🚀 READY TO EXPAND YOUR EXPERTISE IN ADDICTION TREATMENT? Registration is still open for the upcoming Medication Assisted Treatment Specialist (MATS) Training! Medication-assisted treatment continues to play an important role in addiction care. Strengthening your knowledge in this area can help you better understand treatment approaches, client support, care coordination, and recovery management. The Medication Assisted Treatment Specialist (MATS) Training offers an opportunity to deepen your understanding of this important area of practice while developing specialized knowledge to support your professional growth. HERE’S WHAT THE TRAINING INCLUDES: ✅ 40 CE hours ✅ MATS Endorsement upon successful completion, subject to the issuing board’s requirements ✅ Live virtual kickoff followed by self-paced online learning modules ✅ Weekly exams to reinforce your learning ✅ Six weeks of structured professional development 📅 LIVE KICKOFF: Monday, November 9, 2026 ⏰ TIME: 1:00 PM EST 💻 FORMAT: Live Zoom session followed by self-paced online learning 📚 PROGRAM DURATION: Six weeks INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING? For more information about the training, endorsement requirements, and registration, please contact your certification board directly. Take the next step in expanding your knowledge and strengthening your expertise in addiction treatment!

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I have started and deleted this post more times than I can count because there are no words that make this make sense. As Counsellors, we know what Domestic Violence is, in fact many of us have experienced it in one way or another whether that be with our clients or ourselves. Yesterday, my friend Mandy Fackler was murdered in a heinous act of Domestic Violence. She was a mother. A friend. A professional. A woman with plans, people who loved her, children who needed her, and an entire life that should still be happening today. And now she is gone because of domestic violence. Mandy was also an absolute force. We bonded over our mutual love of freedom, liberty, guns, and our very strong opinions about all three. That woman could spend the entire day out shooting and somehow clean herself up and be at the Governor's Mansion that night and tucking the babies in for bedtime. That was Mandy. She could hold her own anywhere, with anyone. She was strong, outspoken, fiercely independent, passionate about what she believed in, and unapologetically herself. She was the kind of woman you noticed when she walked into a room. She was a power to be reckoned with. And maybe that is part of what makes this so incredibly difficult to process. Because domestic violence does not only happen to women who appear powerless. A woman can be strong as hell and still be a victim. She can be intelligent, successful, independent, capable, armed, politically connected, deeply loved, and completely able to take care of herself in every other area of her life and still be harmed by someone she trusted. Strength does not make someone immune to domestic violence. Mandy had previously believed there was something worth saving in this relationship. Earlier this year she publicly wrote about believing they might be able to grow together instead of apart. She wanted harmony for her family. She believed in another chance.

Fellow Addiction Counsellors… this is your reminder. You spend your entire week holding space for chaos, crisis, relapse, trauma, grief, and everything in between. You show up steady, grounded, and strong even when your clients can’t. But here’s the truth nobody says enough: You are not immune to burnout just because you’re trained. If you don’t take time to decompress, reset, and come back to yourself, it will catch up to you. Not maybe. Not eventually. It will. This weekend is not just “time off.”It’s recovery time for you. Step away from the heaviness.Turn off the clinical brain for a bit. Do something that reminds you who you are outside of your role. Because the version of you your clients need next week?That version only exists if you take care of yourself now. You can’t pour from empty and still call it ethical. Take the break. You've earned it! Happy Friday!