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About the speakers

Kristen Beall is the Clinical Manager with the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling, Kristen provides consultation and technical assistance to organizations and private practitioners integrating Problem Gambling screening and assessment into their current treatment paradigms. With 19 years of experience in behavioral health counseling, Kristen works closely with the Center’s Certified Peer Recovery Specialists and helpline staff connecting help seekers to problem gambling resources.  Kristen is dedicated to assisting helping professionals throughout Maryland understand the importance of asking questions about gambling and incorporate these conversations into their clinical practice.

Deborah Perry is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LCPC), Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor Supervisor, and Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Approved Supervisor in the state of Maryland. She holds a national certification as a Master Addictions Counselor. With 20 + years of mental and behavioral health experience her goal is to help a variety of vulnerable populations take back their lives through a collaborative therapeutic relationship where clients are able to identify thoughts, feelings and behavior that will attract desired results. 

Deborah enjoys working with individuals ages 25 to Seniors. Deborah’s eclectic counseling style draws mostly from Person Centered Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Reality Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Existentialism and Motivational Interviewing. Deborah believes clients can chose to change, modify or eliminate that which stifles their personal and emotional growth and experience a deeply inspired and productive lifestyle. Her professional strengths include couples counseling, addiction issues, anxiety, stress management, anger management, LGBT+, self-care/wellness and women’s issues.  

Disclosure Statements

Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services, or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.

Kristen Beall, LCSW-C, ICGC-I, CAC-AD, & Deborah Perry, LCPC, NCC, MAC, report that they have no relationships with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. They will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation.

Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Larry Epp, EdD, Todd Peters, MD, Deepak Prabhakar, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis Marino, MD, Ehsan Syed, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PhD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.