Christian Caregiver Conference and Resources

Deborah Dunn, LMFT is a licensed Marital and Family Therapist in private practice near Raleigh, N. C. She has been providing counseling services in a variety of roles for over 25 years all over the state. Recently, her conviction that churches needed to be doing more to reach out to their communities in crisis has led her to form a nonprofit, Community in Crisis, Inc. and a corporate crisis training company International Disaster Education Associates, Inc.

Deborah has a great deal of experience dealing with caregivers, and understand their compassion fatigue, having been a caregiver a number of years. Her interest is in teaching the church how to form counseling ministries and disaster teams that can reach out to the elderly, handicapped, and families with members in nursing homes that might have to deal with disaster situations.

In addition to her counseling and disaster ministry, she teaches conferences, workshops, and women's retreats based on the Original Design, a program that helps women and couples shed unrealistic expectations of marriage, and turn their hearts toward God's plans for their lives.