Event Description:  This workshop will provide an in-depth view of compassionate accountability – a technique and intervention that demonstrates compassion for how the individual developed the SUD (hearing their story) and accountability for their behavior (holding them accountable for their behavioral choices).

Faculty
Geri Miller, Ph.D., ABPP, LP (NC), LCAS (NC), CCS (NC), MAC (NCCAP) is a Human Relations Trainer/Consultant. She taught in higher education from 1990 until she retired as Professor in 2022. Dr. Miller has worked in the mental health counseling field since 1976 and the SUD counseling field since 1979. In both fields she has been a counselor, educator, trainer, and researcher. She worked as a volunteer psychologist at the Watauga County Health Department for 25 years through December 2020. Since 2001, she has a history of working as a volunteer with the American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Services. Dr. Miller has published and presented research on counseling. She currently has a book in press with Wiley, Inc [Group Exercises for Substance Use Disorders (2nd ed.)] and in 2024 published a book with Cognella, Inc [A Practical Guide to Facilitating Substance Use Disorder Recovery]. She has also published these books: "Academic Violence and Bullying of Faculty" (2024) (Cognella, Inc) and 8 books with Wiley Press ["Incorporating Spirituality in Counseling and Psychotherapy" (2003), "Fundamentals of Crisis Counseling" (2011), "Group Exercises for Addiction Counseling" (2012), and "Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling (5th Edition)" (2021)]. She is a member of the American Counseling Association's divisions of the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC) and the International Association of Addictions and Offender Counselors (IAAOC). Dr. Miller has served on the North Carolina Addictions Specialist Professional Practice Board.