Welcome by Recovery Happens Clinical Director
Dr. Angela Marie Chanter
Tuesday, Nov 14th
8:00 am - 2:30 pm
Granite Bay Golf Club
9600 Golf Club Drive, Granite Bay
Please RSVP by Friday, Nov 10th
to info@recoveryhappens.com
$50.00 Registration Paid On-site
Lunch Provided
Limited to the first 50 RSVPs
AGENDA
8:00 am - 8:30 am: Registration, Networking, Welcome by Dr. Angela Chanter
8:30 am - 11:30 am: Amy Rose, CADAC II
11:30am - 12:00pm: Lunch Provided, Networking
12:00pm - 2:00pm: Melissa Herrmann, MA
2:00pm - 2:30pm: Amy Rose, CADAC II
2:30pm: Closing
Amy Rose, CADC II
Recovery Happens Program Director
This session will look at the neurobiology of addiction, and the dramatic effects addiction has on the brain and body. We will also learn the stages of addiction and how to break down denial. Additionally, we will observe how early attachment directly affects addiction and how to recover from addiction by learning “earned secure attachment” in relationships.
In today’s world being “present” is a lost art. The busyness of life often has our mind focused on the future, or in the case of trauma, it can be literally stuck in the past. The tools of mindfulness and meditation provide practical ways for an individual to acknowledge their senses and experience “in the present”, empowering one to gain control of their thoughts and feelings.
At the conclusion, the participant will be able to:
- Discuss the neurobiology of addiction
- Identify the stages of addiction
- Explain the process of breaking denial
- Identify the role of early attachment in addiction
- Explain how “earned secure attachment” can be achieved
- Identify the link between earned secure attachment and addiction recovery
- Discuss how mindfulness and meditation can focus thoughts and feelings, aiding recovery
- Gain practical tools in mindfulness exercises
Amy Rose has been in the field of chemical dependency for the past 13 years. She graduated from American River College with a CADC II certification, the highest standard in the field of addiction. She is currently attending Sacramento State to obtain her MFT license.
Amy is passionate about helping individuals remove shame, learn to live in authenticity and vulnerability, and aiding entire family systems into health and wholeness. She considers it a privilege to walk others through their struggles with chemical dependency.
Amy has experience both in outpatient and intensive outpatient levels of care. She is active in the 12- step community and has been sober since 2002. Amy specializes in individual counseling, family counseling, facilitating parent support groups, and gender specific recovery groups revolving around wellness from chemical dependency and co-dependency. She also focuses on educating individuals and families on self-care tools, healthy boundaries, building self-esteem, and obtaining long-term healing.
Melissa Herrmann, MA
Recovery Happens Executive Team Member
This session describes the brain’s process of filing trauma and how it is stored in the psyche, brain and body. The long-term effects of trauma make a victim feel unsafe in their own bodies, often times leading to dysfunctional ways of “escaping.” We will look at neurobiological research to explore how trauma appears on the brain, and the connected emotional and psychological responses. Various case studies will be examined as well as several forms of effective interventions and treatment modalities.
Both victims of trauma and those struggling with addiction have the propensity to control relationships through triangulation – assigning the role of victim, perpetrator, and rescuer to those in their life. This simplistic compartmentalization of relationships can lead to co-dependency, frustration, and early termination of treatment. This session will help professionals identify triangulation and provide them the understanding and language to stay outside of the “triangle” and to relate in a new, empowering role.
At the conclusion, the participant will be able to:
- Explain how trauma is stored in the brain
- Discuss how trauma effects the body
- Identify “triangulation” and the roles attached
- Explain the 3 new roles of the empowerment model
Melissa Herrmann, Founder of Maliza Consulting and Co-Founder of M3 Transformations, has spent the past 16-years focused on working directly with children-at-risk and vulnerable women across the globe. Her efforts have entailed establishing and directing numerous children’s homes and residential facilities, developing community based programs, training thousands of professionals and organizations around the world, and providing lay trauma counseling and psycho-education. Her program models have been recognized by multiple governments, which led her to assist the government of Rwanda in nationalized orphan-care policy reform. Her work was in collaboration with organizations such as UN, USAID, and World Vision.
Melissa has sat on numerous counsels, collaborative groups, and NGO board of directors seeking to provide insight into policy reform and program development for traumatized populations. Her efforts have spanned Africa, Latin America, Asia, the South Pacific, and North America. Melissa has her MA in Human Services and Counseling from Regent University (2017) and her BA in Sociology from Vanguard University (2003). In 2010, Melissa was the recipient of the American Red Cross Hero Award. She currently works as the Operations Director at Recovery Happens, as well as a clinical team member of Next Move Sacramento.
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