Alcohol and Drug Rehab Centers in Colorado

Hi, I’m Eric Lapp, the Founder and CEO of the Raleigh House. Just this year, we’ve celebrated our 10th year of serving our community. One thing I’ve learned after working with over a thousand families is that substance abuse devastates families. It destroys lives but most importantly, people do recover and families get better. Long ago I discovered that addiction stems from years of LIFE and it is just a symptom of something more going on. We didn’t cause it but it is our job to figure out how to live a healthy life. The Raleigh House takes a multifaceted approach to treating addiction but first we have to understand the contributing factors of why and how it exists in the first place. At The Raleigh House we are careful to understand what is driving the substance use and the behaviors. We understand that addiction in some cases is a family disease, patterns and behaviors started at a young age that later manifested as problematic substance use and mood irregularities. In order to treat the desire to use, drink and act out unhealthy behaviors we have to grasp the entire picture. What was the childhood like, was there enough attention, was there enough love and nurture, what about support and discipline? Was there space to make choices, was there guidance if there was a better decision? Where did it come from and what prohibitin advancement in life. At The Raleigh House our job is to raise awareness and begin the transformational process, your job is to keep it!

Jerry Vaccaro, M.D., joins APN Lodge as President with over 30 years of experience in Behavioral Health. Jerry received his Bachelor of Science in Biology and Sociology from City University of New York and his Doctor of Medicine in Psychiatry from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Over the course of his career, Jerry has progressed from Director of Community Psychiatry Programs at UCLA to CEO of some of the world’s largest behavioral health companies. Dr. Vaccaro served as President & CEO of PacifiCare Behavioral Health, CEO of United Behavioral Health, and President & CEO of APS Healthcare. While at United Behavioral Health, Dr. Vaccaro was responsible for the Behavioral Health oversight of over 33 million lives. Dr. Vaccaro has also served as an advisor to the White House during his career. Dr. Vaccaro joins APN Lodge as a key member of the leadership team. Dr. Vaccaro‘s clinical background, paired with his years of leadership at Behavioral Health conglomerates, is incredibly unique and an invaluable asset to APN Lodge’s high standards of care and far-reaching vision.

Executive Director and Owner of Rites of Passage LLC and The Phoenix Rising Programs Women’s Residential Extended Care Program and the Intensive Outpatient Programs for both co-ed adults and Teens. I am a transpersonal counselor/psychotherapist, life coach, healer and artist. I have done extensive transpersonal (mind/body/spirit) work as well as trauma/PTSD work and I also have extensive experience as a dual-diagnosis counselor working with substance and eating disorder issues that stem from trauma. I have a masters in counseling psychology, a certification in transpersonal counseling, a certification in equine assisted psychotherapy and life coaching, LPC licensure in the state of Colorado and am a first level Reiki practitioner and certified in the healing modality Jin Shin TARA. I have spent many years working with shamanistic and energy healing modalities. I engage clients in all types of transpersonal work including art therapy, dream therapy, ceremony and self-growth. All of the types of therapy and coaching that I engage in are experiential therapy modalities because I have found that when a person engages their body/mind and spirit together in a session, more is synthesized and integrated allowing breakthroughs to occur quickly and learning or relearning that they engage in allows clients to begin to use this new knowledge immediately as opposed to strictly cognitive based counseling, which can take weeks, months or years without any significant results being made. My work is very diverse because I utilize all of my experience as well as everyone else on the staffs to find what works for each client who comes into our program to excel and focus upon what she needs to achieve her goals.