Arizona

Tami VerHelst, CPRN is the CEO of Momentum Addiction Recovery Services (www.momentumaddictionrecovery.com) which she created as a service to addiction health care providers who share her passion for helping their clients in the process of Moving  Recovery Forward. Her sustained 37 year tenure in sustained recovery provides ongoing inspiration for her work to introduce others to the joy of sober living.

Tami began her career as an addiction programming educator and developer when she was recruited by Dr. Patrick Carnes, PhD, author of Facing the Shadows to serve the addiction treatment community in the role of Vice President at the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) in 2007.   Her work with the multi-talented Certified Sex Addiction Therapists further inspired her to look for ways of supporting the work being done to meet the recovery needs of addicts and their families.  

After leaving IITAP in 2017 she has been working to develop organizational and programmatic resources for addiction treatment providers looking to expand the scope market and the depth of their service.  Her personal commitment to professional development led her into an extensive mentorship with Leadem Counseling & Consulting Services which has culminated in her  recent endorsement as a Certified Relapse Prevention Navigator.  She hopes to serve the educational needs of clients being treated by CSATs and other addiction treatment providers through her comprehensive understanding of relapse prevention.

She believes that the ravages of addiction and relapse have far reaching costs for the addict and his or her family and that  intervening on the relapse cycle is key. She believes that “ … relapse should not be an accepted part of recovery-it does not need to be.  Too many people do not make it back to recovery.” Tami is committed to helping those wanting to get off the relapse merry-go-round have the necessary tools to change.

Tami lives in Arizona but works via Zoom anywhere in the world.