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.

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.

BIOFEEDBACK TRAINING by Paige Peck

The Dorr Center also offers biofeedback training, for those with stress-related problems, such as anxiety, panic attacks, bruxism, teeth clenching, IBS, essential tremor, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, headaches, performance anxiety, difficulty during pregnancy, and many, many others. You can learn to self-regulate, so that your body's response to stress comes under your control, without medication. Our biofeedback therapist is board-certified and very experienced, and uses up-to-date Thought Technology computer programs.

COUPLES RETREATS

GODDESS WEEKEND RETREAT

This is a weekend of renewal and rebirth that is held at the Lotus Conference Center in Yogaville, Virginia. This workshop is 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 21, 2011 - Sunday, October 23, 2011 Cost: $525 includes room, board, and conference. ($475 if received by August 17, 2011.) Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express accepted. Click Here to email Gretchen at The Dorr Center.

Please contact Gretchen Dorr Horst, LCSW to register today.
Phone: 703.391.7380 x 1  •  Email:  thedorrcenter@bigplanet.com