Addiction: Getting Down to Root Causes and Conditions

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LET’S TALK ABOUT THE REALITIES OF ADDICTION & RECOVERY

Addiction and mental health are deeply connected — but too often, they’re treated as separate conversations. In practice, they show up together every day: clients navigating cravings, anxiety, mood instability, trauma responses, cycles of use and relapse, or simply the challenge of regulating themselves in the midst of everything they’re carrying.

What if the key to your client’s recovery isn’t another intervention — but a deeper understanding of what’s driving the addiction beneath the surface?

Addiction and mental health are deeply intertwined, showing up together in real-world clinical situations — when clients are struggling with cravings, compulsive behaviors, trauma responses, co-occurring disorders, or the daily obstacles that make recovery challenging. To support clients effectively, we move beyond theory and provide practical, grounded frameworks for understanding the factors that drive addiction, including neurobiology, trauma, environmental stressors, and patterns of learned behavior. This approach lets you engage these conversations with confidence, apply insights in meaningful ways, and support clients with care that is holistic, evidence-informed, and attuned to their unique journey toward recovery.

Training Objectives:

Identify and explain the interplay between genetic predisposition, neurobiology, trauma (ACEs), and environmental stressors in the development of addictive disorders.

Utilize the “4 Cs” of addiction (Craving, Compulsion, Control, and Consequence) to conduct holistic clinical assessments across diverse client presentations.

Demonstrate how to adaptively apply interventions from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (AFIT), Applied Positive Psychology (APP), Somatic Experiencing (SE), and Motivational Interviewing (MI) to identify, assess, and address underlying causes of addiction.

Develop comprehensive relapse prevention and safety plans that incorporate “scaffolding” through community resources, interpersonal neurobiology, and family systems.

Resolve ethical challenges unique to addiction treatment, including 42 CFR Part 2 confidentiality standards including recent 2024 updates align Part 2 more closely with HIPAA, allowing a single consent for treatment, payment, and operations (TPO) while increasing penalties for breaches., documentation of co-occurring disorders, and the mitigation of provider bias.

Apply reflective practice and therapist attunement techniques to foster client autonomy and transition from “learned hopelessness” to resilience.

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
LEADING THIS TRAINING

Equipping clinicians to understand addiction, address underlying causes, and foster meaningful recovery with confidence and practical tools.

Kat Hickey, MEd, LCMHC‑C, Adjunct Faculty at Bay Path University, is a clinician and educator specializing in Applied Positive Psychology, trauma, and addiction. She integrates EMDR, meditation, and holistic mind–body practices into an empirically supported, client‑centered approach. Kat teaches with a whole‑system philosophy, emphasizing nervous system awareness and embodied learning. Her trainings are warm, collaborative, and immediately applicable, equipping clinicians with practical skills and a deeper understanding of theory, regulation, and the lived experience of their clients.