The Freedom Institute Blog

Kaitlyn Moore Kaitlyn Moore

Meet and Learn: Harm Reduction and Families

On Thursday, September 26, 2024, Andrew Tatarsky hosted the fourth installment of our Meet and Learn series. This webinar, which focused on Harm Reduction and Families, was facilitated by Salah Bustami, LMHC, Genoveva Garcia, LCSW, and Tamara Oyola-Santiago, MA, MPH, MCHES.


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Kaitlyn Moore Kaitlyn Moore

Meet and Learn: Harm Reduction and Groups

On Thursday, July 18th, Andrew Tatarsky hosted the second installment of our Meet and Learn series. This webinar, which focused on Harm Reduction and Groups, was facilitated by Dr. Adam Frankel.


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Kaitlyn Moore Kaitlyn Moore

Mixed Goals IOP — Meet the Team!

The Mixed Goals IOP is led by highly experienced and deeply committed Freedom Institute clinicians, each leading a specific aspect of the program.

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A Celebration of Partnership, Progress, Friends, and Colleagues

On May 16th, Freedom Institute opened our doors to celebrate a myriad of successes, starting with: our partnership with Silver Hill Hospital; the introduction of Andrew Tatarsky, PhD as Director of Clinical Programming; and the expansion of Freedom Institute programming to embrace the harm reduction model, while remaining strong in our abstinence-based programs.

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Nancy Rowe Nancy Rowe

A Story of Strength, Recovery, and Giving Back

As we celebrate National Nurses Week, we take a moment to thank, recognize, and applaud Kristin Waite-Labott, RN, Freedom Institute’s Senior Admissions Coordinator and founder of the Wisconsin Peer Alliances for Nurses.

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Kaitlyn Moore Kaitlyn Moore

Coping Ahead: A DBT Skill to Serve You Well

If your 2024 resolution is still in action, or if you’re ready to start a new one, Ryan Flanagan, MD, Team Lead of Silver Hill Hospital’s ( Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Program, has some recommendations for steeling your resolve and increasing your chances of turning a resolution into a new lifestyle.

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Nancy Rowe Nancy Rowe

Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy Essentials Training

February 23 - 25, 2024
9:00am - 4:30pm

This training course, led by Andrew Tatarsky, PhD, brings a therapeutic orientation to harm reduction settings, a harm reduction frame to treatment settings, and informs all phases of psychedelic-assisted therapy.

The program consists of a combination of lectures, role-plays, case examples, and discussions.

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Kaitlyn Moore Kaitlyn Moore

Freedom Institute Welcomes Andrew Tatarsky, PhD, Pioneer and Founder of Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy

“NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reflecting their collective commitment to proven and progressive treatment models to best serve all patients, Freedom Institute and Silver Hill Hospital have announced Andrew Tatarsky, PhD, as the new Director of Clinical Programming for Freedom Institute, an outpatient treatment and recovery center in midtown Manhattan…”

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Nancy Rowe Nancy Rowe

Freedom Institute Hiring Director of Clinical Programming

Freedom Institute is currently hiring a Director of Clinical Programming, a part-time or full-time role for a clinical psychologist (PhD or PsyD) with a broad background in clinical practice with complex patients (comorbid psychiatric and substance use disorders) and interested in building new programs.

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Kaitlyn Moore Kaitlyn Moore

Treatment for Opioid Addiction

In this VeryWell Mind article on opioid addiction treatments, Ryan Wade, MD, Medical Director, discusses effective medications as well as recent policy and formulation updates that make certain opioid treatments more accessible.

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