October Meeting - Setbacks and Solutions: Leveraging the Backsliding of Acquiring Behaviors- 10am to noon

Program Details

Backsliding is a frequent and often frustrating challenge for our clients, particularly those struggling with compulsive buying and other forms of acquiring. This presentation will deepen your understanding of the range of acquiring behaviors as well as some of the contributing factors. Participants will gain practical strategies for recognizing, preventing, and responding to backsliding when it occurs, as well as ways of framing setbacks that foster resilience and progress in client work.

About Karen Kruzan

Psychotherapist, professional organizer, speaker, and author Karen Kruzan, LISW-S, CPO-CD embodies the Twin Brooks tagline “No Judgment. Just Relief.” Adults facing organizing, clutter, and mental health challenges find her gentle and practical methods comforting and productive. Karen uses her training and experiences in both the behavioral health and organizing fields to help people overcome barriers to having the lives they envision.

In addition to holding the LISW-S and CPO-CD credentials, Karen is a certified hoarding and chronic disorganization specialist and a certified telebehavioral health practitioner. She serves on the Franklin County Hoarding Task Force. Karen is a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), a subscriber with the Institute for Challenging Disorganization (ICD), and was twice the featured organizer on TLC’s Hoarding: Buried Alive!