The 3c’s of Life: Choices, Chances, Changes.
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Coach joe, lpc
Coach Joe, the owner/consultant for All About Choices (LLC), a post held since establishing the firm more than ten years ago. Coach Joe has a background as a health care professional with 30 years of educational and behavioral-mental health experience in diverse settings. Coach Joe's experience ranges from adult-juvenile court systems, state welfare agencies, the faith-based community, marriage-couples support groups, youth residential care homes, and community-based behavioral/mental health and substance abuse agencies. His approach to therapy is an eclectic therapist using brief and solution-focused techniques and cognitive-behavioral, reality, and psychodynamic approaches. He has a broad background in program development and service delivery and individual, groups, couples, family counseling, and crisis intervention & assessments.
He is trained and certified in multiple discipline areas: Domestic Violence, Substance Abuse, Couples/Relationship Counseling, Trauma-Focused-Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), Child Impact-Parent Education, Choice Based Anger Management, Shoplifting-Theft Prevention, and Values Clarification, Thinking for a Change, Aggression Replacement Therapy (ART), and Life Skill Education. Coach Joe is a Licensed Professional Counselor (L.P.C.) by the State of Georgia and has achieved National Board Certification as a National Certified Counselor (N.C.C.).
He has obtained multiple certifications throughout his career. Coach Joe is a Certified Anger Management Specialist, a Georgia Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor III (GCADC), a Certified Masters Addiction Counselor (M.A.C.), a Certified Co-Occurring Disorders Professional-Diplomate (CCDP-D), a Certified Georgia DBHDD-DUI Clinical Evaluator. He's an approved State of Georgia ASAM I/II Treatment Provider and certified by the Georgia Commission on Family Violence as a Family Violence Intervention Facilitator. . Coach Joe is trained in Family/Couples Relationship Counseling.
Coach Joe's expertise is used to:
- Facilitate: individual, group, family, and relationship counseling
- Resolve challenges: in complex clinical and non-clinical delivery systems
- Integrate behavioral healthcare into court order mandated services
- Design interventions to address traumatic experiences in adolescent males
- Promote models that ensure culturally and linguistically competent care
- Devise financial and programmatic strategies and identify opportunities for business development
- Develop a plan for those with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental illness
- Enhance compliance with federal and state regulations, including parity mandates for the provision of mental health, substance use disorder services, and mandate court-ordered programs and services.
Coach Joe's skills:
- Problem solvers: provide concrete strategies individuals can use to overcome obstacles in their life and help individuals create a new life path.
- Relationship builders: Trust is hugely important in working with individuals in counseling or psychoeducational setting. Each person involved must believe that the professional they're working with isn't biased against them.
- Good listeners: has well-developed listening skills and the ability to hear what's not being said out loud.
- Culturally sensitive: respectful of people regardless of their ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, race, religion, or sexual orientation. Different cultures can have very different ideas about what constitutes a healthy marriage and love relationship.