House of Peace Pubs
Domestic Abuse, Coercive Control, Mental Health, and Child Abuse Prevention Education & Training
Debra Wingfield, Ed.D., LPC (retired)
With over 50 years experience, Dr. Debra educated psychotherapists in small group trainings and university classrooms for 15+ years. Dr. Wingfield was in private practice for 20+ years focused on treating Adult Children from Dysfunctional Families; Child Abuse Victims; Domestic Violence/Coercive Control Victims, Offenders, and Children who experienced Coercive Control.
She has presented trainings, conferences, workshops, and classroom courses in Domestic Violence/Coercive Control Intervention/Treatment, and Addictions related to Domestic Violence/abuse/Coercive Control for over 30 years. Now these up-dated courses (from her classroom curriculum) and training workshops are made available to you virtually.
Dr. Debra has authored several books based on her psychoeducation programs for adult children from dysfunctional families. Currently, she authors books on interpersonal violence related to coercive control. Many of the processes in her books are incorporated into her training curriculums.
Featured Courses
Advocacy Training
Now you Get your cutting-edge Coercive Control Advocacy Training virtually in Partnership with Called to Peace Ministries
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence (IPSV)
Provide tools for advocates to feel comfortable about speaking with survivors. Advocates gain comfort in being able to hear the issues, be able to respond appropriately to the issues, avoid any kind of re-traumatization of the victim.
Parent Traumatized Children
Provide advocates insight and understanding of the challenges of parenting children who have experienced coercive control. Address practical methods and useful parenting techniques.
Redefining Resistance Training
Learn techniques to open the door to advocacy with domestic abuse/coercive control survivors. Advocates working with survivors of domestic abuse and coercive control may encounter resistance at times. This course explores the basis for resistance utilizing motivational interviewing and the stages of change model.
Advanced Training-Abuser Contracts, Accountability, Self-management Part II
Advanced Training-Female Abuser-1/Self-defending victim
The unique dynamics of females who abuse/self-defend are covered in this course. Women’s anger issues, race and class biases in women’s use of anger, self-defending victims to distinguish “self-defense” from “retaliation” or “perpetration” are addressed.
Advanced Training-Female-Abuser-2/Self-defending victim
Treatment providers address common misconceptions by victim/survivors use of self-defense tactics to protect their own safety and often the safety of their children through female court-ordered groups.
Advanced Training-Cognitive Distortions
The types of Cognitive Distortions and Thinking Errors commonly found in domestic abuse and coercive controllers interactions are the focus of this course. Interventions are provided with interactive role plays to help advocates assist survivors to understand and respond to abuser’s continued cognitive distortions.
Advanced Advocacy-Talk to Pastors
How to talk about Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control so Pastors and Counselors will Listen is presented by pastors, Biblical advocates, and coercive control experts.
Family Court Interpersonal/Domestic Violence Training/Education
Learn how you can make a difference for your clients and Give a Voice to Children. Change the Face of Family Courts to meet the needs of highly vulnerable children who were and are experiencing Coercive Control and Domestic Abuse through this Trauma-informed Coercive Control and Domestic Abuse Certification Training Program
Domestic Violence Intervention/Treatment Training
Discover A New Advanced Training System To Complete your Coercive Control and Domestic Abuse Intervention/Treatment
Provider Training
(based on Colorado Certification requirements) or Meet your Annual Continuing Education* Requirements…With Immediate Practice Integration after the first class session!
Interpersonal Violence/Coercive Control Assessments
Interpersonal Abuse/Coercive Control Assessments
Thank you for investing in yourself Bonus: In addition to your assessments, Dr. Debra will provide a 30 minute Free consultation to discuss your results and next steps
Advanced Training-Abuser Contracts, Accountability, Self-management
Focuses on treatment provider training to use tools and skills to intervene with abusers in treatment groups and teach abusers how to manage their abusive behavior, take accountability for their choices, and accept full responsibility for their actions.
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Our Mission
Our Mission
- Child abuse
- Experiencing or being a victim of domestic violence/coercive control
- Animal cruelty
- Alcohol and other drug abuse on children and the impact throughout their lives.
Our Mission & Focus
Repairing the world one person at a time, one family at a time
Imagine a world filled with strong families building strengths in their children.
Imagine a world where children are empowered by parents to maximize their potential.
Imagine a world where peace and cooperation are highly valued in every family.
We support a two-pronged approach to healing through intervention and prevention.
We support a major social change to teach healthy parenting and healthy relationship skills prior to birth to prevent the dysfunctional cycle from impacting future generations.
We offer Transformational Journaling for Healing Souls ™ programs and services to assist abuse/trauma survivors, adult children from dysfunctional families, and recovering addicts/alcoholics healing tools and skills.
Our most precious resource, our children must no longer be impacted by Adverse Childhood Trauma for our society to grow and move forward.
What we do
Provide education/experiential training to professionals
- Who want to deepen their knowledge of the dynamics of interpersonal and family violence, coercive control, and abuse that impact their practices
- Gain skills to implement their knowledge
- Apply new research-based knowledge and skills into their practice immediately
- Customized training and presentations available on request
Provide books and other educational materials
- Counselors, therapists, psychologists, family therapists, attorneys, and other professionals who want to deepen their knowledge and apply their skills in addressing interpersonal and family violence, abuse, and coercive control with their clients.
- General public interested in
- Healing childhood wounds caused by adverse childhood experiences/trauma.
- Healing adult trauma wounds from interpersonal violence/coercive control.
Courses offered in the following areas:
- Legal issues in domestic violence/coercive control advocacy and treatment
- Domestic/Interpersonal violence/coercive control victim issues
- Domestic/Interpersonal violence/coercive control offender evaluation and assessment
- Facilitation and treatment planning for domestic violence/coercive control intervention and treatment programs
- Family Court related Domestic/Interpersonal Violence issues
Consultation and Case Management:
- Protective parents, primarily mothers, going through custody or CPS proceedings on selected cases for victim/survivors of domestic/interpersonal violence and coercive control.
Educational materials:
- General public interested in healing from childhood wounds. Learn more here in “From Darkness to Light: Your Inner Journey”
- Abuse survivors and their children to heal from experiencing coercive control and domestic abuse. Books located here.
Since 1988, Dr. Wingfield developed and presented workshops for professionals to provide services to their clients who were impacted by domestic violence/coercive control and child abuse.
Now, you can access those workshops through our virtual training center.
For more information, please contact us or call our international headquarters 719-251-0618.
Our Vision
A world free of domestic violence/coercive control and child abuse: Every child and adult are held precious as gifts to be nurtured and guided to lead healthy, productive lives.
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