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Sharon
Blacklidge began her experience in the Healthcare
Field in 1968,as a Social Worker in Alameda County,
California working as a Caseworker for Aid to Families
with Dependent Children. She later went on to volunteer
as a Crisis Counselor for Rape Victims and Battered
Women in Boulder, Colorado.
Sharon's own personal experience in addiction, felt
that she had the compassion and understanding to
help others suffering from this disease.She went
back to school and became Certified as a Chemical
Dependency Counselor, and worked for two years in
several Upscale Treatment Centers. When starting
her career as an Interventionist, she knew it was
the answer to all her years of training and experience
to give back to the world.
Sharon
is able to break through the many layers of denial
and delusion in her Interventions, and has the ability
to read people and let them know they are safe,
understood and very much loved. She is also able
to build a bond of trust in order to make this happen.
One
of Sharon's Professional Goals is to develop a supportive
Counseling Service for the addict's family, as well
as the addict. She continues an ongoing relationship
with Family Members long after the Intervention,
so they are well assured that can always depend
on her.
The
family issues Sharon has facilitated include substance
and emotional addictions, but also problems with
family violence, depression, grief, severe acting
out among teens, eating disorders,
and suicide attempts.
Sharon has completed Interventions throughout the
country and worked closely with Treatment Centers
throughout the country. She has found that establishing
trust and safety with the client is the first goal
of healing, because personal change can’t happen
without trust and safety. Intervention work appeals
to Sharon because it is the most powerful way of
enabling a family to help an addict help himself
or herself.
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