Profile Information
Location
Steamboat Springs, CO
Country
United States
Postal Code
80488
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Chief Clinical Officer at a private addiction treatment center. We provide residential and partial hospital programming in trauma integrated way.
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
I work for the Foundry Treatment Center, Steamboat Springs, CO. I also speak nationally at conferences that are geared to improving treatment for addiction. My topics are trauma integrated addiction treatment, families-trauma-and addiction, and compassion fatigue experienced by treatment professionals, advocates, etc.
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
The occurrence of traumatic stress and addiction are clear and it is critical for treatment providers to provide appropriate services that can treat both issues. We are in the process of integrating interventions to assist individuals with addiction, developmental trauma, and PTSD in a way that allows for healing in all areas of participant concern. I am also a family therapist who has studied the secondary trauma of parents who are raising children with significant trauma. This systemic traumatic stress is one of the least studied and least considered aspects of childhood trauma.
If you're part of a community-based PACEs initiative, which one?
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