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So sorry for the circumstances that have brought you to Hope Redefined, however, we are grateful you have found a place where you can find support and encouragement as you grow from the trauma and impact of sexual betrayal in your life.
You have made it through an introductory call and have likely signed up for a coaching package. Below you will find the links to necessary information as well as helpful resources.
Let's Get Started
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Complete your forms:
- Coaching Intake Form
This form needs to be completed if you will be participating in ANY coaching within Hope Redefined. This form is to help us, your coaches, get to know you better prior to the group starting. Your responses will remain confidential and will only be shared with the Hope Redefined coach you are working with. - Read and Accept our Hope Online Community Agreement
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Things You Will Need:
- A Journal
- Ability to meet with your coach via Zoom
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Join our community!
- If you are not currently a member of Hope Online, it’s time to join us here. This will be where ALL of our group communications will take place when you are part of a group.
- If are already a Hope Online Community member, you will have your login information set already.
- Take a moment to consider joining the community of Hope Online! Here’s a video that shows you the ease of using Hope Online and the benefit of connecting with other women through a safe platform.
- If you get stuck, reach out to our Communities Manager, Tami Rhymes tami@hoperedefined.org
FAQs
Lyschel Burket, PCC, FRLC, APSATS-CPC, ADOH, CDGC, CMC, has been working with women since 2008 as they take steps toward healing and their pursuit of God. She has facilitated support groups specific to partners since 2013 both locally in Knoxville, TN and online through Vicki Tiede Ministries. Lyschel has coached with women navigating their betrayal story since 2017. She specializes in Full Therapeutic Disclosure support/coaching.
She is the Lead Hope Caster and Founder of Hope Redefined. She desires to be a part of something so much bigger than herself as she continues to expand the reach of support for women who are facing similar things to her own recovery story. She lives in Lenoir City, TN with her five kids. Lyschel has been on the road of recovery since 2006.
Renee Adams, CPC and ADOH-trained peer facilitator, is a C-SASI (Christian Sex Addiction Specialist International) candidate with a deep heart for women facing betrayal trauma and abuse. Having walked through her own journey of betrayal, mental illness, homeschooling, foster parenting, ministry, and more, she understands the layered challenges that come with healing.
Through coaching, therapy, and support groups, Renee experienced God gently leading her from isolation into light and truth. These spaces offered her safety, clarity, and the strength to set boundaries and seek peace for herself and her children—even in the midst of her husband’s bipolar disorder and ongoing struggles.
Now, Renee feels called to walk beside other women, offering the same compassion, prayer, and Spirit-led support that helped her. She believes in the power of hope, healing, and small, courageous steps toward restoration as beloved daughters of God.
She holds tightly to Hebrews 10:23, 35–36, trusting in the faithfulness of the One who heals. Renee lives in Indiana near her two adult sons, homeschools her younger children, and enjoys worship music, porch-sitting, and game nights with her family.
Sharon Jackson is an APSATS-Certified Partner Coach, an ERCEM-trained Couples’ Specialist and a trained Disclosure Guide Coach. She has over a decade of experience supporting women impacted by infidelity and betrayal trauma. She has coordinated women’s betrayal church ministry and led betrayal partner support groups since 2014 and is A Doorway of Hope–certified Peer Facilitator (ADOH / C-SASI). Her work is grounded in both professional training and lived experience as a betrayed spouse. In addition to life coaching, she has 20 plus years of experience as a successful business entrepreneur.
As a Christian coach and a minority woman, Sharon is passionate about serving women from diverse cultural backgrounds and honoring how cultural values, family expectations, and faith traditions influence betrayal recovery. She also works with therapists and “helping” professionals who are betrayed partners themselves. Sharon’s coaching provides support for women who are accustomed to holding space for others, the opportunity to focus on their own healing.
With training in Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model (ERCEM), Sharon holds space for couples seeking reconnection and healing after sexual betrayal. She guides couples in repairing relational wounds, restoring emotional safety, and moving toward a new, redeemed relationship grounded in truth, accountability, and hope. Sharon understands firsthand the added complexity of recovery when betrayal occurs within marriages where one partner holds a licensed or publicly visible professional role.
Sharon’s Personal Mission:
Proverbs 20:5: “The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has understanding draws them out.” Your healing lies within you, and I will walk with you as we travel along this unintended journey.
Sharon is currently married to her husband of 40 years and has two adult daughters. Her favorite things to do for self-care include devotional time, exercise, taking vacations, or any self-pampering activity.
Shawna Meek, PCC, CPC-S, has a deep and personal understanding of the complex attachment challenges that can remain in a marriage—even after sobriety from problematic sexual behavior. Her own journey began in 2000, and after years of mentoring women through similar struggles, she sensed a clear calling from the Lord to pursue formal coaching. This led her to extensive training and certification with APSATS (Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists) as a Certified Partner Coach.
Shawna is the author of Determined for More, a powerful reflection on her 25-year marriage journey. She specializes in supporting women navigating betrayal trauma and works with couples in neurodiverse marriages, offering insight, compassion, and practical tools for healing.
As a Brainspotting practitioner, Shawna works with clients around the globe through individual coaching, couples' workshops, podcast interviews, and by supervising other professionals in the field.
She and her husband, Kevin, live in Gilbert, Arizona, and share a powerful testimony of redemption—a journey marked by divorce, remarriage, separation, sexual betrayal, and the discovery of neurodiversity in their relationship. Together, they are parents to four children—both biological and adopted—spanning all stages of life.
Shawna believes wholeheartedly that God is at work in every story. No matter the outcome, He brings hope—even in places that once seemed hopeless.
Jean Mudry, ACC, APSATS-CPC, CDGC, TICC, ADOH, has supported women through coaching and groups since 2018. She specializes in helping women navigate the full therapeutic disclosure process. After experiencing betrayal, she partnered with a coach who became a source of hope and strength throughout her healing journey. Now, she offers that same hope to God’s hurting daughters, believing that courage is contagious and healing is possible.
Jean and her husband of 34 years have two adult children, are empty nesters, and live in Missouri with their dog, Riley. Before becoming an APSATS partner coach, she was a public school teacher and homeschool mom. Jean enjoys hiking and biking in the great outdoors with her husband and loving on her grandson, Lucas.
Jacquelyn Petersen, ACC, APSATS - CPC, A Doorway Of Hope peer facilitator trained, trained Disclosure Guide Coach -- first experienced betrayal in 2006, is a survivor of breast cancer, and recently descended another valley of grief with the loss of both parents.
Honored to come alongside partners in this healing road, Jacquelyn is dedicated to creating a safe, empathetic and supportive space where you can be heard, seen, and understood. Jacquelyn is an ally on this road to healing, empowering women to cultivate safety, exploring needs, establishing healthy boundaries, navigating loss, connecting her values and vision for the future with resilience and strength.
Originally from New Brunswick, Canada, Jacquelyn resides in Dallas, Texas with her dog Ice and two fabulous young adult daughters. Her sweet spot is by the water: lakes, rivers and the ocean, whether it be hiking, kayaking or reading by the water, drinking in the beautiful, fluid places.
Jill Pool, (ACC, APSATS-CPC, trained Disclosure Guide Coach, trained Relate-Strong coach and A Doorway Of Hope-certified peer facilitator) has a passion for helping hurting women because she’s been there herself. For years, Jill sought to heal alone, but her true recovery journey began when she embraced vulnerability and sought help.
After walking through trauma-induced aphasia where she literally couldn't form words to speak, Jill aims to be a "voice for the voiceless," supporting betrayed wives with clear language and definitions to help them better articulate their experiences. Jill’s specialties include creating insightful recovery resources for women, illuminating the trauma of emotional betrayal, and proactively educating pastors and churches to ensure effective support for betrayal trauma survivors.
Her story includes navigating betrayal through multiple pregnancies and while parenting a medically fragile child, grieving the loss of a child, and raising children into adulthood and marriage.
Jill and her husband, Alonso, have been married for over 28 years and are the homeschooling parents of 12 children. Jill will soon be a grandma. Originally from Indiana, she and her family have lived in Tennessee for the last decade. She enjoys sunset walks along the river, family games, and digital design.
Alison Ruhter, Certified Professional Coach, APSATS-CPC, passionate about serving others and supporting woman in their healing journey after the devastation of sexual betrayal. A partner herself, she has experienced betrayal trauma and has walked the rocky road of separation. With her personal and professional experience, she fully understands the deep pain and confusion that sexual betrayal brings.
Alison loves the Lord and seeks Him in her daily life. He has been her great comforter and provider in her own healing journey. Over a decade ago, the Holy Spirit spoke to Alison and said He would use her story for His good and not waste the deep pain she was experiencing. It didn’t make sense at that time, but she knew God would be faithful. He has opened doors and provided a clear path of becoming a professional coach. She is now dedicated to joyfully serving other women with great compassion and empathy.
Alison was married for 20 years and has three children. She has had the privilege to have lived on the east coast, upper mid west and west coast. She now resides in the great state of Texas in the northern suburbs of Dallas. In her free time, Alison leads a betrayal group at her church and delights in worshiping the Lord through playing the violin with the worship team. She is both a dog and cat lover, a Cowboy’s football fan, loves to kayak and is refreshened by a cold glass of unsweetened iced tea on a hot Texas day.
Michelle Russell, MA, LPCC, BCC, APSATS-CPC, A Door of Hope peer facilitator-trained, CDGC-trained, understands from personal experience the challenges and difficulties encountered while journeying through life. After dealing with cancer as a young adult, experiencing infertility, failed adoptions, and other losses, she felt God calling her to walk with others as a licensed counselor. In 2020, she learned of her husband’s lifetime sexual addiction, and after 37 years of marriage, she began yet a new journey, clinging to the God who had never left her. Michelle pursued her own healing, and God birthed a passion in her to become a life coach in order to serve and support other women who are walking similar paths. In all of the pain, confusion, and devastation that sexual betrayal leaves behind, Michelle firmly believes that the good plans God has for her and others cannot be changed by the actions of someone else, even the betrayal of a spouse. Michelle feels privileged to partner with others as they grow more and more into who God created them to be—without this, life’s harmful effects which have shaped all of us.
Michelle is a board-certified coach, and APSATS Certified Partner Coach, a trauma and resilience coach, and a grief coach. She facilitates groups for women who have experienced sexual betrayal and she works with betrayed partners as they negotiate the healing process through gaining safety and stability, establishing boundaries, navigating the disclosure process, and finding hope in what looks only to be ashes. Michelle has a variety of fuzzy-faced children that most people call pets. She enjoys living in rural Ohio, exploring the countryside on her bike, hiking, walking, and spending time with Jesus and other friends.
Lyschel Burket is the Lead Hope Caster and facilitator for Finding Hope Support Groups. Lyschel can be contacted at support@hoperedefined.org.
Kristen Kelley, kk@hoperedefined.org, is our Ministry Support and can assist with payment questions, scheduling issues or any additional ministry needs.
Alicia Hall is the Media and Content coordinator, as well as the administrator for groups. Alicia can be reached at alicia@hoperedefined.org.
Rhonda Thomas is the communications manager for Hope Online. If you have problems accessing the Hope Online Community, or questions navigating the site, please reach out to her at rhonda@hoperedefined.org.