Biography

Adam O’Brien, PhD., LMHC, CASAC holds a PhD in Addiction Studies and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor in New York State. He is located in Chatham (Albany/Hudson area) where he maintains a private practice and now the Wounded Healers Institute. He has experience working with addictions, domestic violence, victims of crime, first responders, veterans, children, adolescents, and adults. Adam has regularly been doing trauma resolution “Intensives” sessions and is an excellent resource on this EMDR Therapy service. He has agency, EAP, intensive outpatient, community-based settings, and residential experience. He specializes in addiction (chemical and behavioral), dissociation, complex trauma, preverbal, intergenerational, historical, medical, spiritual abuse, psychedelic integration, and harm reduction. He also has excellent experience with 12-steps, recovery, integrative medicine, bulk flash, addressing toxic shame, loss, anger, and adoption. He is well-versed in Ego State Therapy, Psychedelic Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Progressive Counting (PC), Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Certified Brainspotting (BSP) Therapist and Approved Brainspotting Consultant, Neurofeedback, and is a Certified Expressive Arts Therapist.