Luena Darr is the President and Executive Director. She has been the coordinator of the ministry throughout the United States for the past 22 years. She was a former schoolteacher in Montreal, Canada. After coming to the United States she worked for the next twenty years in accounting and administrative roles. She currently oversees the ministry of Theotherapy and is an instructor at the seminars and facilitator training programs. She received her MA in Psychology from La Salle University.

Barbara O'Donnell has been with the ministry since 1982. She spent 30 years in direct sales and raised six children. She has facilitated for 15 years. She does private appointments for individuals, assists in the prison ministry and trains facilitators in several settings.

Cheryl Ehlers Ehlers is the Director in Pittsburgh and also the Director of Programs and Activities in Theotherapy. As such she helps plan all the seminars in Pittsburgh area and with the Local Directors of each area.. She developed and wrote a study guide for the small groups that are being used in conjunction with Dr Rivera's book Facing Unresolved Conflicts. She has been associated with the ministry since July of 1991. She trains and facilitates small groups called "Free to be Me" within the ministry and also in her church. She is a small group leader and coach of small groups at her church, Evangelical Free Church of McKeesport. She is married and has three children and two grandchildren.

Nancy Ellen S. Law, PHD, RN, our Director of Education, has been associated with this ministry since its beginnings in 1981 in Pittsburgh, PA.  Nancy Ellen has worked along side of us with dedication and has contributed greatly to helping us maintain the basic teachings given by the founder, Dr. Mario E. Rivera.  She is a gifted teacher and facilitator and has mentored many of our newer facilitators.  Her husband, Mel, who is deceased, served on our board of directors for many years, and also contributed greatly to the ministry.

Mark West is the Director of Prison Programs for Theotherapy Seminars, Inc. He holds a Masters Degree in Christian Education and serves as an instructor at seminars and facilitator training classes. In 2002, he established and implemented Theotherapy’s prison ministry and is responsible for interfacing with individuals within the judiciary as well as within the corrections community regarding the program and its relevance to corrections. Currently, he oversees the prison ministry in three Tennessee correctional facilities and one in Pennsylvania. Since 1982, he has served as a pastor, youth minister and worship leader. He, along with his wife Dana and their two children, live in Nashville.

Kim Whitehurst is the Director for Theotherapy in NC. He graduated from Western Carolina University with a degree in environmental health and a minor in psychology. He attended Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA and received a MA in Counseling. In 1991, he began working as a therapist for Associates in Christian Counseling. Kim specializes in the treatment of sexual addiction. Kim and his wife, Karen have been married for fourteen years and have six children.

Dorothy Dresser is the Director for Theotherapy in Jackson, TN. Dorothy has a BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts and is a trained Theotherapy facilitator. She has devoted the last 30 years of her life to being the fulltime mom of four children.

John Anast is the principle owner of Allegheny Productions-a multi media company- providing communications tools to its global clients for over twenty years. His company worked full time from 1986 through1993 providing communications to The Federal Bureau of Prisons. He attended Bowling Green State University of OH and ministry studies at Houghton College, NY. He served five years on the Board at The First Wesleyan Church of Bradford, PA and three years on the Bradford Area Christian Academy Board.

Mario E. Rivera-Mendez was born in the small town of Anasco, Puerto Rico in 1927. He was the youngest of twelve children, born to a middle class Roman Catholic family.

He received his early education in Rincon, Puerto Rico. He studied at the Polytechnic Institute of Puerto Rico-now the Inter American University-and the University of Vermont, where he studied pre-medicine. He attended Temple University where he did graduate work in Clinical Psychology. Later he attended the School of Physical Medicine of the University of Puerto Rico.

He became a registered physical therapist and a registered occupational therapist. Later he became a staff therapist and Psychologist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. From there he moved to Tallahassee, FL, where he served as Director of the Rehabilitation Center of that city. He was chosen godfather of all the crippled children of the state of Florida in 1959. It was his work as a therapist where he first began to notice the differences in the way persons healed physically based on their faith and their emotional health.

That same year, 1959, he moved to Atlanta to attend school. Dr. Rivera earned his Masters of Divinity at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, GA. Upon graduation he attended Princeton Theological Seminary where he studied briefly under Seward Hiltner.

He is an ordained Presbyterian Minister. After serving a Presbyterian Church in Columbus, GA he returned to his native Puerto Rico in 1964. There he established the Barbara Ann Roessler Memorial Church in San Juan. It has grown to be the largest Presbyterian Church in Puerto Rico. They have added a seminary, the Evangelical Theological Seminary of the Caribbean, located in San Juan. They also established an academy for children, the Barbara Ann Roessler Memorial Academy which registers over 700 students in pre-kindergarten through high school, to complete their local ministry.

He earned his doctorate at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA.

He developed the modality of Christian ministry called Theotherapy over the past 40 years. Dr. Rivera has traveled to many areas, including the United States, South and Central American countries and the United Kingdom, lecturing and holding seminars designed to bring healing to the broken body of Christ.

He is the author of several books including The Church as a Redemptive and Healing Community, Free To Be Me, Pulling Down Hangups, and Facing Unresolved Conflicts as well as the Mental Hygiene tape series.

Mario is married to the former Rosita Vega and is the father of six grown children and the grandfather of many. He sees himself as "merely a weak servant of a mighty King."