Kansas Cafferty, MA, MCA, CSC, MFTI, LAADC

Kansas Cafferty, LAADC, MCA, MFTI is the Director of Clinical Services at Orange County Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine (OCPAM) in Newport Beach, CA (www.ocpam.com) and is the Program Director for True North Recovery Services in Carlsbad, CA (www.sandiegoaddictions.com). He has been in the field of addiction treatment for close to 15 years. He has been published in multiple industry publications and makes stringent efforts to be at the cutting edge of addiction treatment. He has training in a range of therapy techniques, such as EMDR, CBT, Psychodrama and Motivational Interviewing. He works primarily with addiction, eating disorders and post-traumatic stress, but is adept in all areas of general psychotherapy practice.

OCPAM

Orange County Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine offers a full range of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic services including Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; EMDR; Psychological Testing; Medication Assisted Treatment using Suboxone; and medication management. OCPAM is headed by Valeh Karimkhani, D.O. For more information, visit www.ocpam.com.

TRUE NORTH RECOVERY SERVICES

TNRS provides outpatient treatment for addiction and co-occurring disorders in the North San Diego County area. It is the perfect step-down program for those leaving residential treatment programs and emphasizes relapse-prevention, warning-sign exploration, skills and management. For more information on TNRS please visit www.sandiegoaddictions.com.

Loving Your Clients

Written By: Kansas Cafferty, MA, MCA, CSC, MFTI, LAADC Date: January 8th, 2012. Topic: Heal the Healer.

By Kansas Cafferty, MA, MCA, CSC, MFTI I have been in the field of addiction treatment for close to 15 years. During this time, we as a field have changed quite a bit, as have many of our methods. I am among those in our field who went through treatment the “old-fashioned” way. I attended [...]

Treating Co-Occurring Eating Disorders and Drug Addiction

Written By: Kansas Cafferty, MA, MCA, CSC, MFTI, LAADC Date: June 15th, 2011. Topic: Eating Disorders.

With increasing prevalence, addiction treatment programs are finding themselves approaching a new challenge in their milieus. It is yet unclear whether eating disorders are occurring at higher rates of frequency or if we are just getting better at identifying and assessing for them (Holderness, et al., 1994). Regardless of the answer to this question, those [...]