WE CAN’T CONTROL WHAT HAPPENS,
WE CAN ONLY CONTROL HOW WE REACT.
ABOUT US
0% of people in recovery stay clean and sober if they do not develop healthy relationships and a healthy support network. Why? It’s because 97% of people who struggle with addictions and mental health disorders also suffer from Complex Trauma and this rarely gets addressed.
RE/ACT develops programs, distributes content, and teaches people how to thrive beyond Complex Trauma. This type of healing takes up to 2 years for most people, which is why what we develop and offer is all long-term.
By joining a RE/ACT Centre, people will receive teaching of basic life skills and principles, new coping mechanisms, new relationship skills, building a healthy network of peers, and transitioning gradually into a healthy life environment. Coaching and mentoring is also available upon assessment.
Graduates of our RE/ACT Centre have a staggering 68%+ Recovery Rate. Contact us for further statistics.
RE/ACT Center Conroe is licensed by Tim Fletcher Co.
MEET OUR TEAM
Our team of extraordinary individuals have all answered a calling on their lives to serve the least of these.
Luke Redus
Luke Redus is the founder and CEO of Compassion United, Inc.. A nonprofit dedicated to empowering and equipping the poor, homeless and addicted to discover a new life that will restore their hope and transform their future. Luke previously worked in the Technology industry but has committed his life, full-time, since 2010 to the work of serving the forgotten and marginalized in our community. Because of his history, Luke can identify with the struggles and the mindsets that affect those in need and is able to help them overcome it.
He has been married to his wife, Karla for 27 years and they both serve as leaders in Compassion United. Luke has a passion for seeing nonprofits “Do good...well,” as such, he coaches other NPO leaders in our community, and beyond, who have a passion to make a difference. He is an ordained minister, Certified Trauma Recovery Coach, a graduate of Leadership Montgomery County.
Karla Redus
Karla Redus is the co-founder of Compassion United and has given her life to relief and empowerment of the poor and marginalized in Montgomery County for 2 decades. She currently serves as the Director of Empowerment and provides direct coaching and support to people experiencing homelessness, empowering them to transition into more resourced and healthy living.
Karla carries a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with an education endorsement from UTSA as well as a certification in the Tim Fletcher Compass Program. She combines years of practical experience with trauma informed knowledge and care to equip and empower clients.
Terri Watt
With nearly 12 years of dedicated service to Compassion United, Terri Watt has explored every facet of what it means to empower the homeless and marginalized in our community. She currently serves as Director of the Transition Housing Program and has helped to establish programs that are seeing record employment and long-term sobriety rates.
Terri’s passion is to create community and a sense of belonging for those without a support system. As a certified graduate of the Tim Fletcher Compass program, Terri combines her extensive past experience with up to date research and understanding of complex trauma. In addition to her professional credentials, Terri holds the title of grandmother.
Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) is a common denominator for all sorts of issues related to mental health and addiction. If we can heal Complex Trauma, we can heal the rest.
“Our brains are wired for connection, but trauma rewires them for protection. That’s why healthy relationships are difficult for wounded people.” - Ryan North
WHO IS TIM FLETCHER?
Tim Fletcher is the Founder and President of RE/ACT (Recovery Education for Addictions and Complex Trauma). He used his skills as a pastor and counsellor to develop a program to help the people he cared for overcome addiction. He realized the need for individuals to first become equipped with tools, and then put those tools into practice in a healthy, safe and loving environment - and herein lies his unique skill.
During his early years, he learned that everyone has a loved one who struggles with addiction, and many people struggled with unrealized addictions and unhealthy coping techniques. He found that 97% of addicts also struggled from Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) - corroborating the research of Dr. Gabor Maté. After researching C-PTSD which was identified as, “A series of events that occur where a victim feels unsafe, and as such, develops mental disorders which inhibit them from coping in stressful or harmful circumstances”, he concluded that research was showing that there is a physical difference between the brains of those who grew up in loving and nurturing homes and those who didn’t – before any addiction became prevalent.
He developed a list of 60 Characteristics of Complex Trauma and created seminars to go along with them. He later took his teachings about Complex Trauma a step further in the context of mental health issues. He described C-PTSD as, “An actual or realized ongoing experience during childhood which causes a youth to repeatedly feel unsafe or unloved, resulting in life-long mental un-wellness and unhealthy coping mechanisms.
His acts of service to his own community came from a place of overcoming weakness in his own life. Today, he wants to build awareness about Complex Trauma and gather support emotionally and financially for those who were struggling. The tagline “with love” promotes the organization as a judgement-free space where everyone is accepted regardless of their flaws - we just won’t leave you in the same place you showed up in.