Elaine Leadem, MSW,CSAT

Elaine is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania with a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Marywood College. Her specialized training by Patrick Carnes, PhD has rewarded her with a national certification as a Sexual Addiction Therapist by Compass Point Addiction Research Foundation.For the past ten years she has committed her professional talents in service to the special needs students and their families as a member of a Child Study Team in the capacity of a Certified School Social Worker. Elaine’s motivational work with high school students has reaffirmed her belief that young people can be inspired to move beyond the expected rebelliousness of their developmental period. She has learned through her professional experience and personal parenting challenges that young people can increase their academic and behavioral performance when their role models are willing to demonstrate the willingness to learn from their students. Elaine has faced personal adversity with a willingness to learn from life’s challenges. She brings that enthusiasm for living into her therapeutic relationship with the adolescents and adults she works with. Her personal life journey was threatened by alcoholism at an impressionable age yet she has learned to use that experience, supported by extensive professional training, to provide a beacon for young people whose life’s challenges seem insurmountable.Elaine has worked in a variety of professional and personal capacities to help alleviate the suffering of the families whose lives have been impacted by addictive dependencies. She has recently celebrated her 29th year in recovery and believes that “true sobriety will escape both the seasoned and the newcomer if 12 Step Work is ignored.”

John Leadem, MSW, MS, CSAT

John is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania with a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Marywood College and a Master’s Degree in Human Resources Administration from the University of Scranton. His specialized training by Patrick Carnes, PhD has rewarded him with a national certification as a Sexual Addiction Therapist by Compass Point Addiction Research Foundation. His professional service to recovering alcoholics and their families has involved participation in the development and operation of numerous addiction treatment facilities whose therapeutic adherence to 12 Step philosophies coupled with state of the art medical care set them well above their competition. His clinical work in residential and out-patient programs often led him into private and public education arenas. He worked to help those systems to develop a clearer understanding of the antecedents to the troubling behaviors they were identifying in their student population.

During his 34 year tenure in the mental health field he has had the opportunity to work with many emotionally and behaviorally troubled children and adolescents in both residential and outpatient settings. His interest in reducing the severe level of dysfunction being experienced by our youth led him into the educational arena to look for ways of reducing the risk that our children will develop a harmful dependency on alcohol or other drugs. John’s consulting work in the grades K-12 helped to focus his attention on the particular risk that “special needs” students were at for becoming disaffected. He has worked for the past four years as a Certified School Social Worker on a Child Study Team in New Jersey. His training in Special Education Code has helped to refine his student advocacy skills and enhanced his understanding of methods for obtaining special needs services for students in the general education population.

John has recently celebrated his 38th year in recovery and believes that ” service to others is the cornerstone of spiritual maturity.”