Denise R. Hall
is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC). Ms. Hall received her MS degree in Rehabilitation Counseling in 1992. Since that time, she has worked with both adolescent and adult populations along the continuum of care, to include residential, inpatient, partial, IOP and outpatient. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and serves on the NIDA Blending Team for the Motivational Interviewing.
Denise also has an interest in drug courts and currently serves as a part-time faculty member/consultant for the Drug Court Planning Initiative. Ms. Hall is also a member of NAADAC and is the endorsement liaison for the Adolescent Specialty Committee (ASC). In addition, she is a member of The Partnership for Juvenile Services. She presents on adolescent issues, engagement techniques, program structure and girls/women’s issues. Denise serves as a project coordinator in organizational training and implementation of Evidence Based Practices and as the Mid-Atlantic ATTC NIDA liaison.
Sandy Gharib, LPC
holds a Masters degree in Counseling from Eastern Mennonite University. She is also a Licensed Professional Counselor. For over 8 years, Sandy has worked in the community mental health setting. She has worked extensively in the area of Motivational Interviewing program design and treatment for substance abusers. Sandy co-authored a treatment manual: Motivational Groups for Community Substance Abuse Programs. In addition, Sandy is a certified MINT and Aricular Detoxification Specialist.
Sandy Kanehl
holds a Master of Education in Counseling and is a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor. She worked in the public addiction treatment system in Virginia for almost 30 years as a counselor, program manager and supervisor in all levels of care in both outpatient and residential programs. She also served as director of prevention services. Sandy has taught Counselor Identity Function and Ethics, Substance Abuse Counseling, and topics in Advanced Substance Abuse Counseling at Lynchburg College, as well as presenting at Virginia Counselor’s Association Conventions and American Counseling Association conventions in San Diego, San Antonio and New Orleans. She has served on the board of the Virginia Association of Drug and Alcohol Programs (VADAP) for more than 10 years and is Past President. Over the last five years she has developed and delivered training around Virginia on topics related to Advocacy, for the Substance Abuse and Addiction Recovery Alliance of Virginia (SAARA). She is the recipient of SAARA’s 2009 Champion of Recovery Advocacy Award.
Charlotte Chapman, M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling, MAC, CAC, LPC
Director of Counseling Services
UVA Women's Center
Charlotte is a certified addictions counselor and licensed professional counselor. Charlotte has over twenty years experience as a counselor, supervisor and program administrator in the substance abuse and mental health field. She also teaches ethics courses for substance abuse counselor certification and for graduate level counselors. She has published articles on ethics in the substance abuse field and served on professional ethics committees and credentialing boards.
Email: charlotte@chapmantraining.com
Laurie Rokutani, Ed.S., M.Ed., CPP, MAC, NCC
Laurie has been a counselor for 30 years, serving a wide variety of clientele from indigent substance abusers to the very affluent. She has worked in both private and public agencies, from coast to coast and in between. She shifted gears from general counseling to a focus on substance abuse counseling, and then shifted again into substance abuse prevention (K-12). Her work in prevention included student assistance program counseling and coordination.
Laurie’s next step was out of direct service and into academia at The College of William and Mary. She taught both prevention and counseling courses and provided prevention consultation to schools and agencies as a part of the counseling program's emphasis in addiction counseling and prevention. She currently works for the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Technology Transfer Center and the Office of Substance Abuse Services, training substance abuse counselors in Virginia.
I have also had some personal experience with "cultural diversity" having grown up in the only family of color (I'm a sansei) in my small midwestern home town.
Scott Reiner
is certified as an addictions counselor (CSAC and CAC) and clinical supervisor (CCS)
Scott has been employed for the past 15 years by the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice. During this time, he has been responsible for development and oversight of the agency’s response to the issues of substance abuse among juvenile offenders in both secure institutions and community-based settings, including development of screening and assessment strategies, a continuum of treatment programs, program evaluation and training.
Scott is a trainer and consultant regarding a range of issues concerning juvenile justice, addictions and mental health and also serves as the Criminal Justice Coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Technology Transfer Center. He is or has been on the adjunct faculty of the Department of Criminal Justice at Virginia Commonwealth University and the College of Health Sciences at Old Dominion University. In addition to holding a masters degree in Clinical Psychology.
Charles F. (Rick) Gressard, Ph.D.
is an Associate Professor in the Counseling Program at the College of William and Mary. He has 26 years experience in the field of addictions counseling and addictions counselor education. Before completing his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa, Rick worked as a substance abuse counselor for five years, including a one-year NIMH traineeship at Harvard and the Washingtonian Center for Addictions. He has taught in counseling programs at SUNY-Buffalo, James Madison University, and the University of Virginia, where he was Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Counseling Director of the Addiction Sciences Center. Rick is also an active researcher and recently served for four years on the Virginia Board of Professional Counselors. He currently serves as a member of the ACA Ethics Committee and the NBCC Addictions Academy, and as Chair of the Virginia Department of Health Professions' Impaired Professionals Program. Rick was recently awarded the William Van Hoose Career Service Award by the Virginia Counselors Association.
Dawn Farrell-Moore, LCSW, CSAC
Dawn Farrell-Moore has worked in the field of social work for over 12 years with 10 years experience in the area of women-specific substance use issues. She is experienced in the operation of women’s services, particularly the perinatal/postpartum population, and in providing services to urban, minority women (and their children) suffering from substance use disorders and co-occurring mental illness. She is currently the Special Projects Manager for the Richmond Behavioral Health Authority’s Substance Abuse Division where she monitors various state and federal grant programs as well as grantwriting activities.
She has provided local, state, and national consultation and/or trainings in the areas of women’s addiction, program development, and parenting. She has experience in the development of both gender-specific programs and grant applications.
Mrs. Farrell-Moore possesses an LCSW and has CSAC certification. She is past-Chair of the Commonwealth Partnership for Women and Children Affected by Substance Use and participates on many local workgroups related to women’s substance use issues.
Kevin Doyle
Kevin Doyle is the Vice-President for Enhancement and Chief Enhancement Officer for Vanguard ServicesUnlimited, a non–profit, substance abuse treatment agency based in Arlington (Va.). He has served as Project Director for Vanguard’s CSAT grant to improve treatment access and retention from 2003-2007 as part of the national Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx) and has worked in the addiction treatment field since 1986. Doyle received his doctorate in Counselor Education from the University of Virginia in 1999 and is licensed as a Professional Counselor and as a Substance Abuse Treatment Practitioner (LSATP) in Virginia. In 2002, he was appointed by Governor Mark Warner to the
Commonwealth of Virginia’s Board of Counseling, and served as Chairman of the Board from 2005-2007.
His professional interests include counseling ethics, the recovering college student, and adolescents. He serves as an editorial board member for the Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling, is a past-President of the Virginia Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (VAADAC), and is a past Chair of the Ethics Committee of the International Association of Addictions and Offender Counselors (IAAOC).
