Dr. DawnElise Snipes

Dr. DawnElise Snipes

PhD, LPC-MHSP,

TN, US
Increase productivity with engaging presentations from an authority on motivational enhancement and team building, or increase revenue with training on niche mental health topics or disaster planning.

Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes engages audiences world wide with the #1 ranked Counselor Toolbox Podcast.  She uses her skills in motivational enhancement, culturally responsive care and team building to help your staff unlock their potential.

She can also mental health and substance abuse facilities rise to the next level with customized training and outreach resources on niche topics such as trauma informed care, sex addiction recovery and transdiagnostic approaches to individualized care.  Dr. Snipes can help you educate outreach workers, community stakeholders and clinicians on current knowledge about addiction and mental health issues. The more people know the more they will see the value in behavioral health services, enabling you to acquire more funding and capture a larger market share. 

About Dr. Snipes

  • She earned her MHS in Rehabilitation Counseling followed by a PhD in Counselor Education in 2002.
  • She has been the executive director for one of the leading online continuing education providers since 2006.
  • Her podcast, Counselor Toolbox, has recently been named one of the top 10 social work podcasts for 2018. 
  • In 2015 she published Journey to Recovery: A Comprehensive Guide to Addressing Mental Health and Addiction Issues which has sold in multiple countries. (The second edition is currently in press)
  • She has seen multiple clinics through successful CARF and JCAHO accreditation surveys.
  • She has maintianed a face-to-face and online private practice since 2002.
  • She started as a line clinician and advanced to a director overseeing multiple inpatient and outpatient clinics and 80+ staff serving people with co-occurring disorders in three counties.
  • She taught Substance Abuse Awareness, Stress Management as a graduate assistant and Eating Disorders Counseling and Introduction to Substance Abuse Counseling as an assistant professor at the University of Florida.

Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes engages audiences world wide with the #1 ranked Counselor Toolbox Podcast.  She uses her skills in motivational enhancement, culturally responsive care and team building to help your staff unlock their potential.

She can also mental health and substance abuse facilities rise to the next level with customized training and outreach resources on niche topics such as trauma informed care, sex addiction recovery and transdiagnostic approaches to individualized care.  Dr. Snipes can help you educate outreach workers, community stakeholders and clinicians on current knowledge about addiction and mental health issues. The more people know the more they will see the value in behavioral health services, enabling you to acquire more funding and capture a larger market share. 

About Dr. Snipes

  • She earned her MHS in Rehabilitation Counseling followed by a PhD in Counselor Education in 2002.
  • She has been the executive director for one of the leading online continuing education providers since 2006.
  • Her podcast, Counselor Toolbox, has recently been named one of the top 10 social work podcasts for 2018. 
  • In 2015 she published Journey to Recovery: A Comprehensive Guide to Addressing Mental Health and Addiction Issues which has sold in multiple countries. (The second edition is currently in press)
  • She has seen multiple clinics through successful CARF and JCAHO accreditation surveys.
  • She has maintianed a face-to-face and online private practice since 2002.
  • She started as a line clinician and advanced to a director overseeing multiple inpatient and outpatient clinics and 80+ staff serving people with co-occurring disorders in three counties.
  • She taught Substance Abuse Awareness, Stress Management as a graduate assistant and Eating Disorders Counseling and Introduction to Substance Abuse Counseling as an assistant professor at the University of Florida.

Trauma Informed Care: Improving Service Delivery

Trauma Informed Care principles have been written into the accreditation requirements for JCAHO, so all facilities need to help their staff get up to speed.  This presentation can cover the basics in 8 hours or provide in-depth understanding in the 40 hour track. 

The 8 hour track goes over the basics of trauma informed care.

The 4 Rs of the Trauma-Informed...

Mental HealthAudience ActivityEducational / Informative

Improve Productivity and Morale using the Psychological Flexibility Matrix

When people are not happy, they are not productive.  Often they get stuck in their feelings of depression or anxiety.  This 4 to 8 hour workshop will provide staff and supervisors tools to use to stop drowning in their emotional quicksand and make positive changes to achieve personal and company goals.

Participants will:
  • Learn about the psychological flexibility matrix
  • Identify what constitutes a rich and meaningful life and a fulfilling work...
Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Sex and Pornography Addiction Recovery

As Sex and Pornography Addiction become more widely recognized, people are seeking specialized treatment.   

This training provides information about:
  • What Sex and Pornography Addiction are and are not
  • The impact of pornography on the brain of adults and adolescents
  • Signs and symptoms of sex and pornography addiction
  • The effects of sex and pornography addiction on the person
  • The impact of sex and pornography...
AddictionEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Improving Care Through the Use of a Transtheoretical, Transdiagnostic Approach

Issues like depression, anxiety, fatigue, and even over eating can be caused by a variety of factors.  The transtheoretical approach ensures that when people are assessed physical, psychological and social factors are all considered.  The transdiagnostic approach ensures that we also recognize that many symptoms, such as fatigue, are common to many different issues, and it is imperative to correctly identify the problems. 

For example, symptoms of fatigue, apathy,...
Educational / Informative

Busters Workshops: Practical Tools for Clinicians

The Busters Series of Workshops is designed to provide clinicians brief, solution-focused tools to help people understand what is causing their symptoms and gain practical strategies to to help them start feeling better TODAY!  Dr. Snipes offers Depression Busters, Anger Busters, Anxiety Busters and Addiction Busters.

Dr. Snipes teaches clinicians and outreach workers in an easy to understand, engaging fashion, a combination of brief therapeutic interventions, and...
Mental HealthAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Create Winning Teams Using a Strengths Based Approach

Teams must be cohesive.  In this 8 hour presentation, participants learn about:
  • How temperament and personality styles affect how people manage time, approach projects, get motivated, problem solve, handle confilct and prefer to interact with others.
  • How to identify and synergize each team members strengths
  • What dialectics are and how they can be used for effective problem solving
  • What supervisors can do to empower each individual to be their...
Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing