Patricia A. Burke, MSW: Holistic Psychotherapy, Soul Work, Breathwork, Addictions Treatment, Training
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Patricia A. Burke, MSW


Spiritual Development Work
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Creative Process
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Patricia A. Burke, MSW, LCSW, BCD is a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work and a Certified Clinical Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Social Worker with over twenty five years of experience. Author of Breathe Deeply! Healing Stories for the Soul, She is the co-founder of the Beyond Mind Healing Center and Reshaping the World, LLC She maintains a private clinical and consultation practice in West Baldwin and 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


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 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, personal intensives and workshops. 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 twenty five years of post graduate work, Patricia has trained hundreds of psychotherapists, social workers, and addiction counselors in the art of psychotherapy. 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 online consultation available. Go to Services for more details.

UPDATES

Patricia has authored or co-authored three chapters of a new 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
Click on this link for more information and/or to order.

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 Diplomate in Clinical Social Work and a Certified Clinical Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Social Worker. She has been on the faculty of the Rutgers University Summer School of Alcohol and Drug Studies since 1989. She is currently on the faculty of the Vermont Academic Center of Union Institute & University undergradute program in the Psychology and Religion, Spirituality, and Holistic Studies concentrations, the Brown University Center of Alcohol Studies: Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England and the New England Institute of Addiction Studies. She has also taught for the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine, the Education and Human Services Department of the Southern Maine Community College, the North Carolina Summer School of Alcohol and Drug Studies, and the Social Work Schools of the University of New England, University of Southern Maine, and Rutgers University. Patricia is the former Clinical Director of the Smith House Addictions Treatment Program. She is a member of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, the Co-Ocurring Collaborative Serving Maine, the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, and the New York Region Pathwork.

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Patricia A. Burke, MSW
997 Pequawket Trail West Baldwin, ME 04091 USA
207-625-7012

pab@patriciaburke.com

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