Transform Your Approach to Patient Care
With In-Person and Virtual Clinical Training Sessions

Armed with the latest data, information, and best practices, along with his over 30 years of experience, Dr. Michael McGee can personalize a clinical training session that will transform the way you approach patient care. Each topic is designed to reinvigorate you and your team, providing you with strategies that help you connect with your patients on a deeper, more meaningful level to enact positive change in their lives.

Personalized Workshops, Keynote Speeches, and Breakout Sessions
From Award Winning Psychiatrist and Author Dr. Michael McGee

Supporting clients on their journey to personal growth requires a personalized approach, and so does managing your practice.

That's why every clinical training session is personalized just for you.

Dr. Michael McGee offers workshops, keynote presentations, conference breakout sessions, and webinars that tackle a wide range of topics. From technical knowledge and implementation to taking a deep dive into the psyche of patients and clinicians, his Be Well, Do Well approach to clinical care will arm you with the knowledge and inspiration you need to make an even bigger impact on patient outcomes.

Each presentation is organized below according to its major topic area, but trainings can be mixed, matched, and customized to meet your needs.

Clarifying ASAM Criteria

The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) has created the most comprehensive set of guidelines for the placement, continued stay, transfer, and discharge of patients who are experiencing an addiction, with and without co-occurring conditions.

It is the most widely used criteria for providing outcome-oriented and results-based care when treating addiction.

But, how does that translate to actual care? What is the ASAM Criteria and how can you integrate it into your practice?

Clarifying ASAM Criteria courses are designed to arm you with the knowledge you need to use it confidently and effectively in your practice.

What Using the ASAM Criteria Really Means

Skill-Building and Systems Change

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Skill-Building in the ASAM Criteria

Using the Criteria in a Managed Care Environment

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Improving Skills and Systems

to Implement The ASAM Criteria

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Understanding The ASAM Criteria

How to Work Effectively with Insurance Payers

and Utilization Review Using The ASAM Criteria

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Helping People Change, Heal, and Grow

 

There's much more to the therapeutic process than knowledge of conditions and treatment strategies. Helping patients create real, true, lasting change in their lives includes harnessing feelings of alliance and allegiance. When they feel like you care and they believe the time they spend with you is valuable and meaningful, you can help even the most difficult to reach patients.

It doesn't mean trying harder to empathize or putting up with unengaged behavior either. With the Helping People Change courses, you can learn detailed techniques that you can rely on time and time again to help clients open up so you can help them help themselves.

Motivational Interviewing 101

The Basics on Engaging People into Treatment

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Difficult to Reach Patients and Clients

How Motivational Interviewing Helps

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How Motivational Interviewing Can Help Begin The Change Conversation

With Customers In Integrated Health, Substance Use Disorders & Behavioral Health

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Engaging Participants in Accountable Change

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Helping People Change

What You Can Do to Make or Break the Therapeutic Alliance

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Helping People Change

How to Leverage the ASAM Criteria to Help People Change

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Motivating and Engaging Hard-to-Reach People

into Accountable, Collaborative Treatment

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Sticks and Stones

Words and Terms that Will Help You Ruin a Therapeutic Alliance

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Moving Beyond Compliance to Lasting Change

How The ASAM Criteria and Evidence-Based Practices Can Help

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Enhancing Clinical Skills and Outcomes

It's easy to get lost in the operation of your practice and approach patient care from your point of view as a provider. But, that can lead to poor patient outcomes because you're not taking a patient-centered approach to treatment planning.

This series of trainings enables you to focus on building skills and developing treatment plans that center completely on the patients you're serving. When you learn to focus on person-centered services, your patients will experience better outcomes, and you'll learn to walk the talk, which will help you build more meaningful connections with those you treat.

Enhancing Outcomes in Substance Use Disorder Treatment

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How to Do Effective Treatment Planning

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How to Develop Treatment Plans that Make Sense to Clients

Improving Documentation and Clinical Use of the Treatment Plan and Progress Notes

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Understanding the Formulation

as the Foundation for Successful Outcomes

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Principles of Therapeutic Communication

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Develop More Effective Attitudes

How to Stop Judging and Blaming Clients and Develop More Effective Attitudes

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Skill Building in the Therapeutic Alliance

and Collaborative Treatment and Documentation

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Successful Transition

Secrets for Successful Transition to the Community and Reducing Recidivism

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Therapeutic Alliance

How to create a solid therapeutic alliance

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Leverage Feedback

How to Leverage Feedback and Deliberate Practice to Optimize Outcomes

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Person-Centered Services

What Do You Really Mean and Walking the Talk

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Poor Outcomes?

What to Do with Poor Outcomes

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Moving Away from Cookie Cutter Care

What Individualized Treatment Really Means

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Understanding and Treating Addictions

As new research has been published and new methods of treatment are being conducted, we're learning that addiction is so much more than a brain disease. In order to truly support those who are struggling with an addiction, practitioners have to arm themselves with the latest knowledge.

That's what this series of trainings aims to do. Filled with information that will profoundly change the way you view addiction, each one will provide you with the knowledge you need to help your patients more deeply than you've ever done before.

What They Never Taught You in School About Substance Use and Addiction

The Neurobiology of Addiction

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Addiction: It Isn't All a Brain Disease

Medications for Addictions Treatment.

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Integrated Treatment

Integrated Treatment of Multimorbidity/Co-Occurring Disorders

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Pharmacotherapy for Complex Substance Use Disorders

(One-Day Workshop)

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Recovery Management

What Do You Really Mean and Walking the Talk about Recovery

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Principles of Addiction Treatment

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Why Integrating Addiction and Other Psychiatric Treatments Is Difficult

and What to Do About It

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Discovery, Dropout Prevention versus Recovery, Relapse Prevention

Doing Treatment and Change, not Doing Time

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Slips, Slides and Sobriety

Dealing with Return to Use

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Trauma

Trauma 101

The Nature of Trauma and How to Heal It

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Trauma-Centric Approach

A Trauma-Centric Approach to Healing and Recovery from Addictions and Other Psychiatric Conditions

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The Neurobiology of Trauma

and Its Treatment Implications

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Justice-Involved Treatment

Working with patients who require court ordered mental health treatment poses intense challenges. Patients aren't always engaged and relapse always feels like it's just around the corner. You are left feeling like you're helping your patients do their time, but they aren't actually experiencing lasting change.

There is hope when treating challenging patients in the court system when you receive the right support.

From learning how to deal with patients who aren't participating to knowing exactly what to say when working with law enforcement and court teams, Dr. Michael McGee's justice-involved treatment trainings will provide you with actionable knowledge you can use in your practice. You'll leave the training inspired to continue making a difference in your community.

Motivational Interviewing in Justice-Involved Settings

How to Help Mandated Participants Change and Grow

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Why Punishment Doesn't Work

to Produce Lasting Change and Alternatives to Sanctions

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Moving Beyond Compliance to Lasting Change

How The ASAM Criteria and Evidence-Based Practices Can Help

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Doing Time or Doing Change?

Collaborating for Accountable Treatment and Recovery

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Don't Give Treatment a Bad Name

What You Need to Know and Do to Work with Mandated Clients

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What to Do When Participants Aren't Really Participating

Doing the Minimum to Comply, Poor Attendance, Using Substances

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Discharge, Suspend or Sanction?

Improving Skills and Systems to Deal with Relapse, Continued Use and Continued Problems

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Five Key Principles in Helping People Change

Implications for Policies and Practices in Drug and Treatment Courts

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Words Matter

Terminology that Inhibits Successful Outcomes and What to Say if in a Court Team, Law Enforcement or Treatment

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Improving Communication and Multidisciplinary Team Work

How to Communicate and Integrate Treatment and Case information

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Clinician and Organizational Well-Being and Vitality

Your passion is helping patients, but with such a singular focus on patient care, your practice can start to show cracks. Without the right organizational strategies, it can crumble under the weight of conflicts, burnout, and other challenges.

With over 30 years of experience and armed with the latest information and research, Dr. Michael McGee offers a few different trainings that will help you maintain a healthy mindset and a healthy team, even in the midst of helping those with the most challenging addictions and mental health issues.

Maintaining Vitality

in the Face of Work/Clinical Adversity

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Managing Macro and Micro Aggressions

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Compassion Fatigue, Communication, Conflict, Coping

How to Keep the Behavioral Health Team Healthy

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Maintaining a Healthy Team

How to Survive and Thrive During Integration Implementation

One-Day and Multi-Day Trainings,
Online or In-Person,
That Are Completely Customized According to Your Needs

No matter what the size of your team or the challenges you're facing, Dr. Michael McGee can personalize a training session just for you.

Each one includes from-the-heart techniques based on Dr. McGee's Be Well, Do Well approach that supports wellness and clinical skill among clinicians as the first step to wellness among patients. You will return to your practice with knowledge and strategies that will reinvigorate your mindset so you can bring even better care to those you serve.