About Our Healing Process

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Gates of Hope Ministries is a nonprofit organization formed in 2020 when Dr. Jodi Handran published her book Restored. This book came out of her counseling experience and her heart toward those struggling with mental health challenges that truly were rooted in past sexual abuse.  Restored brings victims through the grief process of past sexual abuse and brings them to a place of overcoming it. Gates of Hope has multiple counselors available, across the United States. We work online with individuals and very small groups (2-3). We work individually and alongside other nonprofits who have the same heart for the wounded. These include residential treatment facilities, sex trafficking safe houses, as well as all local churches in order to help bring healing and hope to the body of Christ. 

More about our process;

Step 1: Identifying the wound: victims will be able to look at their story of sexual abuse and begin to really understand how it has bled into other areas of their lives.

Step 2: Taking an Honest Look: victims will further pinpoint how the enemy has robbed them and will specifically understand what healing with the Lord Jesus looks like. (example: Jesus will give me peace instead of turmoil).

Step 3: Whose fault is it anyway? We look at the US Department of Justice definition of rape and identify anything that applies to them. Victims will identify who is responsible for their sexual abuse. Victims will look at what God says about rape and what He thinks about what has happened to them.

Step 4: What Gets Broken? This step is all about looking at and mending the relationship between victims and Father God (father wounds) and Jesus (man wounds).

Step 5:  Lord God, I’m So Mad…… This step helps the victims identify, process and be heard concerning their anger.

Step 6: Now What Do I Do, Lord? This step is bringing our anger to a place of righteous anger, allowing victims to be angry with what happened to them, but not destructive in it.

Step 7: The Way of Freedom. What is forgiveness? And how do we forgive?

Step 8: More Freedom. Freedom from sexual soul ties with their abusers through prayer and understanding. Working through the shame connected to sexual abuse.

Step 9: Finishing Touches. Working through PTSD triggers, understanding society and what to do moving forward from this new place of healing. 

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