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Consultations

Consultation is available for clinicians as well as businesses.

Topics for Consultation include but are not limited to:

  • Understanding and Treating Mood Disorders Today
  • Differential Diagnosis
  • Marriage, Separation and Divorce and the impact on clients; the impact on clinicians
  • Life in Recovery from Addictions
  • Addictions and Personality Disorders
  • Spirituality in the Treatment Room
  • Agnosticism and Atheism in the Treatment Room
  • Creating a safe haven for clients; assessing triggers in our treatment areas
  • Using Mindfulness and Meditation in treatment
  • Understanding and using the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions in the Treatment Setting
  • Title IV Concerns, Issues and Actions

If you have a topic that you would like to study further, please let me know.

Individual Consultation Includes:

  • Case by case consultation
  • Learning and review of treatment strategies for specific disorders
  • Deeper discussion of workshop topics; application of workshop topics
  • Focused attention on papers, essays and other professional literature that enhances your learning curve on a specific topic
  • Assessments of cases and discussion of treatment
  • Counter-transferential issues
  • Mentoring

Title IV Canon Consultation Includes:
[Via On Site visit, Office visit or Telephone support]

  • Case review and assessment
  • Individual and Group Assessment Interviews and Information Gathering
  • Recommendations for the Individual
  • Food for thought: problem solving actions
  • Assessment and Recommendations for healing of individuals and groups
  • Education, for individuals and groups, of dynamics in play for each case
  • Problem solving as needed for decision making
  • General Support
  • Referrals for Psychological Testing and Assessment

Group Consultation Includes:

  • Process oriented groups
  • Literature discussion groups
  • Specific topic groups
  • Monthly group consultation
  • Mentoring

EMDR Consultation:

While I do not serve as an EMDRIA certified consultant, I am often asked to review EMDR strategies when working with individuals who struggle with sex addiction and cybersex addiction issues as well as the specific issues faced by family members of addicts and sex addicts.

Study Groups:

  • Meet monthly for 60 to 90 minutes depending on group consensus
  • Focus on a specific topic
  • Chapters and essays from professional literature are sent out to participants prior to each meeting so that participants can be prepared to discuss and apply points to clients

Current Consultation Study Group offerings include:

The Process Addiction Consultation GroupMeets on the first Monday of the month for 5 months.

Topics Include:

  • Classic Sex Addiction
  • Cybersex Addiction
  • Gambling Addiction
  • Eating Disorders
  • Personality Disorders and Process Addictions

The Personality Disorders Consultation Group meets on the second Monday of the month for 5 months.

Topics Include:

  • Anti-social Personality Disorder
  • Borderline Personality Disorder and Differential Diagnosis
  • Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Differential Diagnosis
  • Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder and Differential Diagnosis
  • Schizoid and Schizotypal Personality Disorders

The 12 Step Consultation GroupMeets the third Monday of the month for 5 months. This group is for clinicians who are seeking more information about the 12 Step programs their clients are involved in. We explore the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, as they apply to treatment, in greater detail.

Topics Include:

  • Steps 1, 2 and 3: The Acceptance Steps
  • Steps 4, 5 and 6: Accountability
  • Steps 7, 8 and 9: Working on new behaviors
  • Steps 10, 11 and 12: Maintenance Steps
  • Understanding the 12 Traditions in the treatment framework

Self Care

  • Clinician Know Thyself
  • Consultation
  • Individual Treatment
  • Speaking Engagements
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