Stephen Sideroff, Ph.D.

Physical and emotional holding patterns, as well as bad habits can result from emotional pain and defenses. Along with stress they cause muscle tension, nervous system and emotional reactivity. This impacts physical symptoms and interferes with healing and your mind and body’s optimal functioning.

Pain and other symptoms can also be maintained unconsciously as a distraction from emotional issues. By addressing these underlying issues and coping better with stress, your body is able to let go more readily. This improves blood flow, effects biochemical balance, improves physical health. It also enhances performance.

This workshop will help you recognize and release emotional and physical holding patterns and learn more appropriate responses to stress. Thus your body will be more resilient, and heal better. Discussion, along with experiential work will facilitate self-awareness, emotional release and body self-regulation. This workshop addresses:

• The connection between emotions, stress and physical symptoms including pain
• Identifying and resolving emotional holding patterns and unfinished business
• Introduction to biofeedback and relaxation techniques
• Coping with stress and correcting the chronic imbalance of your nervous system
• Redesigning your body’s “Fight or Flight” response to enhance resilience
• Dealing with anger and depression
• Destructive patterns such as perfectionism, worry, and addictions
• New and more effective ways of thinking and controlling thoughts
• Creating your personal program and a clearly defined path for healing and optimal functioning

Stephen Sideroff is an internationally recognized expert in behavioral medicine, optimal performance, resilience and alternative approaches to stress and mental health. He is the Clinical Director of Moonview Treatment and Optimal Performance Center, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA’s School of Medicine. Dr. Sideroff has presented more than 600 seminars and professional training programs worldwide. He has helped to establish innovative treatment approaches in psychosomatic medicine, optimal functioning and attention deficit disorder in China, Europe, and the U.S., and conducted cutting edge research in brain and behavior at UC Irvine, McGill University and UCLA. He was founder and former Director of Stress Strategies Center at UCLA/Santa Monica hospital. You can find more information at www.ThirdWind.org

For more information call Dr. Sideroff: 310-828-1113; or to enroll in this workshop contact Esalen Institute: 831-667-3000. CEUs provided.

When eight men gathered every night in a small house in Indio, California, for AA meetings in 1963, it was unlikely they conceived that their dedication to recovery would be the launching point for a major movement in drug and alcohol treatment. It is from these humble beginnings that ABC Recovery Center grew into what now comprises an eight-acre campus with 24 buildings (including the original clubhouse) for sub-acute detox treatment; separate men’s and women’s residences; a Transitional Living Village; The McGovern House, a six-room facility with private playgrounds for mothers and their small children; a Sober Living Village; an outpatient center; an administrative building; and a community center.

Its reputation has grown as impressively as its facilities; ABC Recovery is now one of the premier rehabilitation and recovery centers in the Coachella Valley, its staff specifically selected for their experience and abilities. David Likens, CEO of ABC Recovery, has a lot to do with this.

Among his first tasks after taking the position four years ago was to raise the bar on the caliber of the staff; what he refers to as “client care through highly educated staff members”. He also focused on enhancing and developing new programs and “transitioned from a traditional, community-based social model to an organization that provides a complete continuum of care”. The most recent additions to the stable of services at ABC are the Center for Spiritualism and Recovery Bridges, both founded by Likens.

To accomplish so much is such a short period of time speaks to Likens’ dedication and passion for his work in addictions. His work resume prior to ABC reads like a modern-day renaissance man: administration; program director; marketing; development/fundraising; program development; operations; college professor (at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California, where he still teaches classes); and lawyer.

Likens is currently a member of the California State Bar and has worked in criminal defense, as well as with substance abuse organizations; he also provides legal advice on a consulting basis. “Four years ago, practicing as a lawyer with public defenders, was the first time in 12 years I was not working in the addictions treatment field,” Likens recalls. “And when the opportunity came for the position at ABC, I saw it as a chance to take my work in the field of addiction to the next level and provide my expertise to an organization I respect.”

As the oldest treatment center in Riverside County (40 years), ABC has a strong reputation for social model values and stability. Under Likens’ direction, the increased services have made a tremendously positive impact on the community. “Our fee for services have more than tripled,” Likens states, “which shows a dramatic increase in community interest. In a time when public funds are dwindling and many programs similar to ours have seen huge financial issues, or been forced to close their doors, we’ve seen a major increase in fee for service and intakes and community involvement. I attribute it to the enhanced value of our services.”

This is especially impressive given the sheer volume of direct competitors in its immediate neighborhood. “We are in the Coachella Valley,” Likens states,” land of huge resources in substance abuse, but we provide high-quality services at an affordable rate that people can access. I believe that’s what sets us apart.”

One program that really drew Likens to ABC is its peri-natal program, which provides residential treatment until the baby is born, and then until baby is one. “ABC never turns women away for their inability to pay, if they meet our criteria”, Likens states. In the 20 years of ABC’s peri-natal program, almost 400 pregnant women have come through.

Though Likens has accomplished more in four years than many others could do in 10, he is moving full steam ahead with goals to renovate a new building, recently purchased on the corner of ABC’s property, and open it as a sub-acute detox facility, with full group counseling, as well as for residential treatment services.

To learn more about ABC Recovery Center and David Likens, visit www.abcrecoverycenter.org, or call 760.342.6616.

Is your teen playing doctor? Surely, this is an appropriate question for parents of adolescents who are concerned about teens entering a sexually intimate relationship before he or she is ready.

Treatment Consultants has extensive experience with insurance benefit verifications, pre-authorizations, utilization review and billing. Our highly trained staff understands how to work with both the treatment team and the insurance company from both customer service and clinical perspectives.

Our innovative approach has resulted in authorizations that are twice the national average.

We provide this service for Mental Health Facilities, Chemical Dependency Treatment Centers and Eating Disorder programs that offer inpatient, residential and out-patient
services.

We offer a full range of services at reasonable rates. If you are interested in increasing admissions and creating a successful payer mix, please give us a call for more information or check out the Insurance Services page on our website.

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Amy Lashway, MA, LPC, NCC – amy@treatmentcoordination.net

888-301-9425 or 505-404-6645

Having suffered the tragic loss of his son Chris to drug addiction, Craig Gordon, Director of Business Development for the company, learned firsthand the importance of communication between the treatment provider, referring clinician and family.

Determined that something good should come from his family’s tragedy, Gordon persuaded his business partner, lifelong friend and Connect 4 Healthcare, LLC founder Neil Moore to bring the company’s care-provider communication solution to the Behavioral Health Industry.

The introduction of the service into Behavioral Health follows the companies’ previous accomplishments in long-term care to give treatment providers a secure, structured and easy-to-use solution that allows them to deliver regular, proactive, patient-specific updates and important messages to authorized recipients no matter where they might be in the world.

On the introduction of the service to addiction treatment providers, Gordon said: “It’s all about communication. Speaking as a parent who lived through the process and lost a child to substance abuse, good outcomes require a team approach that includes the referring professional and the family. Regular, proactive communication from the treatment provider throughout the process is critical. It better prepares the referring professional for post-treatment management while it comforts, informs and empowers the family.”

Neil Moore, Founder and CEO of Connect 4 Healthcare, LLC said: “The feedback we’ve already received from behavioral health professionals combined with our other health care experience clearly indicate three things: First, the providers that adopt and use the service will get more referrals. Second, referral sources and families will benefit by being kept more informed and being better prepared for post-treatment management and support and third and most importantly, patients will benefit by having a more informed and better prepared support team when they leave treatment.”

Connect 4 Healthcare’s communication solution is a customizable web service purpose-built to enable regular, simple, proactive communication of status updates and messages to clinicians and families using the Internet, email and SMS text messaging. The Connect service is currently in use by Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing and Home Care providers throughout the United States and Canada.

Contact:

Connect 4 Healthcare, LLC
Connect for Healthcare for Behavioral Health
Phoenix, Arizona
480-251-8124
craig@connect4healthcare.com
connect4healthcare.com

Journey Malibu is a drug and alcohol treatment center, tailored specifically for Professionals in the most demanding, high-stress jobs, such as Physicians, Attorneys, Judges, and Airline Pilots. These are career professionals whose difficulties with drug and alcohol abuse often require them to answer to state and federal licensing boards, and who subsequently may be placed in monitoring or assistance programs. Visit us at Journey Malibu’s Drug Rehab Professional Health Recovery Program