Michele is a counselor, a speaker, and professional trainer, and has over 21 years of experience in the profession. She offers workshops that give participants the opportunity to learn more about mental health and gain continuing education credits. As a speaker and counselor, her faith, heart for others, and knowledge of recovery helps others work through their own healing journey. As a NBCC Approved provider of Continuing Education, Michele offers workshops for corporate teams, as well as for individual mental health clinicians, on topics such as Codependency, Families in Addiction, Blended Families, and Ethics.
Michele is currently running a private mental health counseling practice and offers many approaches to therapy, including Interpersonal, Cognitive Behavioral, Intervention, Trauma Focused and more to individual adults. She specializes in addiction, codependency, and life transitions.
Carver Brown is a Love First Interventionist and a certified Recovery Coach and Trainer with the Connecticut Community of Addiction Recovery (CCAR). Carver is also a Structured Family Recovery Counselor and a Grief Recovery Specialist certified with the Grief Recovery Institute. Carver volunteers on a task force for the Episcopal Recovery Program and the Mississippi Department of Corrections and has taken over 7000 people through the 12 Steps nationwide through a program called Back to Basics. Most importantly he is the husband of Beth and the father of Alex.
Dr. Sandra Frazier attended medical school at The University of Mississippi where she also completed a pediatric residency and fellowships in Adolescent Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She has been nationally certified in Addiction Medicine since 1991 and is currently a Fellow in the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). She came to The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 1994 and founded The Addiction Recovery Program in the Department of Psychiatry where she served as Medical Director for 11 years. As part of this program, she worked with many health care professionals with substance use disorders and became interested in professional health and wellbeing and decided to focus her efforts more broadly. To assist health care providers in a more proactive and preventive way, she established The Professional Development Office in 2006 at UAB, and in 2011, she was promoted to Assistant Dean of Professional Development.
Most recently, Dr. Frazier was named UAB Medicine’s first Provider Health Officer. Her practice since 2006 has focused on caring for caregivers. As such, she works with medical students, residents, fellows, Advanced Practice Providers, MDs, and PhDs to provide assessment, triage, counseling, and coaching for such things as stress management, anxiety, depression, burnout, career strategies, relationship management, professionalism issues, communication tips, and leadership, all in a confidential setting. In addition, in 2018, Dr Frazier became the Medical Director of the Alabama Professionals Health Program through the Medical Association of the State of Alabama where she works to ensure the well-being of all physicians and physician assistants throughout the state of Alabama. Based on her years of experience with medical professionals and trainees, Dr. Frazier is a sought-after speaker locally and nationally.
Medical Director of the Addictions Program is board-certified in both general psychiatry and addiction psychiatry. Dr. Bhardwaj received his medical degree from Dr. Vaishampayan Memorial Medical College in Solapur, India, then went on to complete an internship in medicine, surgery, and related branches at Grant Medical College and J.J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, India. In 2017, Dr. Bhardwaj completed a general adult psychiatry residency program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pennsylvania followed by an addiction psychiatry fellowship at Northwestern University, McGaw Medical Center, Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Dr. Bhardwaj’s passion for addictions treatment lead him to UMMC in August of 2018 to be medical director of the then new addiction clinic where he introduced new, evidenced based, methods of addictions care. Dr. Bhardwaj is the medical director of the new Center for Innovation & Discovery in Addiction or CIDA. When Dr. Bhardwaj is not seeing patients or doing research, he enjoys spending time with family, tending to his vegetable garden, or peering through his telescope at nebulae, star clusters, and planets.
