Ashton Tisdale (she/her/hers)

I have been working with families of people who have substance use and addiction issues for the last 9 years. I understand that codependency can become an addiction in itself, and enjoy teaching families how to combat enabling and walking on egg shells by being assertive and supporting recovery. I also have personally struggled with codependency in the past and offer a personal perspective for how to recover as a family member and loved one.

I am a Licensed Addiction Counselor, Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor, and Master Addiction Counselor. I have worked with people with substance use disorders for the last 9 years in inpatient, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and monitoring settings. I understand that recovery management is a lifestyle and offer expertise in how to use skills and put supports in place to have a recovery lifestyle.

I have been working with families of people who have substance use and addiction issues for the last 9 years. I understand that codependency can become an addiction in itself, and enjoy teaching families how to combat enabling and walking on egg shells by being assertive and supporting recovery. I also have personally struggled with codependency in the past and offer a personal perspective for how to recover as a family member and loved one.

I have been working with teenagers and young adults for the last 9 years. I understand developmentally what adolescents go through, and use that knowledge to teach adolescents helpful emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. I also understand that teenagers are more likely to engage in risky behaviors and have intense emotions, which is why I focus on teaching teens how to be autonomous by using better problem solving skills.

I have been working with families of people who have substance use and addiction issues for the last 9 years. I understand that codependency can become an addiction in itself, and enjoy teaching families how to combat enabling and walking on egg shells by being assertive and supporting recovery. I also have personally struggled with codependency in the past and offer a personal perspective for how to recover as a family member and loved one.

I am a Licensed Addiction Counselor, Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor, and Master Addiction Counselor. I have worked with people with substance use disorders for the last 9 years in inpatient, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and monitoring settings. I understand that recovery management is a lifestyle and offer expertise in how to use skills and put supports in place to have a recovery lifestyle.

I have been working with families of people who have substance use and addiction issues for the last 9 years. I understand that codependency can become an addiction in itself, and enjoy teaching families how to combat enabling and walking on egg shells by being assertive and supporting recovery. I also have personally struggled with codependency in the past and offer a personal perspective for how to recover as a family member and loved one.

I am a Licensed Addiction Counselor, Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor, and Master Addiction Counselor. I have worked with people with substance use disorders for the last 9 years in inpatient, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and monitoring settings. I understand that recovery management is a lifestyle and offer expertise in how to use skills and put supports in place to have a recovery lifestyle.

I believe in myself as a motivational therapist. I believe in meeting a client where they are in the various stages of change, and also use strategies to help a client enhance their internal motivation to reach their goals. Sometimes I ask hard questions, in an attempt for a client to take a deep look at how their current behaviors might be holding them back or helping them make the changes they want to make.

Most of the coping skills I teach clients come from the Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness modules from DBT. I like how DBT takes a balanced approach to managing daily stressors and requires a client to analyze what is going on in the moment. I also find DBT skills to be easy to remember and practice.

I consider myself a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, especially because I have taught graduate level classes about CBT for 3 years. I believe that by changing thoughts, behaviors and emotions can be changed, allowing clients to experience less distress and more contentment in their lives. I also believe in looking at core beliefs, or schemas, in terms of analyzing stuck points and finding out where certain negative thinking patterns come from.

Most of my clinical experience has been working with adolescents, young adults, and adults with substance use disorders. I am an expert in substance misuse, relapse prevention, and recovery management. I also use Motivational Enhancement Therapy, an evidence based practice that is effective for people struggling misuse who are thinking about getting into a recovery lifestyle. I operate from the Recovery Management perspective, and focus on recovery as a lifestyle versus sobriety alone.

I am extensively trained in Schema Therapy, which has been shown to be effective with personality disorders and chronic emotional disorders. Schema Therapy involves looking at unmet needs in early childhood that led to maladaptive core beliefs, and how those core beliefs are negatively impacting the present. Schema Therapy aims to change core beliefs into more effective ones to accomplish current goals and enjoy life in general.

I am a Certified Trauma Resolution Energy Therapy (TRET) Practitioner, a therapy that focuses on healing energy related to past and current traumas in the realms of mind, body, and spirit. TRET initially focuses on reducing the emotional charge, or energy, associated with the root causes of current problems. Over time, TRET fosters holistic healing through the mind-body connection by replacing emotionally charged energy with new positive core beliefs.

I am a Licensed Addiction Counselor and Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor. My training, and the bulk of my clinical experience, has focused on substance use disorders and the treatments associated with them. I use Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Recovery Management to assist clients who are trying to engage in a recovery lifestyle by focusing on tangible behaviors and cognitive restructuring to make substance use less salient in a client's life.

I am extensively trained in Schema Therapy, which has been shown to be effective with personality disorders and chronic emotional disorders. Schema Therapy involves looking at unmet needs in early childhood that led to maladaptive core beliefs, and how those core beliefs are negatively impacting the present. Schema Therapy aims to change core beliefs into more effective ones to accomplish current goals and enjoy life in general.

I am a Certified Trauma Resolution Energy Therapy (TRET) Practitioner, a therapy that focuses on healing energy related to past and current traumas in the realms of mind, body, and spirit. TRET initially focuses on reducing the emotional charge, or energy, associated with the root causes of current problems. Over time, TRET fosters holistic healing through the mind-body connection by replacing emotionally charged energy with new positive core beliefs.