BIOGRAPHY

MAx Fabry

MAx Fabry BA, CADCII

MAx Fabry, BA, CADCII, is a graduate of the University of Oregon, and is certified by the State of Oregon as an advanced Addiction Counselor. She melds ten years of qualitative research with counseling skills, and an abundance of life experiences, to offer a unique selection of personal growth services. MAx has a private practice in Eugene, Oregon, where she offers individual addiction counseling insuring total confidentiality for her clients. Her approach for treating addiction is individual depending on what the core issues of the client are, and the result of an ASAM assessment to help identify the degree of addiction. MAx's approach is holistic, believing that the mind, body, and spirit need to align in order for healing to begin. Methods used include cognitive behavioral modification to recognize and correct thinking and behavioral errors, and rational behavioral emotive therapy focused on managing day-to-day stress. MAx also believes that integrated services are needed to form a 'team' concept to support the client; therefore, she engages primary care physicians, pharmacists, psychiatrists, etc, to coordinate client planning and services.


Her client base includes executives and professionals such as doctors, attorneys, judges, CEOs, actors, and political figures, with addiction problems that cannot afford to have their identity breached. In addition, utilizing the knowledge she gained while working on a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) research project for the State of Oregon, and combining knowledge of addiction, MAx offers hope for survivors of TBI who also suffer from any form of addiction. MAx is also sought after for her work as a Transition Coach helping people, in various stages of life's transitions (retirement, recovery, divorce, empty nesters, career change, etc), to understand what they are experiencing and to gain tools to help them move on. Her successful 'Moving-On' workshop usually has a waiting list when presented. This workshop has recently been translated to a 'Migrations' workshop aimed at adolescents preparing to transition from high school into 'real life'.

MAx is a mother of a married daughter with four sons. While her roots are in the Pennsylvania/New Jersey part of the United States, she has spent the majority of her life traveling around the United States and living wherever she found it comfortable; she settled in Oregon in the early 1980's, and made Lane County, Oregon, her home. She recently 'retired' from volunteering with the American Red Cross after many decades of service. Assignments with the Red Cross included: induction of Viet Nam refugees through Camp Pendleton in the '70's, 9-11 World Trade Center as a Family Services volunteer, 2001, and Katrina Hurricanes in 2006, personally training over 1000 Disaster Services volunteers. She was also active with the March of Dimes, received the 1992 University of Oregon Dean Award for Distinguished Service for her work with HIV/AIDS education and counseling on campus, 1992 Member of Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociology Honor Society while attending University of Oregon, she continues to be an active member of International Toastmasters attaining an Advanced Toastmaster Gold status.

While attempting to expand her private practice to on-line counseling, she discovered that it was not safe for her to do that---SO, she founded a 21st century paradigm business: www.onlinewellnessassociation.com. The goal of this business is to create a safe platform for all wellness practitioners to be able to offer their services. MAx has been experimenting with on-line counseling for three years and believes that this is the direction counseling is going. Her private practice, online businesses, and her family keep her life abundantly full. MAx believes that she is where she needs to be, doing what she is supposed to be doing, and reaps benefits from those she helps change their lifestyles to positive, healthy, and centered.

CREDENTIALS

Certification for Alcohol and Drug Counseling, II, State of Oregon
Requires 20 Continuing Education Units per year.

University of Oregon, IS:IP Masters Program: Sociology, History, Counseling Psychology

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, 1992, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon,

Associate Arts Degree, Lane Community College, 1990, Eugene, Oregon

Penn State University, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, Registered Nursing Program, Citizens General Hospital School of Nursing 1969-1971

SKILLS:

Effective counseling techniques in the areas of substance abuse, transition coaching, and spiritual guidance.

Capable of assessing substance abuse levels based on ASAM criteria.

Skilled in connecting and utilizing resources to enhance programs.

Proficient in organizing projects including: securing funding, recruiting, generating interest and enthusiasm, publicity, training, and developing and presenting workshops.

Excellent qualitative research abilities including: astute observation skills, interviewing techniques, and accurate recording of data, adept at compiling and maintaining data and statistics.

GENERAL APPLIED PERFORMANCE SKILLS:

Created Online Wellness Association, 2004, building a safe platform for wellness practitioners to offer online services

  • Created Lifestyle Changes, a private practice for addiction therapy, mental health counseling, transition coaching, and spiritual guidance, 2003
  • Trained over 1000 volunteers for Red Cross during Katrina Hurricane, 2005
  • Participated during 9-11 as Red Cross Family Services Volunteer
  • Received July, 2001, ACES Professional Excellence Award
  • Created "Eugene Energy", local television show
  • Developed a data base for Women's Business Network, Eugene, Oregon
  • Facilitated a forum for Democratic Process, University of Oregon, PPP Dept, for City of Eugene, Eugene Decisions
  • Facilitated three Community New Year's Eve events
  • Participated as a Steering Committee Member to organize First Night Eugene Celebration
  • Developed an innovative data collection firm
  • Received 1992 University of Oregon Dean's Award for Community Service
  • Organized a new ASUO recognized organization for Returning Students Association, 1991, University of Oregon
  • Organized and presented Speakers Event for Sociology Peer Advising, "Oregon Corrections: Then, Now, In the Future"

    • COUNSELING/RESEARCH/PROJECT PARTICIPATION

    Private Practice since 2003: Addiction Counselor, Transition Coach, Spiritual Guidance

  • Serenity Lane Treatment Center, Eugene, Oregon, Continuing Care Counselor for three years.
  • ACES/Emergence Counseling Center, Substance Abuse, Level II, Counselor/Intake Counselor for three years
  • Eugene Energy, TV Pilot for Community TV using magazine format. Developed format, researched segments, logged tapes, archived materials, coordinated individual shoots, wrote funding grants
  • Resist Punk Movement, Eugene, Oregon. Client: Private Writer. Research Support Services: observer, interviewer, 'punk' focus group, data coordination.
  • Observer for Student Organizational Systems, Teaching Research, Eugene, Oregon
  • TORUS, University of Puget Sound, coordinator, trainer, interviewer
  • NSF/ISC, National Science Foundation: trainer, observer, videographer, interviewer
  • Effects of Student Selection of Tasks and Problem Behavior during Instruction for Student's with Severe Disability, University of Oregon: videographer, interviewer, coder, office coordinator
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Project, OR Dept of Higher Education: ethnographic field participant/observer
  • Assistive Technology Project, University of Oregon Special Education: observer/participant, ethnographic coder, information processor
  • Oregon Social Learning Center, US Dept of Health and Education: structured interviewer
  • Littletown Urbanization Longitudinal Study: researcher ethnographic field observer, data researcher, data organization and analysis

    • PUBLICATIONS

    "Students with Acquired Brain Injury: The School's Response"; Ann Glang, George H.S. Singer, and Bonnie Todis; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co, 1997; Chapter Two: Family-School-Child: A qualitative Study of the School Experiences of Students with ABI."

    UNPUBLISHED

  • Cultural Changes of a Sicilian-American Family from 1897-1997. Masters Project
  • Changing Seasons. A children's play for grades k-5
  • Thorney and Wissey. A children's book about change.

    • SERVICES AND FEES

    One Hour Counseling/Coaching Session................................$80

    ASAM assessment.................................................................$275

    Moving-On Workshop, 18 hour presentation...Call for fee information

    CONTACT INFORMATION

    MAx Fabry, BA, CADCII
    m.fabry-at-comcast.net