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Animal-Assisted Therapy: What’s all the Bark About?

 

Our therapy dogs, Myles and Buddy, were very busy the month of November. They were asked to take part in a course given by NCTide on the importance of using animals during behavioral health therapy. Led by Jill Queen, the president of NCTide, Kristin Walker, therapy dog handler, and Barbara Love, mental health counselor.  Kristin also presented 2 additional sessions on what is trending next in behavioral health technology.

nctideWe decided to make this course experiential. We had about thirty participants join and had them sit in a large circle. Myles and Buddy sat in the middle of the circle with Barbara Love and Kristin Walker. Thankfully someone remembered to bring a lint roller! All we saw were a sea of black pant legs begging to be covered in hair.  

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Recovery and Trauma Expert Dr. Arthur Trotzky on Mental Health News Radio

Dr. Arthur Trotzky is an internationally known treatment specialist with many years of professional work in varied therapeutic settings. From 2005-2011, He was case manager in the Recovering Professionals Program at Ridgeview Institute in Smyrna, Georgia. Prior to his work at Ridgeview, he was a senior staff therapist for the Kibbutz Child and Family Clinic in Israel for 27 years and Clinical Director of Israel’s first twelve-step rehabilitation centers. He served in the IDF Medical Corps in a mobile trauma unit treating combat reactions and victims of terrorism.

Arthur discusses his passion for the field, his high praise for Safety Net Recovery, and his upcoming presentation at this years National Conference on Addiction Disorders in Denver Colorado.

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