Training Curricula
Customizable training programs designed to strengthen clinical skills, improve outcomes, and support healthier organizations.
Dr. Michael McGee continually develops and refines his training programs to reflect emerging research and the changing needs of clinicians and organizations. Existing curricula can be customized—or new programs developed—to address your team’s specific goals and challenges.
Clarifying ASAM Criteria
These courses help clinicians understand and confidently apply the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s guidelines for placement, continued stay, transfer, and discharge.
- Understanding the ASAM Criteria
- Changes to the Fourth Edition
- ASAM Levels of Care and Service Components
Helping People Change, Heal, and Grow
These programs provide practical techniques for engaging patients, strengthening the therapeutic alliance, and helping difficult-to-reach individuals make meaningful changes.
- Motivational Interviewing 101
- Advanced Motivational Interviewing Skills
- Moving Beyond Compliance to Lasting Change
- Engaging People in Accountable, Collaborative Treatment
- What Makes or Breaks the Therapeutic Alliance
Recovery, Clinical Skills, and Outcomes
Training focuses on person-centered care, collaborative planning, therapeutic communication, and the clinical skills associated with better outcomes.
- The Strengths Model
- Principles of Personal Recovery Care
- Collaborative Care and Recovery Planning
- Feedback-Informed Treatment
- Therapeutic Alliance and Formulation
- Engagement and Dropout Prevention
- Deliberate Practice and Clinical Excellence
- Client-Friendly Documentation and Progress Notes
Understanding and Treating Addictions
These programs help clinicians better understand addiction and provide integrated, evidence-informed treatment for substance use and co-occurring conditions.
- Principles and Neurobiology of Addiction
- Medications for Addiction Treatment
- Pharmacotherapy for Complex Substance Use Disorders
- Integrated Treatment of Co-Occurring Disorders
- Recovery Management and Return to Use
- Network Therapy and CRAFT
- Enhancing Outcomes in Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Trauma
- Trauma 101: The Nature of Trauma and How to Heal
- The Neurobiology of Trauma and Its Treatment Implications
- A Trauma-Centered Approach to Addiction and Psychiatric Recovery
Justice-Involved Treatment
These trainings provide practical strategies for engaging mandated patients, collaborating with legal and treatment teams, reducing recidivism, and supporting accountable change.
Topics include motivational interviewing, alternatives to sanctions, transition into the community, multidisciplinary communication, participation and dropout prevention, and working effectively with mandated clients.
Clinician and Organizational Well-Being
Dr. McGee helps clinicians and teams address burnout, conflict, and organizational strain while maintaining the vitality needed to provide excellent care.
- Maintaining a Healthy Team
- Compassion Fatigue, Communication, Conflict, and Coping
- Surviving and Thriving During Organizational Change
Organizational and Systems Training
- Leveraging AI for Professional Development
- Feedback-Informed Management
- Systems for Feedback, Supervision, and Deliberate Practice
- Creating a Just and Feedback-Friendly Culture
- Implementing Feedback-Informed Treatment
Training Customized to Your Needs
Programs are available online or in person as one-day, multi-day, or ongoing engagements. Each training reflects Dr. McGee’s Be Well, Do Well philosophy, supporting clinician vitality and clinical skill as foundations for better patient care.
