For Fellow Professionals

Do you remember the days when you used to be excited about work each day? Do you wish you could get that energy back?
Or maybe you just need a new perspective on a tough case?

Give your career a much needed boost! Rejuvenate your day-to-day with Dr. Stanger’s influence.

There are a multitude of ways that Dr. Stanger can support your professional development, and that of your co-workers, colleagues, or students. Often times finding opportunities to continue learning outside of a university, clinical, or employer-sponsored program can be difficult. Additionally, taking time off for multi-day conferences can be burdensome and result in decreased profitability for you or your company. Allow Dr. Stanger to work with you as a mentor, lecturer, or trainer depending on your specific situation and enhance your professional career with her decades of experience, handsome credentials, and natural teaching ability.

Below are a variety of ways that Dr. Stanger can work with you and your precise situation. Feel free to choose from a category below, or create your own personalized program. A follow up call to Dr. Stanger will finalize the details you are looking for.

Trainings and Workshops

Dr. Stanger offers a variety of trainings and workshops to all professionals who work with families facing problems. Below is a brief listing of trainings available, however customized trainings are offered upon request.

  • The Stanger Intervention Process: An Eleven-Step Process for a Twelve-Step Solution
  • Solution-Focused Therapy – What is it? How to Integrate It into Your Practice
  • Stumbling Blocks to Recovery: The Family: Can’t Live With Them Can’t Live Without Them
  • Spirituality and Recovery
  • Young Adult Interventions and Recovery
  • Using Technology to Create Health and Wellness in Families
  • Family Estate and Wealth Lawyers: Working With Distressed Families
  • Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Coaching, Cognitive Behavioral and 12-Step Facilitation
  • Strategies for Working With the Resistant Client and Their Families
  • Process Addictions of the Wealthy: Shifting Means from Destructive to Constructive

For more information, please contact me: 619-507-1699

Consulting

From decades of experience, extensive traveling, and networks developed, Dr. Stanger is able to help treatment professionals sort through and discover what solutions are best for their clients.

“I am well versed in high-end treatment options as well as more financially moderate treatment centers. I offer consulting services to clinicians – both Licensed and License Eligible (LCSW, MFT, BRN, PsychD, MD), Hospital Social Workers and Psychologists, CADAC, Certified S, Certified Rehabilitation Counselors, Educators-University, Public and Private School High School Teachers and Counselors.”

For more information, please contact me: 619-507-1699

Mentoring and Coaching

Mentoring and coaching is a good way to expand your career, your education, or your practice. From the most experienced to the newly graduated, each clinician can benefit from mentoring and coaching opportunities.

If you are a licensed (LCSW, PsychD, MFT, MD, BRN, CADAC, BRII, BRI I, BRN, CRC) or license-eligible professional, mentoring is available to you. One-on-one and small-group coaching is available for those wanting to learn more about working with families facing addiction, grief and loss, and mental health issues. If you want to learn how to integrate Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused and Cognitive Behavioral therapies into your practice, you may find mentoring a good way to enhance your practice skills.

“If you are tired of being tired, because your client seems like he or she is not making any progress while running you ragged, you may want to learn how to heal yourself by integrating an intervention processes into your practice.”

For more information, please contact me: 619-507-1699

Family Addiction Program Development

Dr. Stanger will design a family addiction program for your facility and train your staff on the best evidenced-based modalities.

Resources

Richard J. Frances, Shelden I. Miller, Avram H. Mack, 3rd ed. Clinical Textbook of Addictive Disorders, New York: Guilford Press

There are so many books out on addiction and mental health disorders. In my family coaching program I use a lot of bibliotherapy. In addition to your own professional journals, Hazelden Press is probably the largest publisher in the addiction field, so check out their professional section. It always stimulates new ideas for me. Likewise, Gurze is the largest publisher on eating disorders.

The Journal of Alcohol Studies comes highly recommended by Dr. Stanger because its publications include the most recent and up-to-date alcohol research.

If you have a question about a resource, or have one to share, please contact Dr. Stanger.

Additionally, the web offers a cornucopia of information on myriad web sites.

Recommended Trainings

Betty Ford Institute and Hazelden have excellent on-site professional in-residence training programs. Dr Stanger has attended Hazelden’s Family Program and Women in Recovery Conferences, and has been a participant at Betty Ford’s Professional In-Residence Training for Families and In-Patient, as well as their Women’s Conferences. While an administrator at a California University, Dr. Stanger attended the Betty Ford Clinic’s programs, while also providing in-service trainings for the Betty Ford Clinic’s professional staff.

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I invite you to contact me online or give me a call at 619-507-1699 and learn for yourself how powerful an intervention can be.

Contact
An Original Poem: Imagine

Often families come to me when their imagination, their hope is gone.
I ask them to:

Imagine what would it be like for you to not worry at night about your loved one

Imagine not having to call the police

Imagine not having to wonder where someone is

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Testimonials
  • Louise is a competent, hard working, and committed woman. Her initiative and creativity are marked. Louise’s knowledge and skill in the area of substance abuse are excellent, made stronger by her spirit of compassion.
    - Barbara Quinn RJCS, Director, University of San Diego, Boston College
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  • Louise Stanger has an innate ability to encourage and empower the women she works with. With kindness and integrity she guides you along the process of life changes helping you focus on the important aspects of your life and helping you discover within yourself your inner strength and value along with a clear idea of [...]
    - Sandra F, Utah
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  • I was very fortunate to be a student in Dr. Stanger’s graduate level Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Intervention class at San Diego State’s School of Social Work. She is an enthusiastic, knowledgeable professor who inspires students to do their best. Dr. Stanger brings a wealth of experience and a comprehensive understanding of addiction and family [...]
    - Connie Collins, LCSW Psy.D.
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  • Louise Stanger is deeply concerned for the well-being of her clients and their families, and works tirelessly to achieve good outcomes for all.
    - Dr. Regina Fleming, Director UC San Diego Student Health Center, La Jolla, CA
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  • Dr. Stanger’s focused training and experience is a remarkable resource for those struggling to break the grip of addiction. She brilliantly sets the priority and process of change with clarity and helps the whole family face the challenge ahead.
    - Dr. Joe Bratsky, Psychologist, La Jolla, CA
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  • Dr. Stanger is the most experienced professional and truly gifted interventionist that I have worked with in my 20 years as a psychotherapist. I specialize in the treatment of alcoholism/addictions and related issues. My most recent referral involved a very complicated, multi-generational family and an adolescent in dire need of treatment. Dr. Stanger pulled the [...]
    - Ali McCreery, LCSW, San Diego and Encinitas, CA
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  • Louise has been extremely helpful in supporting my family through a very difficult substance abuse incident. Her advice and experience gave a lot of comfort and helped us get help for the not only the abuser but also the victim, who was in denial about the issue and was struggling to know what to do [...]
    - Bella H, Northern California
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  • Louise facilitated the intervention we did on our 20-year-old daughter and Louise was not only extremely professional and effective, the way in which she coached and encouraged our daughter was remarkable. During the intervention, Louise kneeled behind our daughter and softly spoke into her ear. I remember seeing our daughter’s shoulders soften while she did [...]
    - Paige R. San Diego, CA
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  • Dr. Stanger was instrumental in helping members of our family transition through an extremely difficult time in our lives. We moved from an extremely fractious situation to one of health and vibrancy. She is a remarkable professional with great skills and personal insight.
    - Ilene S. Pittsburgh, Penna
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  • I’m grateful that I met Dr. Stanger during her Professional In Residence program at the Betty Ford Center several years ago. 
I find her to be passionate about the work she does in so many areas, including with families in crisis. She has a gift for finding the treatment modality that is most effective for [...]
    - Eloise Gene-Black CADC ll, Betty Ford Center, Business Development Associate
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