First 1-2 Years: Surviving the Basics
Blog #1 in the New Clinician Survival Kit Series (“I hate group therapy!”) Today, if I could only do group therapy – especially with adolescents
Quick take: Three weeks, three truths: you’re already working with addiction, intake illusions hurt care, and silence is data. This SUD screening playbook puts it
Quick take: Silence isnāt absenceāitās data. During intake, pauses, topic pivots, or ānot reallyā answers often mark risk and uncertainty, not āno use.ā A short,
Quick take: If your intake skips SUD Screening, youāre not protecting rapportāyouāre protecting an illusion. A few neutral questions can change the entire course of
āI donāt work with addiction.ā Iāve heard this sentence countless times from clinicians in mental health, social work, and even primary care. Sometimes itās said
Closing the Gap Between Commitment and Care with a Treatment Readiness Toolkit When a client says āyesā to treatment, momentum is at its peak. But
Physical + digital tools designed for your first 1-2 years: confidence planners, supervision checklists, boundary scripts, and reflection worksheets.
