Small Groups for Large Gains
In the Professional Treatment Program, patients reside in our gender-responsive facilities. Three times per week, you participate in a mixed gender group to address issues unique to professionals. Your primary group includes five to twelve patients, while your gender-specific rehab community will include twenty to twenty-four patients. These small primary groups and communities allow you to develop deep connections and form relationships with peers going through similar experiences and working through similar issues. This intimate, gender-responsive setting helps you feel comfortable communicating openly and honestly in process groups, build self-confidence, develop a strong peer support network, and focus on recovery without unnecessary distractions.
Evidenced-Based, Data-Driven Therapy
Our Professional Program includes gender-responsive, trauma-informed modes of treatment tested by time and verified by decades of scientific research. You’ll participate in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Family Therapy, Psychodynamic-Oriented Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy, and Medically-Informed Psychopharmacology as needed.
These evidence-based therapies provide the structure, insight, support, and skill-building that forms a solid foundation for your sustained recovery from addiction and related mental health disorders. They teach you how to transform coping mechanisms from harmful to helpful, replace old, self-destructive habits, with new, life-affirming habits, and give you the tools needed to continue your recovery journey after treatment.
Providing Comprehensive Professional Evaluations Since 2001
Lakeview Health’s Comprehensive Professional Evaluation is staffed by some of the most experienced medical and clinical providers in the country. Since Lakeview Health’s inception in 2001, we have provided assessments and treatment to thousands of individuals across the United States. Our professional assessment is comprehensive and multidisciplinary while interfacing with professional monitoring organizations, state licensing boards, federal regulators, a variety of worksites, and professional interventionists. The typical assessment we manage includes diagnostic clarification guided by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) criteria, psychiatric diagnoses guided by American Psychiatric Association (APA) criteria, chronic pain guided by American Academy of Pain Medicine criteria, cognitive assessment, disruptive behavior in the workplace, professional boundaries, and sexual harassment.
Our comprehensive evaluation includes attention to a wide range of potential variables, such as:
- Psychiatric Illness
- Medication Management
- Psychological and Interpersonal Functioning
- Substance Use Disorders (SUD)
- Addictive Processes
- Cognitive Functioning
- Medical/Physical Issues
As an integral part of the evaluation processes, we gather extensive collateral information from the workplace and other significant sources. Our narrative represents a unanimity among members of the team, based on all of this available evidence.
Our evaluation can:
- Provide diagnostic clarification and a comprehensive assessment that covers a variety of issues (e.g. substance use disorders, mood disorder, disruptive behavior issues, personality disorder, trauma, and professionalism).
- Determine what level of care is needed, which is guided by the ASAM criteria.
- Provide recommendations regarding the optimal type and level of treatment (e.g. outpatient, residential).
- Provide recommendations to assist aftercare/monitoring agencies, which increases accountability and facilitates successful re-entry into the workplace.
- Provide recommendations that guide treatment planning and aftercare.
Our Mission
Our goal at Lakeview Health is to always provide the highest-quality, comprehensive, objective, and multidisciplinary evaluation that yields clear and specific diagnoses and recommendations constructed on the best clinical practices. We strive to serve three purposes:
1) to assist the individual and monitoring/licensing bodies;
2) to protect the public welfare; and
3) to aid distressed professionals in getting the help they need in order to resume a productive career.
Who is Appropriate for the Comprehensive Evaluation?
Individuals with Substance Use Disorder who may be in need of diagnostic clarification. This Addiction Evaluation may include a comprehensive assessment, if appropriate, when there are other significant issues aside from addiction that needs to be assessed (e.g. psychiatric illness, personality disorder, problems in vocational functioning, etc.).
- Individuals with a Substance Use Disorder who display “disruptive behaviors” – a style of interaction with personnel, professional, or others – that interfere with the smooth functioning of an organization. Disruptive behaviors make it more difficult for others to complete their jobs effectively and harder for those individuals to communicate openly. These behaviors may interfere with the mission of the organization or the safety of others. Some examples include inappropriately expressed anger, blaming, sarcasm, threats, demeaning or belittling language toward others (particularly subordinates or patients), problems with authority, unprofessional demeanor, unreliability, harassment, or repeated conflicts with others.
- Individuals who may have difficulties with professional ethics (e.g. poor relationships with others, improper use of one’s authority, diversion of medication, etc.).
- Individuals whose functioning in the workplace has decreased significantly, whether due to the issues mentioned above, a Substance Use Disorder, or to another psychiatric disorder (e.g., depression, bipolar illness).
- Individuals who have come to the attention of a licensing body because of legal problems (e.g., DUI, unprofessional boundaries).
Assessment Components
- Addiction Medicine Evaluation
- Psychiatric Evaluation
- Psychological Evaluation (if indicated) for an additional fee
- Psychological Testing, including neuropsychological screening and personality assessment (if indicated) for an additional fee
- Neuro-cognitive Assessment
- Gathering of collateral information
- Physical examination
- Laboratory work, including chain-of-custody urine, hair, and/or fingernail toxicology screening
- Polygraph testing and comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation (if indicated) for an additional fee.
Assessment Process
- Assuming the individual is appropriate, basic information regarding the evaluation is provided to the evaluee, and basic information is gathered from the evaluee and the referral source(s).
- The evaluee arrives, completes initial paperwork, consents, and releases of information, and labs are drawn.
- Each component of the evaluation listed above is completed by different professional encounters. This may take place over a period of two to three days.
- Collateral information is gathered with permission of the evaluee.
- Individual assessments are completed, and the principal members of the team meet to discuss the findings.
- Evaluation team arrives at consensus regarding diagnoses, level of care needed, and recommendations.
- Based on the consensus, a short written and signed document containing the initial diagnoses and recommendations is sent to the referral source, and if allowed or indicated, results are verbally communicated to the evaluee. This typically materializes within one week of the evaluation.
- Within 10 business days, the comprehensive report – containing all of the individual assessments, the collateral information, a summary of findings, and final diagnostic impressions and recommendations – will be sent to the referral source. The report is also available to the evaluee upon request.
Our experienced clinicians include the following:
- Ellen Ovson, MD, FASAM
- Adrian Blotner, MD, FAPA
- Philip Hemphill, PhD, LCSW
- Elizabeth Riemann, MS, CMHP
- Kacie Sasser, ARNP, MSN, FNP-C, CAR
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Daily Life in the Professional Program