Vickie Mc Ginley, M.A., L.P.C.C.
Ms. Mc Ginley has worked in the Addictions field for almost fifteen years, and first learned about Community Reinforcement Approach in a class taught by Dr. Meyers in 1993. Her subsequent clinical work spans a wide range of both clients and settings, starting with homeless mentally ill substance abusers, with incarcerated addicts, and at UNM/CASAA as a clinician on several clinical trials, including COMBINE with Dr. William Miller, Ph.D. and the STAR/ESTAR project with Dr. Robert Meyers, Ph.D. She currently has several positions: working for Robert J. Meyers & Assoc. and with CSAT's Assertive Adolescent & Family Treatment (AAFT) Grant Initiative as a national trainer, supervisor/coach and reviewer; with University of New Mexico's Continuing Education as an instructor in several courses, including CRA, and writing curricula for the Substance Abuse Studies Training Program. Last but not least, she maintains her clinical skills by providing CRA therapy with mandated clients in private practice.

Karen L. Mertig, LCSW, LMSW
Ms Mertig received her Master's in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University and has been a clinical social worker since 2000 and a clinical supervisor since 2003. She was trained and certified in Adolescent CRA (ACRA) and CRA in 2006 and has been a trainer and session coder since that time as well. Her clinical work spans a wide range of both clients and settings including children and adults who have experienced multiple traumas such as sexual abuse, homelessness, mental illness, poverty, gang violence, the death of a family member, and substance abuse in both rural and inner-city communities including New Hampshire, Chicago, and Michigan. Ms Mertig has extensive experience delivering and supervising individual, family, and group treatment addressing mental health as well as substance abuse issues. She currently has several positions: working for Robert J. Meyers & Assoc. and with CSAT's Assertive Adolescent & Family Treatment (AAFT) Grant Initiative as a national trainer, supervisor/coach and reviewer; as well as working at the Volunteer and Family Services Coordinator for Ele's Place, an agency providing support groups for grieving children in Ann Arbor, MI.

Gregory Purvis, M.Sc., R. Psych.
Greg is the Director of Addiction Services, District Health Authorities 4, 5 & 6 (Colchester/East Hants, Cumberland and Pictou Counties) in Nova Scotia. He received his Master's in Clinical Psychology from Saint Mary's University in 1991. Greg is a very active presenter and speaker at many regional and provincial meetings and conferences. In 1996 Greg had the opportunity to present "the Nova Scotia Experience" as the keynote speaker at the Youth and Gambling Conference in Niagara Falls and in 2004 was a moderator at Insight Nova Scotia in Halifax an international problem gambling conference. He has been closing faculty for the National Summer Institute on Addictions for the last three summers and presented at "Issues of Substance"- the national addictions research conference in 2005. He also presented at the International Conference for Treating Addictive Behaviors, ICTAB, in New Mexico in January of 2006. Greg is internationally certified as a trainer in the Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA).He is currently chair of the Atlantic Canada Council on Addictions.

Dr. Martin Reker
Dr. Martin Reker, Head of the Department for Dependence Diseases at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel, has worked for 20 years as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist at the von-Bodelschwingh Institutes Bethel (vBAB), the largest social welfare establishment in Europe. Bethel, which is located in the town of Bielefeld, is regarded as a model region in Germany for the provision of a comprehensive care network for people with addiction problems.
Dr. Reker initially worked as a behavioral therapist at the Epilepsy Centre in Bethel dealing with the self-control of epileptic seizures. Following his move to the Psychiatric Clinic in 1992, he assisted with the formation of a regional addiction support network.
Since 2005, under his leadership, the basic principles of CRA have been introduced step-by-step into the treatment of addiction diseases. In cooperation with Robert Meyers and John Gardin the first comprehensive inter-professional training for CRA Counselors and Supervisors took place in Bielefeld in 2007. At numerous conventions and workshops Dr. Reker has since then become the main contact and reference point for CRA in the German language area.
The CRA handbook compiled by Robert Meyers and J-E Smith was translated by his working group and is available to the German specialist public since autumn 2007.

Hendrik Roozen, Ph.D.
Hendrik G. Roozen is a clinical psychologist working in the field of addiction treatment in the Netherlands. He is the director of the outpatient treatment services of Bouman Mental Health Care (GGZ), location Spijkenisse. Furthermore, he is affiliated faculty at Erasmus University Medical Centre, Department of Forensic Psychiatry in Rotterdam. His Ph.D. dissertation was completed in 2005 at the Department of Clinical Psychology, Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, and was entitled "The Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) and naltrexone in the treatment of addiction". Correspondingly, his interests include behavioral oriented treatments such as CRA, contingency management, and pharmacological treatments related to substance use disorders.

Brian Serna, MA, NCC, MAC, LHMC, LADAC
Mr. Serna is a national trainer and consultant in Evidence Based Practices (EBPs) and the clinical supervisor for the Behavioral Health Program at the Pueblo of Isleta in New Mexico. Mr. Serna excels at designing programs that implement EBPs with individuals who are resistant and under legal mandate to attend treatment and those with co-occurring disorders. He has been working with the Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) and Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training (CRAFT) since 2001, receiving his training and supervision directly from Dr. Robert J. Meyers. He has treated and supervised hundreds of clinical cases, is a certified CRA, and adolescent CRA (A-CRA), coder and has rated and provided feedback for hundreds of counseling sessions in English and Spanish on a national and international level. Mr. Serna is also a Motivational Interviewing Supervisor Trainer and provides training and consultation in Motivational Interviewing. Mr. Serna is currently involved in consultation and training with Robert J. Meyers & Associates, the Addiction Technology Transfer Center and has served as an EBP fidelity reviewer for the State of Oregon.

Jane Ellen Smith, Ph.D.
Jane Ellen Smith, Ph.D, is a Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Smith is a licensed clinical psychologist (NM license # 493) who specializes in both substance abuse and eating disorders. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology in 1985. She has published 50 articles or chapters on these topics. She is the first author on a therapists' book for CRAFT; the program that works through family members to get a resistant substance abuser to enter treatment (Smith & Meyers, 2004). She is the second author on a CRA book (Meyers & Smith, 1995). She has received two grants from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to test CRA with homeless populations. In addition to her teaching within the Psychology Department for the past 21 years, she has been regularly involved in training substance abuse counselors in the state for over 13 years. Dr. Smith has just been hired as a trainer/supervisor of CRA as part of a city-wide initiative for substance abuse counselors in Albuquerque. She also currently is a consultant for therapists being trained in the adolescent version of CRA (ACRA). Dr. Smith has also served as the Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of New Mexico.