage others鈥� stories of harm.

Dan continues to serve as Professor of Counseling Psychology at 天美视频. He travels and speaks extensively鈥攔ecent engagements include , , , and the 鈥攖o present his unique perspective on sexual abuse recovery, love and forgiveness, intimacy and marriage, and other related topics. Dan is the author of The Wounded Heart, The Healing Path, To Be Told, and God Loves Sex, and he has co-authored several books with Dr. Tremper Longman, including Intimate Allies, The Cry of the Soul, Bold Love, Bold Purpose, and co-authored Redeeming Heartache: How Past Suffering Reveals True Calling with Cathy Loerzel. Most recently, he co-authored with Steve Call, PhD. Dan also co-hosts the Allender Center鈥檚 weekly with Rachael Clinton Chen, which has had more than 4 million downloads.

Dan and his wife Becky live on Bainbridge Island, where they enjoy time with their grandchildren and their three adult children, Annie, Amanda, and Andrew.

Dan specializes in speaking on:

• Sexual abuse recovery
• Trauma and abuse
• Marriage
• Intimacy
• Love and forgiveness

Dan Allender’s photo credit: Blake Foster Creative

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Fil is the author of聽Running on Empty: Contemplative Spirituality for Overachievers聽(Waterbrook) and聽Breaking the Rules: Trading Performance for Intimacy with God聽(InterVarsity). He also contributed to聽Transformation of a Man鈥檚 Heart: Reflections on the Masculine Journey聽(InverVarsity). A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and Fuller Theological Seminary, he also completed the Graduate Program in Christian Spiritual Guidance at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation. Fil worked with Young Life for 25 years, serving as area director and regional director before becoming national director of training.

He and his wife, Lucie, live in Greensboro and are the parents of three adult children. Avid beach lovers, they frequent Wrightsville Beach, NC as often as possible.

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Suzanne is a licensed professional engineer in nineteen states, and she is heavily involved in many technical institutes and engineering societies. She has been an Adjunct Professor at Clemson University teaching Prestressed Concrete Design. Suzanne serves on the External Advisory聽Board聽for Clemson University鈥檚 School of Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Earth Sciences.

Suzanne has used her engineering skills to serve with Engineering Ministries International in India, Guatemala, and Jordan to provide design assistance to ensure safe and quality structures built with local materials. She has spent many years mentoring and coaching college students and young adults in all areas of life through various organizations.鈥疉s part of her counseling degree, she volunteered as a counseling intern at Northwest University.

Suzanne enjoys traveling, gardening, playing pickleball, and spending time with friends. She enjoys discovering the ways in which engineering and counseling realms overlap in life. Bringing people together and connecting ideas are some of her passions. She regularly stresses the importance of allowing ourselves and others to be human in the midst of the corporate world and its demands.

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A creative career path led Ligaya to 天美视频: instead of attending college, she chose to take a correspondence course on interior design and worked at a furniture store where she was introduced to the world of entrepreneurship. After being a self-employed bookkeeper for a decade, Ligaya responded to a Craigslist posting for an accounting position 鈥揳nd she got the job, arriving at 天美视频 in 2012. As a half-Filipina woman who previously applied for numerous college scholarships unsuccessfully, Ligaya finds another full-circle moment in her career with her work on the scholarship committee, awarding deserving recipients, while getting to know their unique stories.

A Missionary Kid who grew up in the Philippines, Ligaya appreciates those who truly love serving and helping others. In high school, she worked in an office, served as class Treasurer, traveled, and sang with the Gospel Team. Now she works in an office, deals with the Treasury at the Department of Education, travels with her husband and sons, and occasionally sings at local churches (and at 天美视频)… then and now have similarities, just leveled up!

Water gives her life. Ligaya and her sons are most happy around any body of water, whether it’s at a giant water park or in kayaks at a small lake, or on an island like Maui, a post-pandemic treat! Her personal relationship with her Creator and Savior is at the forefront of all she does. Ligaya鈥檚 hope is to show agape love to all who cross her path while keeping it real.

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Sarah hails from the great state of Michigan, where much of her family still resides. She received her Masters in Divinity at 天美视频 of Theology & Psychology in 2012 and is delighted to be back in the 天美视频 community as part of the Allender Center Products Team. She received her certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Haden Institute in 2021. Outside of work, Sarah enjoys taking in live music with her husband, Kale, spending time with her Seattle nieces and nephew, and wild swimming in Puget Sound.

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While she has worked in a variety of mental health settings, engaging emerging adults in meaningful therapy and investing in the聽development, training, and mentoring of the next generation of deeply human and present clinicians have been her passions. Before joining the faculty of 天美视频 in 2024, Dr. Barton served in university counseling centers for 20+ years. She has taught undergraduate courses in psychology and world religions, directed the training program for masters and doctoral level counseling students at Pacific Lutheran University Counseling Services and served as the director of the Counseling Center at PLU.

Dr. Barton grew up in rural Washington State with a diverse denominational background and an appreciation for the joys, challenges, and opportunities for navigating the in-between鈥� spaces of identities, stories, and communities of belonging. In both her ongoing therapeutic practice and in walking alongside healers in training, Dr. Barton is interested in building capacity to be deeply present to self, other, and world; integrating head and heart knowledge in an embodied way; and facilitating enhanced agency and ownership of one鈥檚 own voice.

Beyond work, Dr. Barton believes in the importance of being engaged in community, family life, and connection with the natural world. She teaches courses in her faith community, serves on local neighborhood coalitions that support youth thriving, participates in her church worship band, enjoys board games and meaningful (and/or ridiculously fun) conversations with her partner and three children, and can regularly be found basking in God鈥檚 creation on local hikes or in National Parks.

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