This workshop will provide participants with an overview of the medications that behavioral health practitioners are likely to encounter to addiction issues. Medications used to treat Opioid Use Disorders, Alcohol Use Disorders, and Methamphetamine Use Disorders will be specifically addressed. Guest speakers will be invited. (6 CEUs)

Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) of Addiction
Times:
Day(s):
9:00 am
Jun 24
4:00 pm
- Category: Bernalillo County BHI
Workshop Instructor

Emily Everhart MA LMHC
Emily Everhart, MA, LMHC graduated from Southwestern College in Santa Fe. Emily is trained in Seeking Safety, Motivational Interviewing, CRAFT, DBT, and EMDR. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (M.I.N.T.) and is a Certified Grief Informed Professional (C.G.P.). She has worked in residential and outpatient facilities – primarily with clients with extensive trauma histories. Emily is particularly passionate about helping clients to cultivate successful relationships in their daily lives, a healthy relationship to grief, and holistic recovery from addictions (process and substance.) She has extensive experience working with clients that utilize medication-assisted therapies and is grounded in a harm reduction approach to substance abuse. In addition to working individually with clients, she also enjoys clinical and psychoeducation group work. She brings a patient sense of humor to her work with clients and sees therapy as a highly collaborative process.