The Pines and Cady Hill Recovery Center, a division of Community Counseling Services, in partnership with Pine Grove Treatment Center of Hattiesburg, will offer a training session titled “Successful Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Effective Therapeutic Interventions” from 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Friday. Isaac L. Boose, director of Pine Grove’s Next Step Program, and Vanessa Cox, clinical director of Next Step, will present the session for counseling professionals in the Golden Triangle area. The event will be held at 915 Main St. in Columbus, just east of Community Counseling Services Lowndes County Office on Main Street.
Registration begins at 9 a.m. Space is limited; preregistration at pinegrovetreatment.com/events is recommended.
“The Pines and Cady Hill Recovery Center is honored to be a Pine Grove education and speaker series partner,” said Martha Allen of The Pines and Cady Hill Recovery Center. “Pine Grove Treatment Center is an internationally known treatment center that has been doing good work for many years.”
The presentation will review aspects of the treatment process that contribute to successful treatment completion, stressors related to entering and participating in the treatment process, and the importance of effective treatment interventions and post treatment resources.
Presenters
Boose is a licensed professional counselor, a licensed marriage and family therapist and a certified advanced alcohol and drug counselor. He has been a part of the Next Step staff since December 2004. Prior to Next Step, he worked as a clinical therapist at a residential chemical dependency treatment facility and as an office manager for Communicare in Oxford at their Panola County office.
Cox is a licensed certified social worker and supervisor, and a certified sex addiction therapist. She is currently working on her EMDR certification. She is the clinical director of Pine Grove Next Step and has been a part of the Pine Grove team since October 2005. She worked as a clinical therapist at Next Step until 2008 and as clinical director of Pine Grove Women Center before returning to Next Step in 2014. Before joining the Pine Grove team, she worked in the fields of addiction and mental health.
The Pines and Cady Hill Recovery Center, founded in 1976, is an alcohol and drug treatment center in downtown Columbus.
For more information or to register, visit pinegrovetreatment.com/events or call Allen at 662-295-0873.
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