William Feuerborn, DSW, LCSW is a psychotherapist specializing in helping adults overcome childhood trauma and compulsive sexual behavior. He is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist and Supervisor (CSAT-S) and a member of the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) since 2005. He utilizes a variety of trauma-focused therapies including EMDR, Brainspotting, and Pia Mellody’s Post Induction Therapy in order to help clients realize their inherent human worth and live their lives to the fullest.
Dr. Feuerborn was a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California for 9 years where he contributed to curriculum development and taught a variety of classes, including the course LGBTQ+ Psychosocial Political Issues. His most recent publication includes several chapters on sexual health in the book entitled “LGBTQI Workbook for CBT”. He holds both Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Social Work.

Dr. Feuerborn began his career as a Social Work Case Manager helping clients living with HIV/AIDS. He also started an agency devoted to helping people of all sexualities recover from the pain and hurt of sex addiction. Throughout his career, Dr. Feuerborn has been dedicated to inclusiveness and helping all members of LGBTQ+ community experience full and rewarding lives and relationships.

Mellissa is a trauma focused substance abuse counselor who is currently working in an acute treatment setting in West Hollywood, CA. She is responsible for facilitating a treatment track specific to the needs of those in the LGBTQIA+ community. Mellissa utilizes an experiential based, sex positive, gay affirmative approach to recovery from ChemSex addiction. Mellissa is also member of several community outreach programs serving the LGBTQIA+ population in the greater Los Angeles area.

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As it's said, the body keeps the score (van der Kolk). In my work with you we'll create a safe container to settle right into the felt sense of your hurt, and what healing might be like.
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, Somatic Experiential Therapies Practitioner, Yoga and Breathwork Practitioner, Acudetox Specialist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, and Certified Post Induction Therapist. I work in the LGBTQ+ community. I work with addicts and recovering people, and the partners and families the addiction has impacted. I work with those trying to break free of exploitation and traumatic bonding. I work with resilience and radiance you may not know is within you. I work with survivors, and I treat the four letter word that you may be suffering from in some way - hurt.

Currently working with The Meadows treatment programs in Arizona, I have served as Clinical Director, Director of Family Services, as well as in experiential therapy roles in a variety of program settings. I also hold a background in communication and business. With a multi-modality approach, I include somatic experiencing, psychodrama, post induction therapy, internal family systems work and more to support healing.

Kristina Padilla is a leader with the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP), where she serves as the Director of Education overseeing CCAPP’s Education Department. She also is Director of Business Development for the organization wherein she travels throughout California and the nation bringing addiction focused businesses together to promote the profession, increase access to services and improve the quality of AOD service provision through education, business development, and investment in quality programming. Mx. Padilla led California’s innovative criminal justice program serving as the Offender Mentor Certification Program Director for three years where she managed 12 in-prison programs for training counselors. She worked closely with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) in California prisons for the duration of the contract bringing innovation and growth to the state’s in custody treatment programming. Mx. Padilla also was the previous Program Director/Adjunct Faculty of the Peer Support training and Placement Program which trained peers in Recovery/mental health to become certified and how to work with other peers in recovery such as, self-direction, advocacy, ethics, person centered approach, personalization, empowerment, strength base, goal setting, respect, cultural sensitivity and competency, responsibility, hope and at the very core of the program.

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.