Do you need victory over porn addiction, your sex life, or the pain of betrayal?

You're not alone. We're here to help you forge a new direction, heal from infidelity, and embrace hope for your future.

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You want your life to be restored. We know the way.

We created a safe place just for you, based on our Biblically grounded resources that answer your deepest needs.

But your feelings of fear, shame, or depression can get in the way of asking for help, keeping you isolated and suffering. Please know that you will be accepted here with compassion and grace because we personally understand firsthand your concerns.

We help men fully heal from porn addiction, and women, the devastation and trauma of betrayal. Through profound course redirection, many restore and strenghten their marriages, and ultimately find peace and thrive in the process. Thankfully, it is possible for every man and every woman to be restored, and we look forward to guiding you through the process.

Our PRIVATE Restoration GrouPs

Learn about our private Local or Mobile healing groups

Your first step on the avenue to restoration, guided by our Certified Group Facilitators and our transformational healing curriculum, which has been forged and proven in our small groups since 1995, helping thousands of men and women to restore their lives.

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DISCOVER THE POWER OF GROUP HEALING

Why Restoration Groups?

Healing is an individual experience, and yet being in an authentic community with shared needs and goals, guided by Certifed Group Facilitators who are open about their own life, accelerates the way to healing. Our small groups provide this intimate community. People in individual counseling generally recover more slowly. The best counselors understand this, and so they refer their clients to be part of small groups simultaneously with their individual counseling, because they have witnessed that among their client's who are attending groups, they experience a significant catalyst in their recovery.

COUNSELOR EXPERIENCE

Shepherd's House Counseling Centers

REFERENCE: SHEPHERD'S HOUSE COUNSELING CENTERS
Excerpt from article 'Therapy is Not Enough' https://www.shepherdshouseinc.com/

"Shepherd’s House Inc. Counseling Centers provide nearly 1,200 counseling appointments monthly.

Through 50 years of clinical experience with wounded clients, followed by full assessment of their patient outcomes, that led Shepherd’s House to conclude that people heal in authentic, God-centered relationships and families – and people without these resources recovered much more slowly, if at all.

Because of this learned understanding, their therapy model changed long ago to be based on a group - community of clients in various stages of recovery, led by counselors who are open about their own life."

Dr. James Wilder, Author

Psychology Today

REFERENCE: PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
Excerpt from the article 'The Aftermath of Trauma'
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-aftermath-trauma

"There will never be enough mental health professionals, like me, to help every person who is living with PTSD. This is because sufferers live in a world where ongoing trauma is a fact of life and much of their ability to deal with this is determined by the community around them. Our society needs to become trauma-informed and each of us needs to live a more trauma-informed life.”

Shaili Jain M.D., author, professor of psychology at Stanford, Medical Director of the Primary Care-Behavioral Health Team, VA Palo Alto.

Life Model Works

REFERENCE: LIFE MODEL WORKS
Excerpt from the book ‘Living From The Heart Jesus Gave You’,
https://www.amazon.com/Living-Heart-Jesus-Gave-You-ebook/dp/B078KS1WL9

Written by Counselors to help Counselors and those in need; a blueprint for healing in community.

"The shortcomings of therapy are becoming easier to recognize, if the client's only open interactions are with a therapist, when they live in a world where honesty is denied or punished.

As example, where the biological family is unhelpful, broken or abusive, and detrimental in the healing process, and the client is presently challenged in our modern world to find a loving community. When a ‘virtual community’ is substituting for close relationships, where people don't reveal their true self, are judgmental and abusive in that space, it creates harmful isolation.

In that too common relationship vacuum, we believe it's God’s plan to bring a spiritual family together into a person’s life, who will spend real time together, be honest and caring, and become life-giving in ways that are not being provided in today's 'virtual communities' or the biological family."

James Friesen, Dr. Jim Wilder, Ann M. Berlin, Rick Kopecke, Maribeth Poole, Counselors, Authors.

Here's Hope

Fortunately, restoration isn’t just for the lucky few...it’s for you! AVENUE works for every person who is willing, no matter how difficult your circumstance. Our inspired tools will give you the knowledge, the direction and the people you need right now, to guide you to a new beginning.

If you're hopeless right now, we'd love for you to read the testimonies on these pages. They're a few of the many wonderful men and women whose lives have been profoundly restored, and we know that the very same is possible for you, so take a moment and watch this!

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K Love

FamilyLife Today

"I've known Clay and Susan for decades. They've been pioneers, helping, healing and setting the captives free from sex addiction, walking men through to restore sexual integrity, and women from betrayal, all across the country. I send my clients to them. A great program of biblically sound materials and among all the sexual recovery movement they've really mastered discipleship, accountability and healing the brokenhearted."

Founder and President of AASAT - Dr. Doug Weiss

American Association for Sex Addiction Therapy

We understand because we've been there too.

"We lived through this brokenness, so we truly understand your needs, firsthand. We restored our lives and we know what it really takes to change, overcome and heal. In the decades following our own victories, we dedicated ourselves to helping men, women and couples attain lasting restoration and new meaning in their lives. God informs our understanding and experiences, so that His wisdom guides us, and the person in need.. We know how to help you be restored, no matter your struggle and situation, even what you believe no one will understand."

Founders/Counseling Pastors Clay & Susan Allen

Restore your life today

"Today I am a walking miracle because God touched my life, my whole life, through Avenue."

"Because of AVENUE and the grace of Christ, I have my family back."

"AVENUE helped me heal the hurt and pain from my childhood."

"In Avenue I have found the way to get out and stay out of sexual bondage."

"With the AVENUE groups and a lot of prayer, we began the path to real recovery together."

AVENUE changed my whole life!

"...so prosperous will your future be." Job 8:7

AVENUE WORKS!

Our processes are comprehensively designed for your unique needs.

You can begin right here.

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