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Luena Darr has surmounted a lifetime of challenges, and now she’s in a position to help others do the same. Darr is the president and executive director of Theotherapy Seminars, Inc, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people better their lives through Christian-based training and seminars. Originally from Canada, she has been coordinating Theotherapy ministries throughout the United States for the past 29 years.
Darr decided to move to the United States.  “I left Canada, and my job as a Catholic school teacher in Montreal and moved to  San Diego, CA.” She enjoyed the warmer climates, but soon fell into an unhealthy relationship where she was  rejected again. “In 1968 I married a man who had four children of his own. I married for all the wrong reasons, I wanted to rescue the children from a mother that was severely abusing her children.  What I didn’t understand was that I was really trying to rescue my own little girl within”. But six years later, Darr realized that she could move on to better things. “In 1973, I experienced the Lord in my life, and time stopped. Jesus was the answer to my problems, so I began to study and learn.”
Darr had been working in the fields of administration and accounting, but her career took a different turn in 1981. She was asked to be a hostess to one of the speakers at the Charismatic Conference being held at Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, PA where she lived. She was appointed to Dr. Mario E. Rivera-Mendez from San Juan, Puerto Rico.  She was struck by his novel approach to religion-based therapy. “At the end of the seminar, I knew he had the answers to all my problems,” she recalled. “Dr. Rivera took me under his wing and taught me Theotherapy.”
Today, Darr oversees Theotherapy Seminars Inc., where she conducts God-given methods to impact the lives of hurting people by utilizing weekend seminars, workshops, Personal Growth and Ministry Training (PGMT) courses, weekly ministry/support groups and individual ministry. One innovative program, called The Theotherapy Project, offers help to prison inmates. By attending Theotherapy sessions, both in jail and after their release, convicted criminals can learn how to positively reintegrate into society. Theotherapy is currently operating out of 4 prisons in Tennessee and one in Pennsylvania.

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