Clinical Psychologist Dr. Stephanie Bathurst Receives 2025 Global Recognition Award for Innovation in Relational Healing
PRESS RELEASE: Clinical Psychologist Dr. Stephanie Bathurst Receives 2025 Global Recognition Award for Innovation in Relational Healing
Hawaiʻi — Dr. Stephanie Bathurst, a Hawaii-based clinical psychologist and relational health innovator, has been honored with a 2025 Global Recognition Award for her groundbreaking contributions to relational healing, therapeutic innovation, and public mental health education.
The international award recognizes excellence across the dual categories of Service and Innovation, evaluated using the Rasch measurement model to ensure rigorous, linear comparison across applicants. Dr. Bathurst received top-tier ratings across all thirteen assessment criteria, including community impact, sustainability, novelty, market influence, technological advancement, and paradigm disruption.
Dr. Bathurst is the creator of Relationship Energy Theory, an integrative clinical framework that merges evidence-based psychotherapy with nervous system-informed, somatic, and attachment-focused methodologies. Her work addresses a long-standing gap in traditional mental health care, particularly in cases involving betrayal trauma, attachment injury, and chronic relational distress.
Over the course of her clinical career, Dr. Bathurst’s methodologies have supported the repair and stabilization of more than 2,800 marriages, with outcomes documented through consistent five-star client reviews and case-based evidence of restored trust, emotional safety, and relational resilience.
Advancing Clinical Standards Through Integrated Methodologies
Dr. Bathurst’s proprietary frameworks—including Flow Relationship Energy Theory and the 8 Forms of Intimacy model—challenge the limitations of conventional long-term psychotherapy models that often struggle to produce meaningful progress in complex relational trauma cases. Her approach integrates EMDR-informed trauma resolution, somatic processing, vagal toning, pelvic floor-based intimacy restoration, and breath-centered regulation techniques to deliver high-impact outcomes in significantly condensed timeframes.
An eight-time award-winning clinician, Dr. Bathurst has also expanded beyond private practice to build large-scale educational ecosystems through digital platforms. These channels provide clinically informed psychoeducation on emotional regulation, attachment security, and intimacy repair—free of charge—to thousands worldwide.
“This approach succeeds where conventional therapy often plateaus,” Dr. Bathurst stated. “We’re offering a path to psychological safety and sustainable relational health without compromising clinical rigor, ethics, or evidence-based standards.”
Democratizing Access to Specialized Relational Care
A central pillar of Dr. Bathurst’s work is accessibility. Through her free assessment tool, MyFlowTypes.com, individuals can identify their Relationship Energy Type and gain actionable insight into communication patterns, nervous system responses, and attachment dynamics—concepts traditionally reserved for advanced clinical settings.
Her scalable educational model has proven globally transferable, supporting individuals and couples across diverse cultural contexts. By translating complex psychological and neurobiological principles into intuitive, practical tools, Dr. Bathurst’s work disrupts generational patterns of emotional disconnection while promoting relational literacy and self-responsibility at a population level.
“We’ve created a replicable model that delivers world-class clinical outcomes while ensuring essential relational knowledge reaches communities historically excluded from specialized care,” she explained.
A New Standard for Therapeutic Impact
The 2025 Global Recognition Award underscores Dr. Bathurst’s rare dual achievement: advancing the science of relational healing while simultaneously expanding access to it. Her work demonstrates that clinical excellence and mass education can coexist—producing measurable outcomes for individual clients while strengthening family systems and communities worldwide.
From her base in Hawaiʻi, Dr. Bathurst operates clinical services, immersive retreats, professional training programs, and digital education platforms that redefine how relational health is understood, delivered, and sustained.
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https://www.bathurstfamilytherapy.com
Assessment Tool:
https://www.myflowtypes.com
