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UPCOMING RETREATS AND WORKSHOPS - Click on a name for more detail
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Couples
Workshop - Rekindling the Passion - Deepening the Commitment
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Couples
Workshop - Deepening
the Intimate Bond in a Committed Relationship - Nov 2008
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Couples
Workshop - Deepening
the Intimate Bond in a Committed Relationship - Jan 2009
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Goddess Weekend Retreat
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Mother / Daughter Goddess Weekend Retreat
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 Opening
the doors to wellness!
The Dorr Center, LLC is a private counseling organization
focusing on the whole person. We take an integrative approach to emotional,
mental, physical, and spiritual wellness. Our focus is more on an individual's
strengths than any pathology. We believe in the innate worth of each individual
and his or her ability to heal and grow. As facilitators of that growth,
we offer individual, couples, group and family therapy.
Gretchen Dorr Horst, LCSW DAPA is a psychotherapist who has been in private
practice for over 30 years. Over the years she has offered counseling,
workshops, classes, retreats, and trainings for the Greater Washington
community. She has a Masters in Social Work, is a Licensed Clinical Social
Worker in the State of Virginia, and is a Diplomate of the American Psychotherapy
Association. Gretchen is able to offer traditional and non-traditional
forms of therapy with a mixture of Eastern and Western philosophies to
assist in an individual's return to Wellness.
- Director of The Dorr Center, LLC
- Seminar and Workshop Leader
- Transpersonal Counselor with a ministerial license from AIWP
(American Institute for the Whole Person)
- Reiki Master for over 14 years
- Member of NASW (National Association of Social Workers) since 1971
- Member of the American Psychotherapy Association since 2000
- Member of the ICAN program - The Women's Center, Vienna, Virginia
- Staff Consultant for Heartland Hospice, Fairfax, Virginia
HOLISTIC THERAPIES
EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
is a therapeutic technique that activates both right and left brain to
help clients process material more quickly without getting stuck in the
trauma. It has been very successful for such issues as PTSD (Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder), grief, anxiety disorders, phobias, and complex psychological
illness and problems. Gretchen has been trained in EMDR since 1992 and
is nationally certified.
ETT - Emotional Transformation Therapy is a new form
of interactive Psychotherapy that uses powerful techniques of visual brain
stimulation to access both symptoms and rapid therapeutic change of emerging
feelings. Color and light are used with a strobic machine to resolve and
uncover issues that the individual may be having. Gretchen has been trained
in five levels of ETT training and has been using this form of therapy
to assist her patients for 8 years.
Other Therapies used at the Dorr Center:
- Hypnotherapy
- Gestalt Therapy
- Voice Dialogue Therapy
- Solution Focused Therapy
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- Group Therapy
- Transpersonal Therapy
- Cognitive Therapy
- Family Therapy
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These techniques are used to safely and effectively allow the patient to
get to the root cause of their psychological challenge or trauma and receive
healing.
COUPLES RETREATS
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 Couples
Workshops - Rekindling the Passion - Deepening the Commitment
Who: A workshop for committed
couples limited to six committed couples to encourage a safe and
intimate setting. Register Early!
This is a workshop designed to bring the
passion and caring back into your life. You will be given the tools
on how to communicate better as well as exercises to deepen the
intimacy. You will renew your love in a comfortable and romantic
setting. At the end of the weekend you will be rejuvenated and have
the tools to take back into your life to maintain your renewed love.
Where: The Romantic Boardwalk
Plaza Hotel, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Participants enjoy a
comfortable informal setting overlooking the Atlantic.
When: Friday, February 6 through Sunday, February
8, 2009
Cost: $450 per couple: ($400 if received by December
1, 2008)
Includes workshop with Continental Breakfast Saturday and Sunday.
Room Rates: Standard Room Concierge Level, $109/night; Oceanview
King, $114/night; Oceanview Suite, $139/night Boardwalk
Plaza Hotel.
Who: Workshop limited to
six committed couples to encourage a safe and intimate setting.
Register Early!
Facilitators: Gretchen D. Horst with
her husband, Bill Horst.
Click
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Deepening the Intimate
Bond in a Committed Relationship
 This
romantic weekend allows you to go to a deeper spiritual level with
your partner. The attendees focuses on deepening the relationship
through the seven stages of trust, communicating verbally and non-verbally,
and using the relationship as a vehicle to develop love and acceptance
of Self. The exercises will assist the attendees to reach a deeper
level of trust with their partner.
Where: The Romantic Mimslyn
Inn, surrounded by acres of lawn and formal gardens, and located
in the historic Shenandoah valley in Luray, VA.
When: Friday, November 14 – Sunday, November 16, 2008
Cost: $499 per couple: ($449 if received by October
10, 2008)
Includes workshop with Continental Breakfast Saturday and Sunday,
refreshments Friday night and Saturday afternoon.
Room Rates:Block of rooms reserved at $145/night Mimslyn
Inn.
Who:
Workshop limited to six committed couples to encourage a safe and
intimate setting.
Register Early!
Facilitators: Gretchen D. Horst with
her husband, Bill Horst.
Click
Here to email Gretchen at the Door Center.
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Deepening the Intimate
Bond in a Committed Relationship
This romantic weekend allows you to go to
a deeper spiritual level with your partner. The attendees focuses
on deepening the relationship through the seven stages of trust,
communicating verbally and non-verbally, and using the relationship
as a vehicle to develop love and acceptance of Self. The exercises
will assist the attendees to reach a deeper level of trust with
their partner.
Where: The Romantic Boardwalk
Plaza Hotel, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Participants enjoy a
comfortable informal setting overlooking the Atlantic.
When: Friday, January 23 through Sunday January 25, 2009
Cost: $450 per couple: ($400 if received by November
15, 2008)
Includes workshop with Continental Breakfast Saturday and Sunday.
Room Rates: Standard Room, $79/night; Oceanview King, $124/night;
Oceanview Suite, $144/night Boardwalk
Plaza Hotel.
Who: Workshop limited to
six committed couples to encourage a safe and intimate setting.
Register Early!
Facilitators: Gretchen D. Horst with
her husband, Bill Horst.
Click
Here to email Gretchen at the Door Center.
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 GODDESS
WEEKEND RETREAT
A weekend of renewal and rebirth that is held at the Lotus Conference
Center in Yogaville, Virginia. This is a workshop open to women of all
ages who wish to get in touch with their own inner power and remember
the mysteries of Womanhood. The weekend is an opportunity to reclaim your
physical body as a vehicle for spirit and to access the deep wisdom within.
Come in and take in the sacred energy of the Center with its breathtaking
panoramic view of the Blue Ridge Mountains overlooking the scenic James
River. During your free time you may wish to enjoy a sauna, hot tub, or
a massage.
“The Goddess Weekend was most profound retreat that I have ever
attended! I found the weekend activities truly life changing and bonding
with other women empowering!”
BN Reston, VA.
When:
Friday, October 23, 2009 - Sunday, October 25, 2009
Cost:
$525 includes room, board, and conference.
($475 if received by August 17, 2009.)
Visa, MasterCard, Discover,
and American Express accepted.
Click
Here to email Gretchen at the Door Center.
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Mother
/ Daughter Goddess Weekend
This is for Mothers and Daughters who desire
to explore the Sacred Feminine together and strengthen and rejoice
in their special bond. It is also an opportunity to begin healing
the Feminine within the family. (I am charging a little less for
this, because some of the mothers are also paying for their daughters).
Where: Yogaville,
at the Lotus Conference Center
When: To Be Announced
Cost: To Be Announced
Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American
Express accepted.
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Here to email Gretchen at the Door Center.
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Please contact Gretchen Dorr Horst, LCSW to register today.
Phone: 703.391.7380 x 1
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