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The majority of the staff at HLA are not qualified to be in their positions. The Director of Addiction Counseling, Clay Erickson, had his medical license revoked from Washington State and cannot become licensed as an Addicitions Counselor in Georgia because his licensed was revoked.

The administrative staff teaches classes half the time - and they are licensed teachers. Even some of the administrative staff is assigned as Peer Group Counselors and they have no experience or background in counseling.

This place is full of lies - do not allow your child to be sent there or to Ridge Creek or Mountain Brook Academy.

According to the Office of Regulatory Services, HLA , as an RTC must follow strict guidelines(ho,ho,ho) in their staffing as set forth in the state regulations.
Keith Bostick ( ORS) knowing that many of HLA's staff, including Clay Erikson(Director of Addictions), fail to have the proper licensing or academic credentials essential to holding their positions, granted HLA a temporary license - twice. Now if Mr. Bostick dare claims he didn't know
about Mr. Erickson or the rest of the staff that continues this charade at HLA, he damn well should of. He also should have checked the 'credentials' of the rest of the staff, as in call the Universities and Colleges to find out if in fact they even offer Masters Degrees from the schools that staff listed as graduates. Now Mr. Bostick has granted Mountain Brook with a temporary license, knowing what a snake
pit, the entire place is.
As far as I am concerned, the entire upper echelon of the ORS should
be forced to resign, along with the State of Georgia 'pansies 'that have no backbone.

And unfortunately, what you describe at HLA is very much prominent in most of the programs. Even when the staff, administration, counselors have a "degree" or "license" it doesn't mean much, because they still participate in the same sick behavior as their unlicensed counterparts. Parents, please do your research! Make an INFORMED decision!

Nicole and Christy - birds of a feather flock together....

http://www.ca-lo.com/Staff/MeetOurStaff.htm

Nicole Fuglsang, M.A., N.C.C., L.P.C.

Admissions Director

Nicole has worked for over 13 years with the adolescents and their families as a youth leader, therapist and admissions director. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado, and a Master of Arts degree in Counseling from Denver Seminary. Her graduate focus was in child, adolescent, and family psychotherapy. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Georgia a Nationally Certified Counselor and is currently working through the reciprocity process in the state of Missouri for state licensure. Nicole's clinical experience includes work in community and crisis counseling centers, national youth service and ministry organizations, long-term residential treatment programs, and short-term behavioral health care facilities. In these environments she has provided a broad range of mental health and general support services including individual, group, and family psychotherapy, clinical assessments, treatment planning, case management, and referral services. Her areas of clinical expertise include facilitation of adolescent behavioral interventions, treatment of mood and motivational difficulties resulting from acute low self-esteem, eating disorder treatment and prevention, and family crisis management. Nicole is a member of the American Counseling Association as well as the American Association of Christian Counselors. As a trained and experienced clinician, she provides a depth of expertise to inquiring families and referral sources not often found in admissions departments. Nicole was employed at Hidden Lake Academy and Ridge Creek for over seven year prior to being hired by CALO (Change Academy Lake of the Ozarks) in January of 2007. Nicole and her husband Matt, CALO’s Academic Director, live in Osage Beach, Missouri with their two children, Jacob & Abigail.


Christy Jones, Psy.D

Therapist

Dr. Christy Jones is originally from Virginia however she came to CALO (Change Academy Lake of the Ozarks) by way of Georgia, where she has lived for the past 2 ½ years. Dr. Jones worked as an Associate Director of Counseling at a well respected therapeutic boarding school prior to joining CALO’s Clinical team. As an Associate Director of Counseling, Dr. Jones supervised eight masters level therapists, facilitated parent workshops, was the lead therapist for all post-graduate students and provided group, individual and family therapy for students in the program. She reviewed student’s psychological reports and assisted in the development of treatment plans. Dr. Jones also facilitated treatment team meetings to discuss struggling students, regularly evaluated counseling staff skills and training needs, traveled to job related conferences and met with referral sources. During her last few months at Hidden Lake Academy she transitioned to the Director of Admissions position where she supervised and facilitated the acceptance and enrollment process for students and their families.

Dr. Jones received her undergraduate degree from Christopher Newport University in Early Childhood Psychology. After completing her Bachelor degree she continued her education, receiving her Masters and Doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology from Regent University. For three years during her doctoral training she worked with children, adolescents and adults in individual and family sessions. Dr. Jones moved to Bakersfield, California for a year where she completed her doctoral internship. Her clinical internship focused on the forensic population and she worked with adjudicated adolescents at Kern County Crossroads Facility. She also performed Competency to Stand Trial evaluations and worked with probationed adult sexual offenders for Kern County Mental Health. At both facilities she performed intake and full psychological assessments, developed and implemented treatment plans, and facilitated individual and group therapy sessions. Dr. Jones currently lives in Osage Beach with her 3 pets, Lulu, Rascal and Lola.

what is the relationship between HLA and mountain brook?

Mountain Brook Academy is a new lock-down facility located on Hidden Lake's property. Ridge Creek is also located on this same property. All of these entities are owned by Leonard Buccellato.

Wow! I can't believe Clay Erickson is back in the fold. Anybody remember that internal email conversation he put out a couple of years ago? The one describing 3 improper admissions; one resulting in a kid being raped nearly to death with a tree branch?

You're thinking of Clarke Poole. He left HLA because he has morals and a conscience.