Liz Jorgensen Email and Phone Number

Professional Biography:Liz Jorgensen has 35 years experience with adolescent and adult psychotherapy and counseling. She is a nationally recognized expert in counseling, particularly in engaging resistant teens and motivating them to change. She was the coordinator of Adolescent Substance Abuse Services at Danbury Hospital and created and ran dual diagnosis partial hospital, intensive outpatient and outpatient services in her 18 years there. Since 2000 Liz has been the owner and director of Insight Counseling in Ridgefield, CT where she collaborates with nine dedicated colleagues to run a full spectrum of outpatient counseling programs, including intensive outpatient services for adolescents and young adults. Liz is also a consultant to Newport Healthcare, an adolescent and young adult treatment system with residential centers in CT, VA, WA and CA and outpatient centers in CA, WA, VA, UT and CT.Liz has received a Congressional Award in 1994 for her work in treatment innovation. Liz has been on faculty of Harvard CME for 19 years and has presented on issues related to adolescent treatment, recovery and program development. Most recently Liz was featured in the Netflix documentary, “Take Your Pills”Liz is also a consultant to independent and public schools and treatment agencies, and is a popular speaker on parenting pre-teens and teenagers. Her well know parent seminars, “Delay Your Gray,” “Taming Your Teen, Love Laughter and Limits”, “Media in Balance” and, “Loving Limits” have been heard by thousands of parents to outstanding reviews. Her counseling theory has been published by NIDA 1990 and her book “Delay Your Gray: How to Keep Your Teen Safe and Yourself Sane” is in press. Liz and her husband Matt are parents of four grown children. Liz is also proud and grateful to be in continuous recovery from addiction since September 22, 1985. All you might want to know about Insight Counseling can be found at our newly updated website:http://insightcounselingllc.com/