Tag: Sober living

The Wolf is My Therapist w/Ozzie Cabral and Mary Ann McCain

Animal Assisted Therapy has become very popular for youth therapy and treatment programs…but Wolves? That’s WILD!

Osvaldo “Ozzie” Cabra and Mary Ann McCain speak with Aaron about their ground breaking program speak with Aaron Huey of Firemountain Residential Treatment Center.

Song of the Wolf Healing Center was founded by Mary Ann McCain and Ozzie Cabral. Both have an extensive work history in the mental health and addictions field with various treatment modalites and populations.

They are also animal lovers and have worked with wolfdogs. After seeing many wolfdogs needing placement they decided to open up their own rescue and do their part in giving abandoned, neglected or unwanted wolfdogs a safe and loving place to live.

https://www.songofthewolf.org

Reducing criminogenic risk factors : John Byrne Prison Fellowship

John Byrne is the Director of Curriculum Development and Implementation for Prison Fellowship Ministries. He has 25 years of experience working in the area of in-prison programming and prison reentry. For 14 years, he was the Director of Prison Fellowship’s InnerChange Freedom Initiative programs in Kansas and Minnesota. He is a graduate of Fuller Seminary and is currently completing his doctoral work at Denver Seminary in the area of developing and measuring Christian prison programming and the potential impact of faith-based programming on recidivism and antisocial thinking and behavior.

Enjoy the show!

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The Whole Family Needs Help!

“Fix my kid.” is a set up for failure. The kid is not broken, the system is broken and parents need support to rebuild the system. Join Kevin Petersen and Aaron Huey of Firemountain Residential Treatment Programs as they discuss what “fix my kid” actually is about.

Kevin Petersen, MA, LMFT was born and raised in Palo Alto, CA. Kevin graduated from Palo Alto High School and enrolled at The University of Southern California in 1982. After living in the south of Spain and working on a farm as a tractor driver in 1983, he came back to USC and graduated in 1994 with a degree in Social Sciences and moved to Denver, CO in 1995. Kevin had a successful career in sales and marketing and then in 2008 he enrolled in the Masters of Marriage and Family Therapy program at Regis University and was part of the first class that graduated from that program in 2011. He then spent three and a half years working at Arapahoe Douglas Mental Health Network as an in home therapist, case manager, crisis evaluator and outpatient therapist for Child and Family Services, he also worked part time for The Bridge House, ADMHN’s Acute Treatment Unit, as a Mental Health Technician and Counselor. Kevin opened his private practice, Petersen Family Counseling, in 2014 and specializes in working with families and individuals struggling with addictions, codependency, and parenting.

https://petersenfamilycounseling.com/

Helping the Fatherless find hope: Leo Bryant MBA, LPC

Leo Bryant’s inspiration and motivation to do what he does comes from the little town he was raised in in Southwest Florida by the name of Immokalee. With a population of less than 5,000 people and heavily populated by immigrant migrant workers he witnessed and encountered a unique blend of cultures and work ethics. In addition, being raised by a hard working single mother and grandmother, it became evident to Leo at an early age that nobody just gives you anything in life. He witnessed his mother work two and three shifts daily for years, as well as be mistreated by friends, family, and the church community, in addition to his grandmother working just as hard for years to help make ends meet. As Leo matured being the oldest of 8 children, he was naturally forced to grow up at an early age and do whatever it took to assist his parents in feeding their family and learned what it meant to lead by example in school, in life, and on the athletic fields.

…Present day Leo works feverishly to establish a counseling practice that works to serve as a light in the darkness for individuals regardless of their race, gender, socio-economic status, and culture that will teach and guide individuals to overcoming diagnosed and un-diagnosed mental health challenges as well as getting past rough spots through their personal and professional lives.

Speaking as a father of two beautiful sons, co-parent & partner to a remarkable woman, and son and brother to an awesome family Leo challenges you to step outside your box and embrace change welcome knowledge, love, and wisdom into your life.

LeoBryant MBA, LPC

http://www.bryantcounselingservicesllc.com/

http://fatherlessingeorgia.org/

Love & Logic and REALLY Risky Teens

Dr. Charles Fay and Aaron Huey review the essentials of Love and Logic and how it can provide a clear path of boundaries, consequences, and responsibility for ANY child. Dr. Fay is a parent, internationally recognized author, consultant and highly skilled public speaker. Millions of educators, mental health professionals, and parents world-wide have benefited from his practical and down-to-earth solutions to the most common and frustrating behaviors displayed by youth of all ages. These solutions come directly from years of research and clinical experience serving severely disturbed youth and their families in psychiatric hospitals, public and private schools, and homes. His interest in education and psychology were peaked as a child from years of exposure to some of our nation’s most dynamic experts in these fields. This early exposure came as a result of participation in training events with his father, Jim Fay. Jim is one of the nation’s leading experts on child discipline and has over fifty years of experience in public education. The internationally recognized Love and Logic approach was literally developed around Charles Fay as he grew. Now he jokes, “I think that’s why I became a psychologist…just to figure out what they were doing to me as a kid. But…let me be clear…I absolutely adore my mom and dad as a result.”

Dr. Fay currently works full time as an author, consultant, public speaker and CEO of the Love and Logic Institute. Because of his high-powered sense of humor and story-telling skills, audiences experience the most memorable and life changing form of learning: learning that’s mentally connected to joy and real-life examples.

www.loveandlogic.com

Running Away: Coaching Calls with Parents

Aaron Huey of Fire Mountain Residential Treatment Center has another discussion with parents about kids and running away. Teens are known for risky behavior and getting into trouble. Some of this is normal rebellion and testing limits and boundaries. Sometimes, however, the limit-testing and boundary-pushing can go too far, and kids find themselves in situations and lifestyles that aren’t what they intended. All of a sudden, they are facing consequences at school, with the law, and at home. Some end up running away, …Read More

The Truth About Relapse

Join as host Aaron Huey of Firemountain Residential Treatment Center gives a quick take on the realities of relapse in both children & adults. What is the reality of relapsing & what do you do when it occurs.

Relapse is a part of recovery. The old dragon will show up in some form or another after your treatment. The goal is to see it! Read More

www.firemountainprograms.com

Interventions, Interruptions and Disrupting the Addict’s Environment

Your teen is in need of an intervention…but how do you find the right one? Do you even need one? Is it like the interventions on TV? Once a teens says yes, how do you get them to the facility? Join Intervention Specialist Rob Lohman for a discussion with host Aaron Huey about the process of interventions.

Rob Lohman is an Addiction Interventionist and Recovery Coach. He is also the Founder of Lifted From The Rut providing Addiction Services to families across the country. Lifted From the Rut arose from a culmination of his life experiences, successes, failures, redirected dreams and a resurrection of hope for a better life.

www.liftedfromtherut.com

Natural Consequences: Coaching Calls with Parents

Join host Aaron Huey on a live recording with parents discussing contracts and consequences! Helping teens & parents gain true insight & understanding of natural consequences to behaviors of teens while giving them the plans to take action and be their child’s best ally.

If your boundaries are not firm, they are suggestions. As adults, when we set boundaries, we are supposed to mean it. If not we should not have set the boundary. Adults set loving boundaries in loving ways. Another important Love And Logic concept is to delay the consequences. Wait until the heat of the moment is over. https://youtu.be/65ajObC27H8…Read More