Georgi Educational & Counseling Services
A New Model for Treating Addictive Disease
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Georgi Educational & Counseling Services
A New Model for Treating Addictive Disease
Drug addiction is insidious, tenacious and at times seems nearly unstoppable. But, it is treatable.
Nationally respected for their work, with over 70 years of collective experience, Jeff Georgi and Becky Georgi, of Georgi Educational & Counseling Services (GECS), deliver a targeted and science-based approach to helping individuals and families, treatment centers and educational institutions find real solutions in addressing addictive disease.
Through decades of research and experience, utilizing his many areas of expertise, Jeff Georgi has defined a comprehensive model of addictive diseases: The Biological, Psychological, Social, Spiritual and Experiential Model (BPSSEM). This multi-dimensional approach to understanding addiction and recovery is the first of its kind to offer the individual patient and practitioner a flexible, adaptable approach to healing that considers the complexities of an individual’s biological and genetic history, lifestyle, psychological status, spiritual orientation, and accumulation of life experience.
The BPSSEM helps provide a foundation of understanding for the effectiveness of different clinical interventions while identifying areas of vulnerability. Even more fundamental, the BPSSEM defines and describes the inescapable reality that a substance use disorder is much more than a brain disease and it is not a failure of will, character or intellect. BPSSEM is the product of an abundant body of rigorous scientific evidence, and thousands of former addiction patients who are now joyfully living healthy, productive lives – no longer at the mercy of their addiction.
This teachable, integrated treatment model is the cornerstone of Jeff Georgi and Becky Georgi’s work and mission and the topic of a forthcoming book, Beyond Shame: A New Look at Addictive Disease, that will be available to clinicians and the general public in early 2022.
Well-versed on the subject of adolescent and young adult development due to her background in academic settings, Becky Georgi is a trained Family Therapist, and has extensive experience in mental health and addiction treatment in educational, residential, inpatient and outpatient settings.
Rather than compartmentalizing treatment into a single discipline, Jeff and Becky Georgi use an integrated and systemic approach to the recovery process, opening up channels of communication between doctors, therapists, other healthcare professionals and family members involved in the healing process, recognizing that combatting Substance Use Disorder means treating the whole person. As part of this systemic approach, they address the potential for clinician burnout by dealing with the impact of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue.
By creating a patient team that includes both healthcare providers and families, Jeff Georgi and Becky Georgi’s work has modernized prevention, intervention, treatment and education and has positively impacted thousands of clients.
We invite you to contact us if you’re interested in one of our expansive offerings, including training opportunities, consulting, staff development, counseling or recovery coaching.
Jeff Georgi
MAH, LCAS, LCMHC, CCS, CGP
National Speaker and Trainer

Becky Georgi
MS, LCAS, LCMHC, CCS
Program Coordinator
