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Family Relational Health Services International is a bible based family psychological educational program that is aimed at addressing the relational challenges faced around the world. It is anchored in the bible and 2 John verse 3 forms the basis and foundation in which Family Relational Health Services is based. The good book says ‘Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.’

Services include:

Individual Counseling

Family Counseling

Couple Counseling

Contact us on WeChat at 1-876-853-8888 / 1-876-327-7155 or email us at heartbonding@gmail.com to set up an appointment or to get more information about our relational health services.

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About Us

Founder Dr. Anthony L. Gordon (Ph.D.), Counseling Psychologist & Family Relational Health Specialist and retired Family Ministries & Counseling Services Director at Central Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventist, with his wife Mrs. Deloris A. Gordon, Counseling Psychologist and Special Educator, have over 30 years of international experience in the Caribbean, USA, Canada, Europe, Africa, and Middle-East providing relational health services.

In main stream society, when we hear the word health we are inclined to limit it to the understanding of the physiological aspect of health; that is the state and function of the body, but to the same extent that the absence of war does not necessarily mean peace, so it is that the absence of physical infirmities or diseases does not necessarily mean total health. Because there is another aspect of health that we need to focus on, and that is the psychological health which addresses the state and health of the mind.

Fundamental theory of Family Relational Health Services International:

All human relationships begin and continue to exist in the sound active mind. And to the same way the physician has vital signs that are used to evaluate the state of ones’ physiological health, so it is that vital signs are used to measure the state and quality of all relational health.

Vital Signs of Relational Health:

  1. How is the connection between you and him, and her, that is to say that significant person or those significant people in your life?
  2. How is the rapport between what we say and what we hear?
  3. How is the bond, that tie that keeps us together?
  4. How is the support of your relationships?

God would have us, based in his Words, to understand how critical of importance it is to cultivate healthy relationships. The quality of our relationships here on Earth, in our families, in our churches, in school and workplaces, determines to a large extent the quality relationship with have with Christ and we as look forward to be being with the Saints of old ages we must learn to dance at home, that is to say to live good quality family life here in preparation for the life to come. God bless you richly.

Recent Seminars & Sermons

  • Dr. Anthony L Gordon: Episode 8 Upward Way Podcast
    Jan 24, 2021: Available on audible.com for free to listen too. Upward Way Podcast hosted by Marlon Walters on Adventist World Radio (AWR) Dr. Anthony L. Gordon spoke passionately about the transformational impact of Jesus’ Prayer Life his own life. He shared with us the value of Family Relational Health as well as the four (4) vital signs that are a cue to Relational Health.
  • The Health Use of Social Media – A COVID 19 Therapy Plan
  • Pandemic Family Enrichment – Night #10
    by People Loving People Online with Dr. & Sister Anthony Gordon on August 28, 2020.
  • Family Relational Health – A Biblical Priority
    This presentation by Dr. Anthony Gordon kicks off the Family Life Enrichment Series at the Ebenezer SDA Church in Grand Cayman, held on Sabbath, August 1, 2020.
  • Relationships for Eternity – Family Life Series
    Dr. Anthony L Gordon & Mrs. Deloris A Gordon present at Kigali SDA English Church starting on July 3, 2020, a five day family life series.
  • A Series For The Family – 4 Parts
    June 6 – 10, 2020 at Victory Seventh-day Adventist Church.
    • Maintaining Family Relational Health in a Time of Crisis
    • Making Home a Citadel of Peace
    • Family Relational Illnesses: Side-effects of the COVID 19 Pandemic
    • Grieving From a Distance
  • How Is Your Relationship Affecting The Function Of Your Mind?
    Available to listen to for free on Spreaker.com by Adventist Radio London
  • Relational and Spiritual Neuropathy
    October 12, 2019 at Beavercreek Seventh-day Adventist Church. Dr. Anthony Gordon, Speaker/Director of Family Relational Health Services delivers a message at the Creek on how to identify Relational and Spiritual Neuropathy and how to overcome these conditions.

More On Relational Health

The Missing Dimension in Holistic Healthcare

One of the most quoted Bible passages on health is ‘Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.’ (2 John 3.) Unfortunately, the Church, as in society, tends to limit the perspective of health to the physiological aspect which focuses on the state and function of the body—physically, anatomically, hormonally, chemically, and neurologically. etc.

This explains why questions about health are generally met with answers directly about the body. But to the same extent that the absence of war does not necessarily mean peace, so it is that the absence of physical infirmities or diseases does not necessarily mean total health, a fact endorsed by the World Health Organization.

There is another aspect of health which is implied in the Pauline counsel, which David captured in Psalm 139:14: ‘I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul (mind, conscience, heart…) knoweth right well.’ We should pay equal attention to our psychological health, which is the state and function of the mind — mentally, spiritually, emotionally, socially and relationally. This, however, is more than talking about ‘mental health,’ which tends to be a reactive sweeping generalization about mental illnesses and conditions as delineated in the DSM5.

Relational health, the least addressed of the five sub-aspects of psychological health, is the quality of the intra/interpersonal relationship that exists in the mind between persons, and is measured by the strength, intensity, trend and patterns of the four psychological vital signs of relationship: connection, rapport, bond and support. Since all human relationships begin, and continue to exist in the mind, then the matter of healthy relationships should be taken more seriously than it is.

There needs to be organized, systematic, measurable and treatable systems of care for relational health, because the state of the mind often influences the state and function of the body (psychosomatic health). The quality of the relational health at home between husband and wife, father and mother, parents and children and siblings is an indicator of the relational health at school, church, the workplace and in the society. Governments and NGOs invest multi-millions of dollars into research projects aimed at improving physiological healthcare, while society is reeling and writhing from the mayhem of crime, violence, social dislocation and destabilization. One reason for the diminishing returns and loss on these investments, which is subtly eating away at the human and economic capital and destroying the quality of life, is poor relational health. Balance needs to be promoted and maintained between these two main aspects of health in the interest of all concerned.