PASSIONATE PARENT COACHES

Trina Faatz,  Laura Bressler, &  Mila Long
We've been there...we can help.

                         Trina is a Certified Peer and Family Specialist and Parent Peer Recovery Coach, and has

                         worked with over 400 families in assisting them with coaching, resources and                           

                         psychoeducation on substance use and opioid use disorder. Her expertise lies in family       

                         and parent coaching and community resources. She is a tireless advocate for child welfare,

                         addiction recovery and prevention, and family wellness.                                   

Trina is passionate about, and is well versed in, the struggles and challenges facing youth and  parents today. Her own daughter struggled with severe substance misuse and opioid addiction, as did several of her friends' teens. Having navigated the system, treatment options, and intervention services, she and her daughter slowly created their own treatment module and rebuilt their family's relationships and trust.  Her daughter is now a widely sought addiction counselor, peer recovery coach and trauma therapist. She and Trina work closely with families through CRAFT struggling with substance misuse. 

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Trina has served on the Board of Directors of Natural Highs for the last 6 years, which is a Boulder County teen program of alternative and health lifestyle choices. She also served on the Board of  Directors for Voices for Children/CASA for 13 years and works closely with several school districts and the Parent Engagement Network to provide support to parents, resources and referrals, and education around addiction.

 In 2018 Trina  founded the substance use high school education program, Youth in Recovery.  In 2022 they were the proud recipients of the CO State of the State Youth Mental Health Award. This program brings addiction education and stories of recovery to high school classroom audiences!          

                  Laura  is passionate about working with parents to help them to navigate their child's                                               substance use, learn what they can do to impact it, and coach them in the process of helping                               them reduce use, achieve and maintain recovery. She fully understands these struggles, and                                 the toll it takes on a parent and family, as a mom of an adult son in recovery. After struggling                                 for many years, with numerous treatment approaches, including her own engagement in                                       parent coaching, her son found long-term recovery, and is now running a successful sober                                     adventure travel business - Choose Life Sober Adventures. Throughout their harrowing family ordeal, Laura and her husband learned what they could do differently as parents to positively impact and support their son's recovery. Throughout their recovery journey with their son, and wishing she could find more support for themselves, she become passionate about becoming that person to help other families and has now been providing those services to concerned parents for nearly 12 years. Laura earned her Master's in Addiction Studies and is a Licensed Addiction Counselor and a Certified Parent Coach. She specializes in working with parents struggling with their child's substance abuse and often co-occurring mental health concerns. She is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)  and a Master's level trained Brainspotting trauma therapist, and uses trauma therapy to help individuals process and heal from traumas impacting their lives and parenting. She is also a Certified Acudetox Specialist, employing the 5-point ear acupuncture protocol to assist in resolving trauma and to support mental and physical health.

In her private practice, Laura's services range from psychoeducation related to substance use, mental health, trauma, and referring to appropriate treatment;  support for parents to develop skills and approaches that can impact a child's recovery; facilitating an understanding and healing of family dynamics and relationships; and trauma therapy to process and heal past wounds that impact today's functioning, including the emotional impact of a loved one's addiction on the parent. She has served for many years on the Board of Directors of Natural Highs in Boulder, and as a member of their team in the community, supporting parent advocacy and substance use/mental health education groups. Laura is passionate about sharing C.R.A.F.T. with families in both groups and in private coaching/counseling sessions.

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                                   Mila Long is a passionate person in recovery committed to creating health and wellness for

                                   individuals, families, and communities.  Mila is a Substance Abuse Counselor/ Addiction

                                   Specialist, Brainspotting Trauma Therapist, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Counselor, Peer

                                   Recovery Coach, and Acudetox Specialist. She has been working tirelessly in the field of

                                   Substance-abuse Treatment since 2018 and has helped people of all ages and backgrounds. Mila is especially dedicated to her work with teens and parents - As a compassionate, non-judgemental, and knowledgeable clinician, she is only 27 years old and prides herself on being able to connect with young people in a special way. She is an advocate for all, and has great experience navigating the world of Substance abuse, Recovery, and Treatment. 

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Mila is also a person with lived experience, having survived a long-lived and challenging struggle with a Substance use disorder, and has been living a healthy, happy, and fulfilling life in recovery for many years now.

Her experience motivated her to help others, and she now runs a successful business / private practice offering her services to teens, young adults, and families/ parents.

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Mila has received 2 Community Service awards through Boulder County Public Health and Boulder County Community Services for her role in serving the community. She has been, and continues to, Co-facilitate CRAFT classes with both Laura and Trina for multiple years now.

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