Gorski-CENAPS presents the 3rd..
PREVENTING RELAPSE SYMPOSIUM
Hosted by Options Recovery In Berkeley, CA

June 13th & 14th, 2025
Location: Options Recovery, 1931 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704
Moderated by: Roland Williams, Gorski-CENAPS CEO/Director of Training
This 2-Day Preventing Relapse Symposium is designed for behavioral health professionals interested in advancing their skills to help relapse-prone persons remain in recovery. Day one features a full day of Denial Management Counseling (DMC), a process that enhances clinical skills to help clients exhibiting treatment resistance and denial more effectively. On day two, attendees will learn techniques to prevent relapse in a variety of settings with various presenting problems. Certified Relapse Prevention Specialists will share best practices for successfully using the Gorski-CENAPS Model of Recovery and Relapse Prevention with diverse programs, clients, and special populations.
Earn 15 CE credit hours
Participants who attend the full 2-days will receive a certificate of participation with 15 CE credit hours.
**If you are a current Gorski-CENAPS Certified Specialist, your attendance will qualify for your recertification with no additional fees. Please let us know if this applies.
To pay by check, follow the instructions on the registration form.
Symposium Overview
DAY ONE
Denial Management Counseling Training
Instructors:
Dr. Stephen Grinstead, AD, LMFT, ACRPS
Leonardo Martinez, MSW, LCSW, CADCII, ACRPS
** Option to become a credentialed Certified Denial Management Specialist (CDMS) Certified with completion of Competency Certification Portfolio.
DAY TWO SESSIONS
Utilizing the Gorski-CENAPS Model for In-Custody & Post-Release Clients
Presented By Richard Beal, M-RAS, CSC, FAC, CCDS, CADCII, ACRPS
Relapse Prevention for Addiction Interaction Disorder: Association to early exposure to sugar
Presented by Bitten Jonsson, RN, Addictions Specialist (SUGAR/ADDIS Cert.), ACRPS
Management Strategies For Excessive/Compulsive Electronic Device Behavior Using The Gorski-CENAPS Model
Presented by Anthony Covington, ACRPS
Trauma, Violence, & Nutritional Recovery: An integrated care modality for relapse prevention across Indigenous communities
Presented by Nephi Craig, BHT, ACRPS
A Faith-Based Approach to Relapse Prevention: With relationships, family dynamics, and youth
Presented by Kenneth Love, BA, LAADC, CADC II, LCADC, ACRPS
Travel Information and Notes on Accommodations
It is the participants responsibility to secure travel and lodging. CENAPS does not have a room block at a hotel but suggests the following options as they are near the event location.
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Berkeley Marina
200 Marina Blvd, Berkeley, CA 94710
Phone: (510) 548-7920
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Berkeley
1175 University Ave, Berkeley, CA 94702
Phone: (510) 548-1700
Residence Inn by Marriott Berkeley
2121 CENTER STREET, Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510) 982-2100
2086 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510) 845-7300
Uber/Lyft is an easy way to get around Berkley, as parking can get expensive. Berkeley, California has public transportation, including buses, BART (Bay Area Public Transit subway), and UC Berkeley's Bear Transit.
Symposium Location
About Denial Management Counseling Training
Denial is a serious problem in the treatment of addiction and coexisting personality and mental disorders. This course will present an overview of a comprehensive clinical system for managing denial and creating intrinsic motivation for treatment.
Learning Objectives
By attending training, participants will be able to:
About Instructor Dr. Stephen Grinstead
Dr. Stephen Grinstead, LMFT, ACRPS is an internationally recognized expert in preventing relapse related to addiction and chronic pain disorders. He is the developer of the Addiction-Free Pain Management® system. He has a BA in Behavioral Science, a master’s in counseling psychology and a Doctorate in Addictive Disorders. He has conducted nationwide seminars and certification trainings for thousands of healthcare providers in Relapse Prevention, Denial Management and the APM™ System since 1996. He has also authored and co-authored several books with Terence T. Gorski since 1996.
About Instructor Leonardo Martinez
Leonardo Martinez, LCSW, ACRPS, is a dedicated mental health professional with over a decade of experience. As a faculty member of Gorski-CENAPS®, he contributes significantly to the recovery community through his work as a trainer and educator. Leonardo specializes in mental health concerns, relationship dynamics, and behavioral issues, including addiction. He has a proven track record in fostering healing and growth by guiding individuals through mental roadblocks and helping them discover practical solutions to both commonplace and critical challenges.
About CDMS Credentials
Learn More About Gorski-CENAPS Certified SpecialistsDay one of the 2025 Preventing Relapse Symposium will provide the classroom hours to become a credentialed Gorski-CENAPS Certified Denial Management Specialist (CDMS). As an option, participants may complete the Competency Certification Portfolio for the Denial Management Counseling training program to earn their credentials. Submitted portfolios will be reviewed by a Gorski-CENAPS Senior Instructor. As competency certification is an additional service, there is a $150 review fee due at the time of submission.
Day Two Details
Utilizing the Gorski-CENAPS Model for In-Custody & Post-Release Clients
This training provides justice-involved individuals with a structured approach to relapse prevention using the CENAPS Model of Relapse Prevention developed by Terence Gorski. The focus is on understanding relapse as a process, recognizing early warning signs, and developing personalized coping strategies for both incarceration and post-release environments. Training will cover the biopsychosocial model of addiction, emphasizing emotional, mental, and physical relapse stages.
Learning Objectives: By attending this presentation participants will be able to:
- Identify stress management techniques, problem-solving skills, and how to build strong support networks to navigate high-risk situations effectively.
- Create a Personal Relapse Prevention Plan to address triggers related to incarceration, reentry stress, and community reintegration.
About the Instructor
Richard Beal M-RAS, CSC, FAC, CCDS, CADCII, ACRPS
Richard Beal has over 25 years of experience working with the justice involved population. He is currently the Director of Recovery Services for Tenderloin Housing Clinic. He has managed several residential programs in the San Francisco Bay Area including Western Addition Recovery House, (San Francisco, Ca.) Center for Recovery (San Francisco, Ca.) and in-custody program Roads to Recovery in San Francisco County Jail. Richard Beal has the unique blend of working with diverse populations, clinical knowledge, living experience, and comprehensive understanding of the complex dynamics underlying addiction, relapse, and recovery. He has been utilizing the CENAPS model in treatment facilities for the last twenty years.
Relapse Prevention for Addiction Interaction Disorder: Association to early exposure to sugar
Sugar is the gateway drug and craving management, relapse training, and relapse prevention are extremely important for sugar addicts. The very early exposure to this psychoactive substance and the constant exposure from the food industry’s aggressive marketing makes craving management and relapse prevention is very important. Professionals need to be trained, certified and licensed to perform the therapeutic and motivational diagnostic process. Training, which is on-line, involves an introduction to the subject of addiction, the disease concept according to ASAM’s definition (latest versions 2011 and 2019), how it’s classified and diagnosed according to internationally agreed standards, and provides trainees with analytical skills as well as the ability to conduct therapeutic interviews with clients as part of the evaluation process. Once trained to use the diagnostic tool SUGAR®, health professionals are able to offer the results of the evaluation in an ICD-10 or DSM-5 grounded summary of symptoms of addiction, which can be provided to the client and which in turn provides a scientifically based reasoning and evidence for a diagnosis and a proposed treatment protocol. The treatment protocol I have developed, Holistic Medicine for Addiction, HMA®, is built on the CENAPS model, among other tools.
Learning Objectives: By attending this presentation participants will be able to:
- Understand addiction screening, assessment, and diagnostic assessment.
- Understand the progression of sugar addiction.
- Understand metabolic dysfunction, a life-threatening medical issue.
- Understand how to implement relapse prevention in the assessment/treatment process.
About the Instructor
Bitten Jonsson, RN, Addictions Specialist (SUGAR®/ ADDIS® Cert.) ACRPS
Bitten Jonsson is a world-renowned trainer of Sugar Addiction Counselors, with nearly 40 years of experience in addiction medicine and treatment. Based in Sweden, Bitten is a registered nurse, addiction specialist and authorized provider of SUGAR® / ADDIS® diagnostic assessments and training. Her expertise spans the full range of addiction screening and diagnostic assessment to relapse prevention, long-term recovery, holistic addiction medicine, and comprehensive training for professionals.
Management Strategies For Excessive/Compulsive Electronic Device Behavior Using The Gorski-CENAPS Model
Description: This session will provide a practical approach to reveal how we expose ourselves to addictive electronic device use and corrective methods using the CENAPS model for relapse prevention. We’ll demonstrate how severe the psychological, emotional, physical, and overarching, spiritual toll is on our productivity. By intentionally living our core values we will learn how to disarm our proclivity towards mindless scrolling.
Learning Objectives: By attending this presentation participants will be able to:
- Establish and/or enhance a core value system that support one’s stated goals, achievement aims.
- Recognition of behavioral patterns that derail recovery core values and beliefs.
- Effective course correction strategies using The Gorski-CENAPS Model.
About the Instructor
Anthony Covington, ACRPS
Anthony has devoted over two decades as a firefighter/paramedic and has a caregiving temperament. Being a first responder, he has firsthand experience with substance abuse disorders and the consequences related to alcohol and other substance use disorders. He’s been successfully recovering in Narcotics Anonymous for over 36 years and currently serving as a Lay Counselor, DivorceCare and Re|engage Marriage Counseling Facilitator with the Scottsdale Bible Church Psychology Department and Phoenix Seminary Graduate Alumni. Anthony lives with a focus on glorifying God, and loving those made in the image of God. One of his latest projects is Imago Dei Coaching LLC (a faith based coaching practice) was born out of his passion to care for hurting souls. He’s excited to join “2025 CENAPS Symposium” team. Anthony resides in Arizona with his amazing wife Cindy and his 15 y/o granddaughter Mysia.
Trauma, Violence, & Nutritional Recovery: An integrated care modality for relapse prevention across Indigenous communities
Description: This session examines health disparities across communities while leveraging Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge & the CENAPS model in relapse prevention. This session includes a cooking demonstration and small tasting. This session presents food, nutritional awareness, and cooking as a practical skill in enhancing relapse prevention efforts.
Learning Objectives: By attending this presentation participants will be able to:
- Gain a better understanding of the connection between health disparities, food choices, and trauma among vulnerable populations and marginalized groups.
- Gain a better understanding of Indigenous Foodways as a behavioral health intervention for individuals and families in recovery.
- Learn how food, cooking, and agriculture play a role in preventing relapse and changing family interaction patterns at home.
About the Instructor
Nephi Craig, BHT, ACRPS
Chef Nephi Craig has 27 years culinary experience in America and abroad in Canada, Mexico, London, Germany, Brazil, and Japan. Nephi Craig is an enrolled member of the White Mountain Apache Tribe and is half Navajo. Chef Craig is the founder of the Native American Culinary Association or NACA, an organization/network that is dedicated to the research, refinement, and development of Native American Cuisine. Chef Nephi Craig provides training, workshops and lecture sessions on Indigenous Foods for Health to schools, restaurants, universities, treatment centers, behavioral health agencies, and tribal entities from across America and abroad. Chef Craig served as Executive Chef of the Sunrise Park Resort Hotel. During Chef Craig’s nine-year tenure at Sunrise Park resort, Craig and his White Mountain Apache culinary team achieved many national and international benchmarks in establishing a culture of Indigenous Foods across North America. Chef Craig was featured in the James Beard Award winning film ‘Gather’ in 2020, which showcases Craig’s leadership in the Indigenous Food Sovereignty movement now spreading across the United States and around the world.
Chef Craig is currently the Nutritional Recovery Program Coordinator & Executive Chef at the Rainbow Treatment Center at Café Gozhóó on the White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona. Chef Nephi Craig is a 2023 James Beard Foundation Nominee for ‘Best Chef Southwest’ and also holds an honorary degree of PhD in Visual Arts: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.
A Faith-Based Approach to Relapse Prevention: With relationships, family dynamics, and youth
We will explore the role of faith in recovery, and how incorporating spirituality can provide a sense of belonging, purpose, and hope for relationships. Family relationships can make or break addiction recovery. Just as a refuge provides a sense of security and protection, faith can serve as a powerful tool to strengthen one’s relapse prevention plan.
Learning Objectives: By attending this presentation participants will be able to:
- Learn how to create a safe unconditionally accepting environment for the addiction-prone population where God’s grace is in place.
- Learn how to incorporate faith into a relapse prevention plan designed to address dysfunctional family roles that include the Drama Triangle.
- Learn spiritual practices that can help cultivate self-awareness and acceptance, inner peace and strength for adults and youth within a family.
- Learn how to navigate through conflicts and challenges that may arise when integrating faith into a 12-Step program or other recovery support groups involving youth, adults, and couples.
About the Instructor
Kenneth Love, BA, LAADC, CADC II, LCADC, ACRPS
Rev. Kenneth Love is the Founder and Executive Director of BreakFree Ministries. He is a Licensed Advanced Alcohol & Drug Counselor (LAADC), Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor (CADC II), International Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor (ICADC), and Advanced Certified Relapse Prevention Specialist (ACRPS). He is considered a specialist in the field of chemical addiction, 12-step recovery, and relapse prevention. He teaches recovery education seminars, facilitates recovery workshops, in-service training, group therapy, and aftercare relapse prevention. He provides addiction counseling for individuals, couples, and families, as well as Christian pre-engagement, pre-marital, and marriage counseling. He has been training, teaching, and preaching throughout the US, Europe, and Third World countries for nearly three decades.
