Addictions Symposium

Please join us on February 16, 2018, for a unique opportunity to delve into the treatment of addictions. Four clinicians will come together to present their work with clients who deal with a range of addictions.

Christine Spilman, LPC, CSAC will focus on the impact that substance abuse has on families and how substance abuse is often used as a substitute for interpersonal interactions through Attachment theory.  She also will discuss ways to identify enabling behaviors and how to offer support to the individual using as well as to the family.
 

Tara Langston, LPC, CSAC will speak about the importance of assessment and how the process is important not only to obtain information about the client but also to begin to build rapport with the client, using motivational interviewing. She will also talk about Auricular Acupuncture and how it works with decreasing cravings.
 

Nate Koser, PhD, LPC will be speaking about sexual addiction and will present cases from his own clinical practice involving clients who have sought treatment and how he conceptualized these cases from a psychoanalytic perspective and how the treatment unfolded.
 

Richard Wettstone, EdD, LPC, LMFT will address his current treatment of opiate addicts and the protocol for opiate replacement therapy.  He will also address how he evaluates ASAP Treatment referrals and the new process of getting approval from the Virginia Commission on ASAP (VASAP) to be an ASAP Treatment Provider. He will also address addiction treatment and if time allows discuss use of the adult SASSI-3 Scale in Substance Abuse evaluations.

Learning Objectives:

• To learn the importance of assessment to make diagnoses, appropriate treatment plan and incorporating motivational interviewing to help client identify their stage of change.
• To look at the current state of treatment for opiate addiction
• To learn how addiction impacts the family and ways to identify substance use in teenagers.
• Be able to identify sexual addiction in clients and when it is a disorder versus healthy exploration.
• Be able to use various evaluation tools to determine level of abuse or dependence in a client and better identify appropriate treatment strategies.

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Date: February 16, 2018

Time:  9:00am - 12:00pm

Locations: Eastern Mennonite University, Campus Center, Strite Conference Room (CC105)

CEs: 3.0 (NBCC #4488)

Price: $65.00

"EMU MAC is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPtm) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program.Information provided in this workshop will consist of clinical counseling techniques and skills. Workshop content is limited for application by professional clinical counselors (therapists) with appropriate education, certification and qualifications."

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Registration Information

Advanced registration and payment is required.  Please reserve your spot by Monday, February 12, 2018.  To register, please call Amanda at 540-432-4243 or email her by clicking her email link amanda.k.williams@emu.edu.

About The Presenters

Christine Spilman, LPC, CSAC has been practicing counseling since 2006.  She has worked with Intensive In Home services with children and their families.  She has facilitated adult substance abuse treatment groups for 8 years, and continues to work with adults and families related to substance abuse, as well as depression, anxiety, and life stressors.  Christine has been in private practice since 2012 and utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with Attachment when working with clients.

Tara Langston, LPC, CSAC has been practicing since 1992.  She started a private practice in 2002 and has worked with substance abuse clients and their families, facilitating groups and working individually with adolescents and adults.  She works with clients that have substance use disorders, with co-occurring disorders and other mental health and life transition concerns.  She received her LPC and CSAC in 2001 and was trained to provide Auricular Acupuncture for clients in 2002.

Nate Koser, PhD, LPC earned his BS in psychology and MA in counseling from Eastern Mennonite University. He earned a PhD in psychology at Saybrook University in San Francisco, California. Nate is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in continual formation. He is a Psychoanalyst Member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (EPFCL), and also a member of the Lacanian Forum of Washington D.C., The Colorado Psychoanalytic Forum of the Lacanian Field, and the Foro Analítico del Río de la Plata (FARP) – Buenos Aires, Argentina. Nate provides psychoanalysis at Aporia Counseling & Psychotherapy, PLLC in Harrisonburg, VA. Nate’s research interests include: Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, trauma, and the interface between psychoanalysis and the humanities.

Richard Wettstone, EdD, LPC, LMFT is an LPC and Licensed Substance Abuse Provider in Virginia. He has been doing substance abuse counseling and evaluations since 1982, and been an ASAP Treatment Provider since 1985. He was cofounder of the Shenandoah Valley Sex Offender Treatment Program in 1985 and currently treats sexual addictions. Between 1996 and 2004, he founded and ran Adolescents Recovering Together , a program for adolescent drug users and addicts. Between 2003 and 2009, he was an adjunct faculty member teaching the addictions class for the EMU Counseling Program. Most of Dr. Wettstone’s  current work in addictions is conducting evaluations of all types and counseling opiate addicts who are receiving suboxone/bupinorphine replacement therapy.