Jude Treder-Wolff, LCSW, RMT, CGP is a Licensed Certified Social Worker, Registered Music Therapist, and Certified Group Psychotherapist in full-time private practice providing individual and group psychotherapy and addiction treatment, and President of Lifestage, Inc. in Smithtown, NY, a company providing training seminars for professional and personal growth, health education, and stress-resilience. She was Director of Clinical Services at the YMCA Family Services, a community-based agency providing addiction prevention and treatment services from 1988-1990. She has designed and implemented training seminars for mental health agencies - including Pederson-Krag, Options for Community Living, YMCA Family Services, Suffolk County Dept. of Mental Health, among others - and organizations such as the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Therapeutic Recreation Association, National Association of Social Workers, American Music Therapy Association, and American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, as well as courses for the State University at Buffalo Summer Institute Continuing Education Courses for addiction treatment professionals. She has been published in The International Journal of Arts and Psychotherapy Special Issue on Addiction and Special Issue on HIV/AIDS, Music Therapy Perspectives, Clinical Social Work, and Recovery Press and has been interviewed for articles about creativity and stress-resilience that appeared in New York Newsday, Woman's Day, and The Three Village Times. She served as editor of The Psychodrama Network News, the official newsletter of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama from 2001-2007, and currently writes an e-newsletter titled Lives In Progress.
Nicholas Wolff, LCSW, BCD, TEP, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Board Certified Diplomate, and Trainer, Educator and Practitioner of Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy in full-time private practice, providing individual, group, family and marital therapy. He has conducted training in action methods and group psychotherapy for mental health, education, law enforcement, and business professionals for over 35 years, and currently trains addiction counselors, psychotherapists, mental health counselors and educators in experiential methods and group process at Lifestage, Inc. His professional training seminars have covered a full range of social issues, including small and large group process, social and gender roles in cultural context, family therapy, addiction, racism and trauma. He serves on the Suffolk County Trauma Response Team since 1990, and was the Senior Debriefer when the Response Team worked with survivors of the attack on the World Trade Center, and Senior Counselor in assisting the caregivers involved with survivors and rescue workers. He served as President of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama from 2005-2007 after 10 years on the Executive Council.
Deborah Zelizer, LCSW is program director of the Health Science major in the School of Health Technology and Management at Stony Brook University. Prior to her University appointment, she worked in the field of HIV/AIDS and public health education for fifteen years, at the AIDS Inpatient Treatment Center at Stony Brook University Medical Center where she provided psychosocial support as well as extensive training to the staff regarding behavioral and social aspects of health, and as senior educator for the New York State Department of Health, where she provided training to health and human service providers throughout the Long Island region and was instrumental in curriculum development. She has presented nationally and internationally on workshops regarding diversity, addiction treatment, stress management, and death and dying.
Richard Buckman, LCSW/R CASAC CET II CEAP Is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Employee Assistance Professional, Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor, and Level II Experiential Therapist. He is formerly a consulting therapist with the internationally renown Onsite Training & Consulting, and at present the Clinical Supervisor of the New York City Fire Dept. Counseling Services Unit, responsible for all addiction related services.
He maintains a private practice in Smithtown NY, is an EMDR practitioner specializing in addictions, codependency, family of origin issues and grief and trauma resolution. Since 1989 he has provided trainings for social workers, addiction professionals, school districts, hospitals and corporations in the areas of peer mediation, conflict resolution, anger management, human relations, communication, team building, meditation, relaxation, addiction & recovery.
An original member of the Long Island Recovery Association (2000), a grassroots organization advocating or the rights and needs of individuals in recovery from or seeking help for chemical dependency, he was LIRA President from 2003-2007. In 2005 he received the Advocate of the Year Award from the Association of Addiction Professionals of New York State (AAPNY) and was recently elected the first ever President of Friends of Recovery New York (FOR-NY) a statewide advocacy group.