Experienced Counselors

Under the direction of Marie Apke, Senior Vice_President of Clinical Services, BDA counselors provide telephone and face_to_face assessment, counseling, referral, follow-up and case-management, as well as crisis intervention, critical incident debriefing, and training and education services. Both ‘in-house’ counselors, and clinical associates, who are members of BDA’s National Provider Network, have been selected because of their clinical expertise and experience in the following areas:
•Alcohol & Drug Problems •Psychiatric/Mental Health (including marital problems, depression, anxiety, stress, and other personal problems which effects one’s ability to cope.) •Drug/Alcohol Abuse •Drug/Alcohol Testing Programs •Addictive Illness •Dual-Diagnosis •Problem & Compulsive Gambling • Family Systems • Child & Elder Care • Eating Disorders • Legal & Financial Problems • Workplace Government Regulation (such as the U.S. Department of Transportation-required Substance Abuse Professional Evaluations) • Federal Drug Free Workplace Act • Fitness-for-Duty-Policies	•Workplace Training & Education • Health Promotion & Wellness • Psychological Aspects of Illness/Injury • Grief Intervention • Critical Incident & Trauma Debriefing • Violence in the Workplace • Workplace Policy Development • Change Management • Labor/Management Relations • Mediation & Expert Testimony • Reorganization & Downsizing Counseling • Workplace Diversity • Emergency Response & Safe Workplace Policies • Conflict Resolution • Knowledge of Benefits including Managed Care • Organization Systems & Dynamics • Services for the Deaf Hearing & Speech Impaired • Bilingual Services for Employees & Their Families
All BDA counselors are experienced professionals with an average of twelve years of experience in their areas of expertise. All counselors possess advanced degrees in psychology, social work, rehabilitation counseling, psychiatry, medicine, nursing and/or law; all are licensed or certified in their fields of expertise; and, all are highly experienced counselors. BDA’s professional staff have extensive experience in the application of principles to promote change for individuals with unsuccessful behavior problems, addictions, and person problems requiring outside assistance. Counselors are truly responsive to workforce and social changes, ethnicity, gender and cultural concerns, as well as bilingual needs. Counselors themselves are from diverse backgrounds which bring a broad spectrum of experience. In addition to providing direct services to employees and family members, BDA ‘in-house’ counselors provide case management services for the entire BDA Employee Assistance Program Network.

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