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Spiritual Development Work
Holistic Psychotherapy
Wellness Counseling
Addiction Recovery
Creative Process
Healing Trauma
LGBT Concerns
Relationship Concerns
Depression, Grief, and Loss
Clinical Supervision & Training
Personal & Professional Coaching


Patricia A. Burke, MSW, LCSW, BCD is a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, a Certified Clinical Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Social Worker and a Certified Clinical Supervisor with over thirty years of experience. Author of Breathe Deeply! Healing Stories for the Soul, She is the co-founder of Reshaping the World, LLC She maintains a private clinical and consultation practice in Yarmouth, Maine.

"When we are fully present to ourselves the light of who we are shines through and like a slow deep breath, fills the world with love." --Patricia Burke


Holistic Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development Services
Patricia has merged a variety of psychological, spiritual and creative arts into a process of psychological and spiritual awakening that helps people re-discover meanings and purposes in life, build mutually empowering relationships, enhance creativity, expand awareness, and embrace the deep stillness of being from within which all experience arises. She has been deeply engaged in her own inner work for over twenty five years and calls upon her extensive training in spiritual and transformational practices to guide her work with others.

Patricia offers individual, group and couples consultation. Her interests and practice focus include creative process, addictions recovery, relationship concerns, women's issues, spirituality, healing trauma, grief and loss, and sexual orientation issues. Go to Services for more details.

Training and Consultation
In over thirty years of post graduate work, Patricia has trained hundreds of psychotherapists, social workers, addiction counselors and allied healthcare practitioners in a respectful, person-centered approach to helping people. Her training areas of specialty include Motivational Interviewing in health care and addictions treatment, trauma recovery, spiritually sensitive clinical practice, person-centered psychotherapy, and transpersonal social work. In-person, phone and Video Conferencing available. Go to Services for more details.

UPDATES

Patricia has co-authored a chapter titled Addiction and Psychological Trauma: Implications for Counseling Strategies. In Trauma Counseling: Theories and Interventions published by Springer.

Patricia has authored or co-authored three chapters of a book edited by Bruce Carruth and published by Haworth Press: Psychological Truama and Addiction Treatment.

Her contributions include:

    Psychological Trauma and Addiction Treatment
    Enhancing Hope and Resilience Through a Spiritually Sensitive Focus in the Treatment of Trauma and Addiction
    Counselor Self-Care in Work with Traumatized, Addicted People
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Patricia is now licensed by the State of Maine Substance Abuse Licensing Board as a Certified Clinical Supervisor and has met the qualifications for membership in MINT: Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers

Read her article, Circle of Meaning: A Narrative Tool for Exploring the Multi-Dimentional Nature of Spirituality, which was recently published in Counselor: The Magazine for Addiction Professionals. .

Professional Credentials

Patricia is a Board Certified Diplomat in Clinical Social Work, a Certified Clinical Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Social Worker and a Certified Clinical Supervisor with over thirty years of clinical and teaching experience. Patricia is currently on the faculty of Union Institute & University undergraduate program in the Psychology & Human Development Concentration and the Addiction Studies Specialty. Patricia was on the faculty of the Rutgers Summer School of Alcohol and Drug Studies from 1989-2010. She has been an instructor for the Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England at the Brown University Center of Alcohol Studies since 1999 and a trainer for the Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine since 2006. She has also been on the faculty of the New England Institute of Addiction Studies, the University of New England School of Social Work, University of Southern Maine, and Southern Maine Community College.

Her most recent publications include one chapter in Trauma Counseling: Theories and Interventions published by Springer. Other recent publications include three chapters in Psychological Trauma and Addiction Treatment (Haworth Press, 2006) titled "Psychological Trauma and Addiction Treatment," "Enhancing Hope and Resilience Through a Spiritually Sensitive Focus in the Treatment of Trauma and Addiction," and "Clinician Self-Care." She was also on the Expert Advisory Board of Managing Depressive Symptoms in Substance Abuse Clients During Early Recovery, Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series 48 (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2008). Patricia is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and maintains a private clinical and consultation practice in Yarmouth, Maine.

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