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Letters From A Sex Addict: My Life Exposed with Wendy Conquest and Dan Drake

Wendy Conquest is a psychotherapist, Director of SACC, a sex and addiction treatment center in Boulder Colorado and author of Letters To A Sex Addict: The Journey Through Grief and Betrayal. Ms. Conquest’s passion is to understand and create paradigms for change. She has developed programs dealing with drug, alcohol, sex addiction, and treating partners of sex addicts with hospitals, agencies and treatment centers over the last 17 years always using cutting edge research.  Wendy has also been successful incorporating Alma, her therapy dog, with clients in individual, couples, and group settings.  Her newest book, Letters From A Sex Addict; Seeing Inside My Mind, written with co-author, Dan Drake, will be available in 2017.

www.wendyconquest.com

Dan Drake is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist Supervisor, and a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist. He specializes in treating sex addicts, their partners and families. He is in private practice in Studio City, CA and is EMDR trained.

In addition to treating sex addiction, he has years of experience working with adults, adolescents, couples, and groups on issues such as depression, anxiety, relational difficulty, and spirituality.

www.dandrakemft.com

The Collective Evolution With Joe Martino

  Joe Martino Has A Positive Vision Of Humanity’s future Eight years ago, Joe Martino created Collective Evolution – an incredible organization that’s helping millions to embrace positive change. What is Collective Evolution All About? We (CE) believe in creating change by raising consciousness and thinking outside the box. We aim to challenge the current status quo by shaking up how we currently think about the world. We encourage and inspire each other to take action with the goal of bringing to life a bright future for us all. Positive and heartfelt journalism is a big part of what we do. Living sustainably, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, creating a spiritual relationship with oneself and shaping a better world together are all things we encourage. We value balance in our world, which means examining all aspects of our lives. We report on news, health, science, technology and an accessible, non-new-agey or religious brand of spirituality. A grassroots organization created in 2009, CE is now one of the world’s most popular alternative media, production, and community outlets that gives readers an opportunity to reshape their everyday way of thinking. CE’s content ranges from full-length articles, to videos, to live events, all of which share one common goal: to raise awareness about how our world functions, and to encourage conscious change that moves beyond it. Who is Collective Evolution? All CE content is brought into conscious existence by an awesome, (but not too awesome) dynamic (but not too dynamic) community of writers, filmmakers, editors, speakers and other phenomenally creative minds… but not too phenomenal.

Get Your Zen On: Electronic Health Record Integrity In Addiction Treatment

Two of the founders of ZenCharts.com join host Kristin Walker to discuss why electronic health records are being put to the test in the addiction treatment side of behavioral health. Features like customer relationship management (CRM) have to be incorporated in order to handle the onslaught of patients needing help from substance abuse treatment centers. 

Find out who is behind where you store something as important as protected health information.

Thank you to Rick Glaser and Sean Callahan for joining and being the first sponsor of Mental Health News Radio.

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Journey To The Heart With Kerrie O’Connor

Psychic Medium & Longtime Outer Limits of Inner Truth Virtue Kerrie O’Connor reveals where the world is heading and how to evolve your spirit Kerrie O’Connor is a certified Reiki Master, a teacher of the EMF Balancing Technique®, a student of Incan Shamanism, and a medium of the Doreen Virtue School. Kerrie has maintained a powerfully educational and lifelong interaction with spirit. Kerrie’s dedication to this partnership continues to expand and refine her astounding ability to energetically “read” a person’s life stories to an extraordinary degree. The basis of her work is found in the LightStream™ material, of which Intuitive LightStream Reading™ is the cornerstone and showcase of Kerrie’s clairvoyant mastery. Her capacity to literally observe the inner, ongoing processes we all go through makes her uniquely qualified to offer the personal, practical guidance that will truly empower any seeking individual or group. Kerrie O’Connor, internationally known psychic/medium does it all. Apart from other readers, Kerrie has the ability to communicate with those that have crossed over to reading the energy fields of the living. Her reading style is holistic in that she can bring up past lives to doing a modern day soul retrieval. By reading a clients unique energy patterns in person or over the phone, she can help realign the blocked energy to healthier patterns which enables the individual to “hold” a higher vibration which allows us to live a more fulfilled life.

Mental Health and Murder: Massachusetts In The Spotlight

Mike Rezendes is a member of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team and shared a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for revealing the cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. In more than two decades with the Globe, he has investigated a wide array of additional subjects, including the September 11 attacks, health care costs, and prison suicides. While working with the Spotlight Team, Mike was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice, once in 2007 for an investigation of the debt collection industry, and again in 2017 for an exposé of the mental health care system in Massachusetts.

On this show our host, Kristin Sunanta Walker, and Mike discuss the mental health system failure in Massachusetts.

www.bostonglobe.com

For more information please visit The Boston Globe Spotlight team.

Round 2 With PR Legend & Author Michael Levine

The Outer limits of Inner Truth Goes Round 2 With PR Legend & Author Michael Levine Called by USA Today, “one of Hollywood’s brightest and most respected executives,” Michael Levine has been responsible for the renowned public relations campaigns for, among others, Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Charlton Heston, Linda Evans, Jon Voight, Suzanne Somers, John Larroquette and Sidney Sheldon. His clients have run from movie stars Michael J. Fox, Demi Moore and Mickey Rooney; to sports heroes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Nancy Kerrigan; to television personalities Hal Linden and Mary Hart; to music figures Fleetwood Mac, Janet Jackson, Tom Petty and David Bowie; to comics such as Sandra Bernhard and George Carlin; to producer Robert Evans. Corporate entertainment clients have included: The Improvisation Comedy Clubs (nationally), The Comedy Store, Sandollar Productions, The Hollywood Athletic Club, among many others. Regarded by the national media as one of the country’s most prominent media expert, Levine has appeared on virtually every major national TV and radio show as a contributing media expert. Frequent appearances on TV include The Today Show, Nightline, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox News, ABC News, MSNBC, PBS, etc. Additionally, Levine appears regularly on radio both nationally and locally. His quotes frequent many major print media ranging from Time Magazine to The Los Angeles Times from Newsweek to The New York Times from U.S.A Today to People Magazine, etc. Levine is the creator of the LBN E-Lert (Levine Breaking News), one of the world’s premier online newsletters, feeding the latest insider breaking news to approximately 474,000 “influencers” in all 50 of the United States and 26 foreign countries including China, India, Japan, Australia, Russia, England, Israel, Germany, South Africa, Mexico, Canada and Korea. Michael Levine is the author of 19 books, with his most recent titled, “Broken Windows, Broken Business” (Warner Books) www.BrokenWindows.com. His previous book “Guerrilla P.R.” (Harper Collins) is the most widely used introduction to P.R. book in the world, and his books have been translated into six languages. Cable News Network (CNN) said of Levine, “He’s as focused as a bullet in flight.” The late legendary comedian Steve Allen introduced Michael Levine as the “Michael Jordan of Entertainment P.R.”

Mental Illness and Alcoholism with Author Jodee Prouse

Jodee Prouse is an outspoken advocate to help eliminate the shame and stigma surrounding Addiction and Mental Illness from a family perspective. She is the author of the just released, powerful memoir, The Sun is Gone: A Sister Lost in Secrets, Shame, and Addiction, and How I Broke Free which instantly went to #1 in her 3 categories. (Adult Children of Alcoholics, Dysfunctional Families, and Alcoholism).

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Core Belief Restructuring™: Jean Francois Benoist on Mental Health News Radio

Jean-Francois Benoist is the creator of Core Belief Restructuring™ (CBR) and the founder of The Exclusive Addiction Treatment Center in Hawaii. He is a certified professional counselor trained at The Option Institute International Learning and Training Center. He began his studies in human development and empowerment in 1983 with Robert Hargrove and Relationships, Inc., and has been deeply involved in mentoring others and training leaders for over twenty years. Jean-Francois is a worldwide leader in the men’s empowerment non-profit ManKind Project, which focuses on shame-release and support systems for healing.
Author of The Exclusive Guide to Becoming Deeply Happy, Jean-Francois has a depth of experience in helping individuals, couples and families address and heal issues involving addictions, physical violence, sexual abuse, relationship concerns, bereavement, critical health challenges, eating disorders, conflict resolution, and depression. He is versed in individual therapy as well as group counseling. The direct correlation between deeply-held beliefs and painful addictions is Jean-Francois’ highly-refined specialty. He is experienced and rigorously trained in a Socratic methodology and deep listening, enabling him to impart powerful life-changing skills that create immediate results.

www.JFBenoist.com
www.TheExclusiveHawaii.com

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Addiction Counselor Certification Board: An Interview with Carmen Donoto

Carmen Donato, BA, CATC III has worked with CAADE since 2014. She is currently the Outreach Coordinator for CAADE and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts in Human Services, with a concentration in Mental Health Recovery. She also has a Certificate of Completion in Alcohol & Drug Studies from Long Beach City College, one of CAADE’s accredited programs. She is credentialed as a Certified Addictions Treatment Counselor and Certified Prevention Specialist under CAADE’s organization. She is currently at Cal State University, Dominguez Hills, earning her Master’s Degree in Social Work and plans on also earning a Doctorate Degree in Forensics Psychology once completing her MA and after becoming an LCSW. Carmen loves her ministry, hanging with friends, spending time with family, different types of music, and learning new cultures. She wishes to also teach in the field of mental health, substance abuse, and addiction studies. Carmen is currently an Integrated Behavioral Health Clinician at St. John’s. Well Child and Family Center providing direct services to Spanish speaking, under-deserved low SES, Co-Occurring Dx, LGBTQIA+, and/or Dual Dx individuals, while using a holistic approach and working with a Muti-Disciplinary team.

www.caade.org
CAADE was a part of The Evolution of Addiction Treatment conference held in Los Angeles  California in 2017.

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California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals: Kristina Padilla

Kristina Padilla is a leader with the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP), where she serves as the Director of Education. She also is Director of Business Development wherein she travels throughout California and the nation bringing addiction focused businesses together to promote the profession, increase access to services and improve the quality of AOD service provision through education, business development, and investment in quality programming.  Formerly she served as the Education Director for the California Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (CAADAC). Ms. Padilla led California’s innovative criminal justice program serving as the Offender Mentor Certification Program Director for three years where she managed 12 in-prison programs for training counselors. She worked closely with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in California prisons for the duration of the contract bringing innovation and growth to the state’s in custody treatment programming.  Ms. Padilla has a Bachelor’s of Science in Criminal Justice Administration and a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology. Ms. Padilla is a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern, a Licensed Advanced Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor (LAADC), and an International Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor (ICAADC). She is also a Certified Gang Specialist of the National Gang Crime Research Center (NGCRC) and is on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Addiction Professionals and their Allies (NALGAP).

www.ccapp.us

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