About

The Allender Center is an institution housed within The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology.  Its threefold aim is to steward and advance the intellectual and professional legacy of Dr. Dan Allender, to train counseling professionals and lay workers in trauma and abuse therapy, and to provide hope, healing and transformation opportunities through conferences and workshops.

The effects of abuse are insidious and often hidden in the well forged walls of the human heart.  The Allender Center teaches therapists and survivors how to effectively engage stories of harm.  Trauma and abuse jeopardizes personal identities by negatively impacting the goodness, beauty, sexuality, capacity for intimacy, and the nature of the human heart. The work of the Allender Center is to engage these issues and teach others to courageously step into the realms of abuse on behalf of others.