Episode 4 A Diverse & Authentic Clinical Team Watch Now https://youtu.be/4BzwTSCCAS8 *Fast forward past 5 minute prep time to watch episode Listen Now Episode 4  We discuss the importance of having a strong clinical team that is diverse in their strengths and approaches, but above all, has the ability to show up as their authentic self. Topics: How many clinicians may have the same credentials, but each may have unique approaches and skillsets in how they support their clients. Dissolving the tension between the individual struggling with addiction and the family members The importance of appropriately matching a treatment program’s curriculum to the skillsets of each individual clinician, AND making sure the clinicians are willing to be immersed into the culture. How in order to be a great and impactful clinician, it requires some crucial and extra fundamental pieces (outside of licenses and credentials) to actually be able to support and show up for clients.  Select Quotes In order to do this work, you have to your own work. You have to work on yourself and have a high degree of self-awareness, appropriately placed boundaries, along with an openness. In order to be open to impacting people you also get to be open to being impacted by people, it goes both ways.Jason Friesema MA, LPC, LAC, - Chief Clinical Officer In addiction treatment, authenticity in a counselor is absolutely the most essential. A lot of our clients have experienced treatment and counseling in the past, so they know the language, the “clinical jargon”, they can read a counselor who is not being genuine like that. So they need to be able to show up as their true self.Clinton Nicholson, MA, LPC, NCC - Chief Operations Officer Episode Transcripts Episode 4 Transcript[Music]welcome to another episode of findingpeaks i believe this is uhepisode four i was told yeah yeahit's again because i was told the priorepisode wasthe third and i actually stated it wasthe fourth sowelcome to the fourth episode here mathshardyes yeah math is difficult sojust want to start uh today with uh wehave some title changes in the room hereat uhpeaks recovery centers jason friesma isnow our chief clinical officeroh and the crowd goes wild thank you fora whileand introducing the new chief operatingofficer of peaks recovery centers clintnicholson everybodyclinton yes also a therapist clapi would slow class i would also like tointroduce also a therapisti'd also like to introduce clinton'scowboy boots uh also making anappearance todayright here yeah i recently purchased atruck and they came with the trucknice congratulations on that and i havea really big dealobligated to wear them by dodge so asacross that off the listas these episodes roll along we'regetting feedbackand some of that feedback so far hasbeen that uh we're a littlewe're seemingly a little too uptight umin these sessions so we're really tryingtoexplore not doing that here so expectbad jokes so let's expect bad jokesmoving forwardalways difficult at least for me indoing this show because there's aseriousness to addiction treatmentcertainlyand individuals are suffering of courseacross america from the disease ofaddiction and soum it's not always you know i haven'tpersonally known how to approach itmyself or how serious to be on camerabecause it isserious to us and certainly each andevery day we come at you know and towork with the seriousness and gettingpeople well butuh certainly want people to appreciatewatching us andnot be so serious yeah do you guys liketocomment on that i'm feeling a littlenervous todayi agree okay um i'm hopeful that you'vescripted some jokesi have no jokes okay so we'll jump rightinto it okayyeah so last week uh clinton saidsomething was a little passive i don'tknow if everybody caught it in the thirdepisode but i think he said somethingalong the lines ofi'm not excellent i'm maybe great at thefamilyside of things that's uh that'...