Topics discussed in this episode

🟣 How an education in forensic psychology led to a career working with families and in addiction counseling.🟣 Why Sabrina chose to specialize in supporting professionals with anger management and addiction

🟣 Biggest challenge of working with professionals

🟣 How TV, friends, and family negatively impact mental health and addiction stigma and how community events can positively reduce stigma

🟣 Intersection of recovery and queer identity - writing for QueerPsych and work on the LGBTQ+ NAADAC committee

🟣 How professional associations and coalitions help raise the bar for addiction professionals

🟣 Why baby steps count.

Addiction Podcast Guest:

Sabrina Vonderhaar, Founder, Sabrina Vonderhaar Counseling

🔗sabrinacounseling.com

LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrinavonderhaar

QueerPsych Article"It's not Just You: A Queer Person's Guide to Addiction and Mental Health" https://queerpsych.com/its-not-just-you-a-queer-persons-guide-to-addiction-and-mental-health/

IAAP iowaaddictionprofessionals.com

NAADAC the association for addiction professionals naadac.org

Mental Health America https://mhanational.org/NAMI

National Alliance on Mental Illness https://www.nami.org/

Guest location: Iowa

Addiction Podcast Host:⁠

Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠

Topics discussed in this episode

🟣Ryan's story from substance use to family man and recovery coach

🟣Working virtually as a Recovery Coach

🟣CCAR and career paths for people in recovery

🟣Southern culture and alcohol

🟣The good and bad of social media recovery influencers

🟣Risks of kratom

🟣Methadone Mile in Boston

🟣How at-home treatment makes people feel more comfortable and reduces the impact of stigma

🟣Detox, withdrawal management, and customized care from home

🟣 Harm reduction and MAT

Addiction Podcast Guest:

Ryan Foltz, Recovery Coach,

Pathfinder Recovery

🔗https://www.pathfinder-recovery.com

🔗LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-foltz-94732356

Guest location: Massachusetts

Addiction Podcast Host:

⁠Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠

Topics discussed in this episode

🟣Michael and Hannah discuss the career paths that led them to Pathfinder Recovery.

🟣How the virtual team treats individuals at home

🟣Using biometrics as predictors of relapse and to help with early intervention.

🟣How Dr. David Hendricks and Michael founded Pathfinder Recovery

🟣Expanding service to Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and the goal of expanding nationally.

🟣Becoming culturally competent when working in new states

🟣At-home Detox and addiction home services

🟣Early intervention. Relapse prevention

🟣Mobile app and biometric rings

🟣Making SUD care more accessible

🟣Co-regulate with accountability and self-empowerment

🟣 Importance of family, Stages of Change Model, and safety.

🟣Why stigma stays around SUD

🟣Recovery should be a celebrated journey into spiritual connection.

Addiction Podcast Guest:

Hannah Jurewicz, PsyD, Chief Clinical Officer

Michael Brunk, Co-Founder and CEO

Pathfinder Recovery

🔗https://www.pathfinder-recovery.com/

🔗Hannah's LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-jurewicz-psyd-82895872

🔗Michael's LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-brunk-bab50346/

Guest location: Connecticut

Addiction Podcast Host:

Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠

Subscribe to get our podcast in your inbox https://addictionrecoveryplace.com/subscribe

Topics discussed in this episode

🟣 How an unexpected conversation started Caitlin's path to recovery

🟣 Being the only Recovery Coach for 100 miles and the desire to know more led to getting a PhD in Human Services Counseling 

🟣 Networking through her role as President of the Idaho affiliate of NAADAC led to her moving to Alaska to work at True North Recovery

🟣 Living room model with walk-in crisis support and mobile crisis team

🟣 MAT, MAUD, MOUD, and autonomy of recovery paths

🟣 Collaborating with police and emergency services to provide wraparound care

🟣 Sober Living: providing a safe place for OP and transition to an independent life

🟣 Fairbanks Reentry Service helping stabilize lives after prison 

🟣 Prison Policy Initiative findings about Alaska's incarceration rate

🟣 How limited resources help Alaskans collaborate 

🟣 Department of Health distributing Overdose Rescue Kits through Project Hope

🟣 NAADAC getting a seat at tables you didn't know existed

🟣 Mentoring in the NAADAC and NBCCF Minority Fellowship Program 

🟣 Stigma, systematic discrimination, and changing what it means to be somebody who uses substances and is in recovery

🟣 Harm reduction as a social justice movement

🟣 A message for those in active addiction, inspired by the Dalai Lama 

Caitlin Hegwood, PhD (She/Her)

LPC, LPC-S, MAC, ACADC, CADC-II, CCTS-I, CYI

Therapist, Elevate Wellness

Chief Clinical Officer, True North Recovery

🔗LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlin-hegwood/

🔗True North Recovery https://tnrak.org/

🔗Elevate Wellness, LLC https://elevate-wellness-llc.com/

🔗Prison Policy Initiative https://www.prisonpolicy.org/

🔗Alaska Department of Health + Project Hope https://health.alaska.gov/en/services/project-hope-get-naloxone/

🔗Light up the Couch Podcast https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmHOA07fwo7kW3_ytEhIzoedC8Jyks4yo

Guest location: Alaska

Addiction Podcast Host:

⁠Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠

Topics discussed in this episode

🟣 Life as a chemist before becoming a therapist

🟣 Psychologists vs counselors: choosing a career path

🟣 Career benefits of being exposed to different therapies

🟣 Dr. Porges and the professional importance of a good network

🟣 Developing professional resources for autism and intimacy behaviors

🟣Private clientele, intimacy & compulsive disorders, and a trauma therapist for a men's recovery ranch

🟣Returning to Work Initiative and the Jobs Corps

🟣Treating dual diagnosis and other forms of addiction, including adrenaline, work, gambling, sex, drama, and money.

🟣Attachment styles at the heart of many wounds

🟣Enmeshment and attachment ruptures

🟣Cruelty of stigma

🟣Helping clients discover true internal peace

Addiction Podcast Guest:

Megan MacKay CSAT, LCPC, LPC, CHMC, 

EMDR Trained Psychotherapist 

Founder of Interstate Healing and Recovery

 📞602-345-1354 

🔗 https://www.innerstatehealingandrecovery.com/

🔗https://bloggingforrecovery.wordpress.com/

🔗LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganmackayaz/

 🔗New Beginning Ranch https://www.newbeginningranch.com/

 🔗Jobs Corps https://trappercreek.jobcorps.gov/

Guest location: Montana

Addiction Podcast Host:

⁠Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠

Topics discussed in this episode

🟣 Changing careers from science educator to SUD professional

🟣 Helping major life transitions with advocacy and connection to resources to navigate complex systems

🟣 Holistic treatment for SUD, Dual diagnosis, or solely mental health issues

🟣Primary therapist and multiple modalities from different therapists

🟣 3 components of treatment with a unique approach to reconnecting people with joy

🟣 Snorkeling, hiking, equine, mindfulness, art, music, and surf therapy

🟣 Benefits of Surf Therapy

🟣 Clinical team, alums who are also staff, and clients join together in activities by Adventure Leaders

🟣 Aftercare planning starts week one

🟣 Helping clients evaluate and select therapists for aftercare

🟣Addressing life distractions

🟣Stigma and the need for education about the chemical and physical experience of addiction

🟣 Harm reduction, reduction, and treating comorbidity

Addiction Podcast Guest:

Kate O'Donnell

Client Wellness Director, Maui Recovery

📞(877) 522-4401

🔗https://mauirecovery.com

🔗LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateaodonnell/

Guest location: Hawaii

Addiction Podcast Host:⁠

Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠

Topics discussed in this episode

🟣 Celebrating long-term sustained recovery

🟣 Helping active users navigate recovery resources

🟣 CCAR Training and becoming a Peer Recovery Coach

🟣 Using Supervision to not carry the burdens of clients

🟣 OHH Opioid Home Health all women team with MAT, CADC, Nurse, and Peer Recovery Coach

🟣 CACD Patient Navigator connecting resources for needs, including housing

🟣 Maintaining boundaries

🟣 Maine's response to the Opioid crisis

🟣 OPC Overdose Prevention Centers and clean needle exchanges

🟣 Stigma and shame with dependence on prescribed medication

🟣 Breaking stigma in treatment with harm reduction instead of kicking people out of programs

Addiction Podcast Guest:

Renee Lewis, MHRT/C Peer Recovery Coach, Assistance Plus

🔗assistanceplus.com

🔗LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/renee-lewis-mhrtc-377168255/

Guest location: Maine

Addiction Podcast Host:

Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠

Topics discussed in this episode🟣Navy Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program NADSAP🟣AOD/CTC Cycle: Wanberg and Milkman🟣Hopping on a plane to Maui & into substance abuse counselor job🟣Chief Drug Court judge encouraged Stan to write his book, "Drug Court Treatment: The Verdict (Criminal Justice and Addictions Treatment Book 1)"🟣Importance of belief-change work in SUD🟣How SUD work mirrors the business sales process 🟣Change work, not paperwork🟣Dwell on the importance of beliefs 🟣Adding the missing piece to continuing education🟣How NAADAC makes it easier to train coast to coast🟣Drug court treatment that gets results🟣Change cognitive stuff before behavior🟣 How client reports can create bias🟣The 13 presuppositions belief activity🟣2 most common belief problems🟣Hawaii, the crossroads of the Pacific 🟣Internal and external stigma🟣 Permission-granting core beliefs🟣Belief change as a method of harm reduction🟣Take people where they want to go.🟣7th stage of changeAddiction Podcast Guest:Stan Dokmanus CCJP, CSAC, CLE, ICCJP, B.A. PsychologyFounder and Trainer, Belief Eye Movement Therapy🔗https://standokmanus.com/blog/🔗LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/stan-dokmanus-07252936/🔗Drug Court Treatment: The Verdict (Criminal Justice and Addictions Treatment Book 1)https://www.amazon.com/Drug-Court-Treatment-Criminal-Addictions-ebook/dp/B0170RK22Q🔗Belief Eye Movement Therapyhttps://www.amazon.com/Belief-Eye-Movement-Therapy-Change-ebook/dp/B0BWPXXS2R🔗Stan has published 5 books all availabe on Amazonhttps://www.amazon.com/stores/Stan-Dokmanus/author/B017RR0D0KGuest location: HawaiiAddiction Podcast Host:⁠Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠

Topics discussed in this episode

🟣Chris Seemer's journey to become a Certified Peer Support Specialist

🟣Sam Doyle's journey: how a love for helping people and learning led her to recovery work

🟣Peer support care that helps get people over the hump of their Detox

🟣 Detox and residential care: providing the most amount of comfort in step one of the recovery journey

🟣 90% success rate of alumni program graduates

🟣50 employees for 24/7 service but maintaining family feel

🟣Hiring compassionate drivers to bring people into treatment

🟣Healthy mix of referral sources

🟣Bringing in outside agencies to inform clients about different types of recovery (NA, AA, DAA, Faces and Voices of Recovery, Celebrate Recovery, SMART Recovery)

🟣Art therapy

🟣How the opioid epidemic in South Carolina is impacting all demographics

🟣South Carolina needs to catch up to the recovery resources in North Carolina

🟣SUD underrepresented in media

🟣Stigma, changing demographics, and the need to educate addiction is a disease, not a choice

🟣Underrepresented demographics as SUD professionals and individuals seeking treatment

🟣Detox, MAT, and Harm Reduction

🟣Pain can have a purpose

🟣Created a lighthearted work environment

🟣Transformative moments, compassionate care, recovery, and the light it brings

Addiction Podcast Guest:

Chris Seemer, Certified Peer Support Specialist,

Sam Doyle, SCAT Director of Operations & Marketing

South Carolina Addiction Treatment

🔗https://scaddictiontreatment.com/

🔗Chris Seemer LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-seemer-cpss-527787277

🔗Sam Doyle LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-doyle/

Guest location: South Carolina

Addiction Podcast Host:

⁠Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠

Topics discussed in this episode🟣 Sobriety and a second career in recovery after working as an educator for 20 years🟣 Feeling terrified starting private practice and trying different niches 🟣 Deciding to focus on intimacy and sex addiction and create the Center for Intimacy🟣 Internal family systems: Exile🟣 When sex becomes problematic 🟣 Power of co-regulation and dysregulating🟣 Secrets, betrayal, function, and different levels of desire🟣 40% of people with SUD have unhealthy relationship with sex🟣 Sexual recovery's role in SUD recovery🟣 Growing, training, and supporting a team🟣 Running 2 parallel staff to avoid dilution of intimacy🟣 Making a practice like a teaching hospital and the importance of supervision🟣 Creating community among therapists🟣 2-week intensive program for sexual addiction or trauma🟣 How codependency gets distorted and why it often comes up later in recovery🟣 Betrayal blindness and isolation of partners 🟣 PTSD, relational trauma, and maladaptive behaviors🟣 Stigma, shame, harm reduction, and sex addictionAddiction Podcast Guest:Gary Katz LCSW, CSAT-S Psychotherapist, Owner of Center for Intimacy Recovery,✉️ [email protected]🔗https://www.intimacyrecovery.com/🔗LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/garykatz-lcsw-csat/🔗Clinical Director, Nancy Tricamo https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-tricamo-7153892/Book mentioned: Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse Reprint Edition Jennifer J. FreydGuest location: VermontAddiction Podcast Host:Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠