Orthodox Women in the Healing Ministries

32nd Annual Retreat - October 3, 4, and 5, 2025 

Our speaker for 2025 is Corina Gheorghiu

Care, Over-Care and the Will of God: Keeping Your Sanity While doing the Will of God!

Corina is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist, a Dentist and a Holistic Life Coach trained in a variety of psychosomatic modalities. She is a spiritual daughter of Schemanun Siluana Vlad. Corina speaks at many retreats and conferences. Her main interest is the integration of the Orthodox psychotherapy of the deep heart, as the fathers of the ancient church taught us, and also validated by neuroscience, epigenetics, and some modern methods of psychotherapy. She is a co-translator of Mother Siluana's God Where is the Wound, Offering Ourselves, We Enter Into His Joy - Conversations with Young People and 365 Mornings with Mother Siluana, available at St George  Press. https://stgeorgepress.com/

Registration is OPEN!

 Orthodox Women in the Healing Ministries was founded in 1992 with the mission of providing support to Orthodox Christian women who work in the medical and healing professions. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers and counselors.

In addition, from the inception of OWHM the founders defined all women as persons who "minister to others," including priest's wives, teachers, students, mothers and the like, and believe they would benefit from our retreat.

Our primary means of providing support to those who minister to others, is by sponsoring an annual three day retreat, which includes time for prayer, rest and reflection, opportunities for networking, and lectures given by outstanding speakers. We are grateful to have Mother Gabriella, Abbess of Holy Dormition Monastery as our spiritual director.

Some of our past speakers have included Archimadrite Roman Braga, Drs. Dan & Jane Hinshaw, Fr. Dusan Koprivica, Archbishop Lazar Puhalo, Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes, Fr. Thomas Hopko, Fr. Hans Jacobse,  Maria Molett, M.A., and Dr. Albert Rossi, Frederica Mathews-Green, Dr. Timothy Patitsis, Fr. Silviu Bunta, PhD., Fr. Stephen Muse, Ph.D., LMFT, LPC, Rev John Konkle, M.Div., Ph.D. and V. Rev. Dimitrie Vincent, M.Div, Dr Jeannie Constantinou and others. 

Ancient Faith Radio has recorded the OWHM retreat lectures since 2008 and can be heard at:   https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/orthodox_women_in_healing_ministries/