Board Members
Doug Feil, M.S., is a licensed professional counselor, with over 40 years of full-time professional counseling with experience with a wide range of issues. For many years he was the Executive Director of a large counseling center in Littleton Colorado. He works with adults providing individual, couples and adult family counseling, and can counsel from a Christian perspective if desired.
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Doug uses a variety of therapeutic techniques including CBT, SFT and other strategies to aid in achieving meaningful outcomes. He believes in the use of homework with each session since real growth occurs in your life day to day. His areas of specialty include communication, healing after affairs, reconciliation, marriage enrichment, premarital counseling and divorce recovery.
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Additionally, he and his wife (Joyce) have a long and deep history of counseling and support with those involved in Christian missions and for mission sending organizations in their support role for those potentially going into the field, those currently in the field and those recently retired. For more information regarding Doug, his website is here.
Robert Velarde, has served Christian organizations since 1992, including Compassion International and Focus on the Family. He received his master's degree in religion from Southern Evangelical Seminary and is currently on the grants team with Living Water International, a Houston-based ministry. Robert has authored several books such as Conversations with C.S. Lewis, The Heart of Narnia, The Wisdom of Pixar, and A Visual Defense. He resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with his wife Jacquie. For more information regarding Robert, his website is here.
Douglas Groothuis holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy (University of Oregon, 1993) and in the fall of 2024, he will become Distinguished University Research Professor of Apologetics and Christian Worldview at Cornerstone University. He is the author of twenty books, beginning with the best-selling Unmasking the New Age (InterVarsity Press, 1986) and including the popular and voluminous textbook, Christian Apologetics, 2nd ed. (IVP Academic, 2022), as well as a memoir, Walking Through Twilight: A Wife’s Illness—a Philosopher’s Lament (InterVarsity Press, 2017), an introduction to philosophy, Philosophy in Seven Sentences (InterVarsity, 2016), and a book on the controversial topic of Critical Race Theory, Fire in the Streets (Salem Books, 2022). He co-authored the introductory textbook on apologetics, The Knowledge of God in the World and in the Word (Zondervan-Academic, 2022) with Andrew Shepardson.
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He has also published over thirty academic articles in journals such as Academic Questions and Philosophia Christi as well as dozens of pieces in publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Christian Research Journal. His encouragement to pastors appears regularly at "The Focused Pastor" on the Focus on the Family online portal and he writes about jazz at the All About Jazz website. For more information regarding Doug, his website is here.
Barbara Griffith was raised a casual Protestant in upstate NY near Binghamton, within view of the Susquehanna River. She came to Colorado in 1977 and married a geologist, and they both joined the LDS church (Mormon) in 1978 and just before her divorce she left this church in 1990 for a host of reasons. She went back to being Protestant (Lutheran). She is currently a third generation IT professional, with a master's degree from Regis University in Computer Information Technology. She now alternates most of her time between keeping her IT skills up to date and visiting her 5 grandchildren.
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Over the past several years she has sought to keep herself well-informed about the LDS church. She has also often made herself available for those with questions about Mormonism.Â
Wendy Duncan LBSW, is a licensed social worker and graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where she earned a master's degree in religious education. A former member of a Bible-based pseudo-Christian cult, she documented her experience and recovery journey in her memoir, I Can't Hear God Anymore: Life in a Dallas Cult.
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Following their departure from the group, Wendy and her husband, Doug, devoted themselves to understanding the impact of cultic involvement and spiritual abuse. Their personal journey evolved into a ministry focused on supporting individuals and families affected by high-control groups, religious trauma, and spiritual abuse.
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In recognition of their contributions to the field of cult recovery, Wendy and Doug were honored in 2025 with the Margaret Thaler Singer Award by the International Cultic Studies Association. Wendy's work is particularly centered on helping "wounded sheep"—individuals whose experiences of spiritual abuse have damaged their faith, trust, and relationship with God.
The Wounded Sheep program is endorsed by St. Matthew's Episcopal Cathedral, where Wendy and Doug are active members. In addition to her memoir, Wendy contributed a chapter on restoring one's relationship with God after spiritual abuse to the book Wounded Faith.
Through her coaching, writing, speaking, and ministry work, Wendy is dedicated to helping survivors of cultic and spiritual abuse find healing, reclaim their autonomy, and rebuild healthy, life-affirming faith. For more information regarding Wendy, her website is here.
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