Chemical Dependency Studies

Jeannie Anderson has worked in the addiction and recovery field since 1988. She has worked in residential, inpatient, outpatient, and dual diagnosis settings. Anderson is a counselor, a teacher, a trainer, an Interventionist, and a Certified Relapse Prevention Specialist. She currently works as a counselor for CRC Health Services, one of the largest addiction treatment providers in the country. She was an addictions counselor at Good Samaritan Hospital's Behavioral Health Outpatient Department and the Continuing Care Coordinator at Bayside Marin in San Rafael. 

In addition to substance abuse, she specializes in working with individuals with eating disorders and sexual addiction. Anderson maintains a private counseling, intervention and consulting practice in Los Gatos, CA and works as a consultant/counselor for the online treatment program Lion Rock Recovery. She is dynamic, inspirational, and highly motivational.

Anderson teaches Relapse Prevention and Sexuality and Addiction, Counselor Burnout, Case Management, and CD and the family.

Pete Caldwell has been teaching the Basic Counseling I and II core curriculum classes since 1989.  A Bay Area native, Caldwell received his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and his Masters in Counseling Psychology from CSUEB and has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at numerous institutions throughout northern California.  He has been licensed as an MFT for the past 20 years providing therapeutic services to the types of clients his students plan to serve.  He is also the executive director of We Care Services for Children; an East Bay non-profit addressing the mental health and developmental needs of at-risk children.

Mary Crocker Cook is a 25 year veteran in the addiction and recovery field. She developed and coordinates the San Jose City College ADS Program, has served as Clinical Director in multiple treatment facilities, and has owned her own facility. She administers the on-line training site, www.counselorceu.org and has recently opened a classroom for counselors to provide continuing education, Connections Continuing Education Institute, www.cceui.com.

Mary has authored several texts used in addiction education. These include Awakening Hope. A Development. Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codependency; Afraid to Let Go. For Parent of Adult Addicts and Alcoholics; Codependency and Men; and her new novel, Welcome to My World. A week in the life of a substance abuse counselor.

Ben Eiland has been in the Chemical Dependency Treatment and Behavioral Health field for over 39 years.

He currently is the Director of Integrated Healing at Alta Mira Recovery Programs and previously the Clinical Director in Sausalito, CA.

He was the Director of Substance Abuse Treatment Services for the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic.
He is the founder and former Co-Director of Integrated Counseling and Consulting Services specializing in domestic violence and substance abuse problems. Eiland has previously held positions as the director of inpatient and outpatient chemical dependency treatment programs that serve both adults and adolescents.

Eiland has been a trainer and consultant in such areas as chemical dependency treatment, co-occurring disorders treatment, domestic and workplace violence, drugs in the workplace, conflict resolution/team building, board development, and cultural/gender diversity.

He has provided training and consulting for such diverse organizations as the American Indian Training Institute, California Rural Indian Health Board, Independent Adoption Center, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Maui Social Services, Hayward Unified School District, the San Francisco Chronicle, the California Departments of Probation and Parole, and the San Francisco Bar Association.

Eiland has taught at a variety of Educational Institutions and is currently an Adjunct Faculty College of San Mateo since 1999. He has also taught at J.F.K. University and U.C. Berkeley Extension addiction certificate program.

Eiland is a founding member of the California Association of Alcohol/Drug Educators (CAADE) and is their past president. He is currently on the California State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs “Continuum of Services System Re-engineering Task Force”. In addition, he served on the National Recovery Month Partnership Committee in Washington DC, sponsored by SAMHSA.

He has held the position of Vice President for the Cross Roads Chapter of E.AP.A. He has also served on the Board of the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors. He was appointed to the Aging Constituent Committee Directors Advisory Council California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (2003-2008) , and is the past president of the California Association for Alcohol/Drug Educators (CAADE).

Adriana Popescu is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience in the mental health field. She received her MA and Ph.D. from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, a program that takes a holistic approach to the training of psychotherapists, teaching them how to help clients self-actualize and reach their highest human potential. Dr. Popescu is also a certified hypnotherapist, Access Consciousness Facilitator, and Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) Practitioner, having discovered that Energy Psychology provides incredibly powerful tools to identify and eliminate the deep-rooted causes of suffering and distress. She developed her specialty in treating addictions and co-occurring disorders over fourteen years at Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County, where she managed the Adult Substance Abuse Program, as Director of Outpatient Services at Marin Services for Women, and Director of Outpatient Services at Alta Mira Recovery Programs. Dr. Popescu is currently in private practice and travels around the world coaching and facilitating classes.

Dee-Dee Stout, MA, CADC-II brings nearly 30 years of experience in behavior change/addictive behaviors to her faculty positions at CSU Monterey Bay and in her return to Cal State East Bay. Stout maintains a busy practice (Dee-Dee Stout Consulting) consulting, counseling, and coaching consumers and agencies especially in the areas of trauma, alternative/complementary practices, and reducing the harmful effects of behaviors including responsible drinking (see http://rethinkingdrinking.niaaa.nih.gov). She is certified in iRest and Energy Tapping and has extensive training/expertise in Motivational Interviewing (member of MINT), CRAFT, Harm Reduction, Trauma-Informed work, LGBTQI-issues, Relapse Prevention, and more. Stout is known for her wicked sense of humor and her ability to make complex theories accessible to all.

An Oakland, CA native, Ebony Williams has worked extensively with LGBTQQIAA communities, people of color, individuals of low socioeconomic status, at-risk youth, and high-risk sexual offenders. She has a wide range of experiences, including working for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation treating incarcerated male youth offenders. She has also worked internationally in New Zealand as the sole psychologist of a 21-bed inpatient unit where she incorporated NZ Maori practices and culture into the individual behavioral treatment plans of clients who were dually-diagnosed.

Roland Williams is an interventionist, author, trainer, counselor, and consultant specializing in addiction-related issues. He is president and founder of Free Life Enterprises, providing counseling, intervention, and consulting services. He is director of Clinical Operations at DARA Thailand and clinical director at Lionrock Recovery, an online intensive outpatient program. He is a co-founder and former clinical director of Alta Mira Recovery Programs, and Bayside Marin, located in Marin County, CA. He is also a former director of Behavioral Health Services at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, CA.

As president and founder of VIP Recovery Coaching, Williams has worked all over the world providing individualized treatment and program development consultation. He consulted with the first abstinence based treatment center in Amsterdam, Holland. He has worked in Switzerland, Holland, Thailand, Costa Rica, France, Dominican Republic, and Italy, as well as nationwide in the US.

Williams sat on the oral examination board of CAADAC, (California Association of Alcohol and Drug Counselors), and is a member of the NAADAC Trainers Academy, providing technical assistance and training nationwide.

He has published three books: Relapse Prevention Counseling for African Americans and Relapse Warning Signs for African Americans (with Terence T. Gorski), as well as the Relapse Prevention Workbook for African Americans.