Jeff Georgi

Background

About Jeff Georgi

Jeff has practiced psychotherapy with a focus on substance abuse and families for more than 30 years. He holds licenses as a Clinical Addiction Specialist, a Certified Clinical Supervisor, a Licensed Professional Counselor, and a Certified Group Psychotherapist by the American Group Psychotherapy Association. Recently, Jeff and his wife, Becky, co-founded Bluefield: A University Recovery Community in Durham, NC. Due to his extensive career in substance abuse education and consulting, Jeff contributes strongly to Georgi Educational and Counseling Services (GECS) in its work with educational, governmental, and non-profit as well as for-profit organizations. A sought after public speaker, he has delivered over 100 plenary, breakout, or workshop sessions for a variety of local, state, and national groups in the general field of substance abuse identification, treatment, and recovery, addressing the family unit rather than just the individual. On a national level, Jeff has co-facilitated the authorship of the Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) on Group Psychotherapy and has contributed to three other TIPs including Motivational Enhancement. Jeff previously served as the clinical director of the Duke Addictions Program. For more than two decades at the Medical Center, Jeff held clinical appointments in the Departments of Surgery, Obstetrics, and Psychiatry. Jeff developed a substance abuse consult service reaching all departments at Duke University Medical Center. He initiated substance abuse treatment as part of the liver transplant service while at DUMC and authored a chapter on Transplantation of Alcoholic Liver Disease in the Surgical Text edited by Paul Killenberg and Pierre-Alain Clavien. He remains a consulting faculty member in the Department of Behavioral Medicine as well as a faculty member of the Duke University School of Nursing. He has also served as the Director of Psychological Services for the Rice Diet Program in Durham, North Carolina. Specialties: Focusing in the areas of Addictions and the Brain, Clinical Spirituality, Ethics, Motivational Enhancement Therapy, Group Psychotherapy, Dual Diagnosis and Craving Management.