SAFEHOUSE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Instructor
- Certified Trainer in Meditation and Stress Management
Bruce Gordon is an accredited instructor in state-of-the-art modalities for healing and detox and has taught stress reduction, yogic breathing and meditation to various wheelchair communities, addicts, inmates of Bangkok's Bang Kwang prison, and many other groups and individuals around the world.
Bruce is a multi-faceted personal development and self-improvement expert with over 30 years' experience enabling people from all walks of life to realise their highest potential. He is a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Hypnotherapy, and a certified trainer in Emotional Freedom Technique and Behavioural Kinesiology.
Bruce Gordon has been mentored by and has worked with some of the top names in advancing human potential, including Vipassana Meditation Master S.N. Goenka, and AOL founder and international humanitarian, Sri Sri Ravi Shanker.
Job Titles:
- Psychiatrist & Detox Specialist
Job Titles:
- Consultant Mental Health Counsellor & Aftercare
- Mental Health Counsellor and South Thailand Aftercare Facilitator
Gerrie is originally from the State of Florida, by whom he is licensed as a Mental Health Counsellor (No. 11240). In 2013, Gerrie established Phuket Mental Health Counselling, in the province of Phuket, Thailand, to provide western-oriented mental health counselling services to the regions expat community. In the past three years, Gerrie has provided counselling services to clients from 27 different countries and range in age from 6 to 75 years old. Gerrie also works with the international schools in Phuket providing in-school counselling for students who require services beyond the scope of the school counsellor.
In Orlando Florida, Gerrie Kalaidjian was a counsellor for The Center for Drug-Free Living, a federal/state and locally funded organization that provided a wide array of counselling services to the Orlando/Orange County community. The focus of much of the counselling, especially in the schools, was "prevention" working with the schools in identifying at-risk students and providing counselling to those students and to their parents. He also was a counsellor/facilitator for "Back on Track" a group counselling program that provided a five-week drug/alcohol psychological/education program for students aged 12-18 who had been caught on school grounds using or in possession of substances. This program provided an honest assessment of the student's use, the myths and facts of drug use related to physical and mental health, and a plan for stop using.
Gerrie Kalaidjian gained his MA in Mental Health Counselling at the prestigious Rollins College Florida, and his MBA at Boston University.
In working with adults and youths for the past 13 years, Gerrie has learned that drug and alcohol-related problems are often accompanied by untreated mental health issues. He has worked to help clients who have established goals of abstinence to understand the underlying reasons that may have contributed to their original decision to experiment with substances. Developing this understanding is a crucial component to the client being able to move forward and stick to their goals.
Gerrie says: ‘I am looking forward to the opportunity to work with staff and clients at SafeHouse as a counsellor and Thailand aftercare facilitator. I see my primary role as helping clients, both during and after treatment, by initially developing a trusting counselling relationship. The emphasis will be on openness and honesty, and the uniqueness of each client and their personal experiences. Then, I work with the client to identify specific short and long term goals and devise a plan to implement. Together we also identify specific potential stumbling blocks, especially personal stressors that may tempt the client to return to using. To deal with these contingencies, we develop an action plan, giving the client the tools necessary to remain substance-free with the ability to live a productive life'
SafeHouse is very excited to welcome Gerrie Kalaidjian to the team. His wide experience and eclectic skills ensure our Treatment and Aftercare programs can deliver the necessary wisdom to help clients with the most diverse associated issues.
Job Titles:
- Addiction Consultant Nurse
Job Titles:
- Consultant Psychotherapist, Counsellor & UK Aftercare
- Psychotherapist and Counsellor, UK Aftercare Consultant
After completing a four-year term of study, training and foundation course at Hertfordshire University, Stephanie gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling, through a ‘British Association For Counselling and Psychotherapy' (BACP) Accredited Course. Other qualifications include a Diploma in Teaching Adults and Children with Learning Difficulties. SafeHouse Rehab Center Thailand is delighted to have appointed Stephanie to this important role, for which all her varied skills and experience will be highly beneficial.
Working within the BACP ethical framework, Stephanie has spent 10 years working with adolescents, individuals and couples. She has worked in Private Practice and in close professional association with General Practice Doctor Surgeries, schools and charities.
Stephanie says: "I believe there are many issues in life that can take us to such difficult emotional places that our lives spiral out of control. For those susceptible to addictive behaviours, substance abuse can be a temporary coping mechanism. But this itself soon becomes the overriding symptom of the individual's issues, while perpetuating and magnifying the problems rather than addressing them. Typically addiction and alcoholism tend to be the result of a combination of predisposition thereto, together with a range of physical, emotional and circumstantial factors. These have to be addressed as part of a wide-ranging treatment program that deals with the present and plans for the future, just as much as delving into the past."
Job Titles:
- Member of the Australian Counselling Association
- Senior Consultant Counsellor & Australia Aftercare
- Senior Counsellor and Australia Aftercare Facilitator
- Specialist
Warren Holland is a professionally trained addictions specialist, who has spent more than 22 years working with clients in the Alcohol and Drug treatment sector. His places of learning include Ballarat University, The Bouverie Centre at Latrobe University, The Department of Human Services, the LLN unit at Federation University, and AGB Training Group
Working with children, adults, families and teams, Warren has provided treatment for the recovery from, and reduction of issues associated with substance use. Warren is a registered private counsellor experienced not only in addictions, but also in relationships, anxiety, depression, and internet/media related dependency.
Warren's journey began with his own search for recovery from drugs and alcohol abuse. He has worked extensively in the field in a variety of roles, including casework, residential withdrawal & detoxification, pharmacotherapies, therapeutic rehabilitation, criminal diversion programs and private counselling for addictions. In such a wide and varied career, he has embraced many philosophies, from maintenance and harm minimisation to total abstinence 12 step recovery, and everything in between.
Warren Holland is a Member of the Australian Counselling Association (MACA) and the Association of Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS)