Introduction to Caron’s Breakthrough Program at Encore Outpatient Services

Thu Aug 21 2025 at 11:00 am to 02:00 pm UTC-04:00

Encore Outpatient Services | Arlington

Caron Pennsylvania
Publisher/HostCaron Pennsylvania
Introduction to Caron\u2019s Breakthrough Program at Encore Outpatient Services Join us at Encore Outpatient Services location in Arlington, VA to learn more about Caron's Breakthrough Program.
About this Event

Join us at Encore Outpatient Services location in Arlington, VA to meet Joe Emick, Caron’s Breakthrough Lead Therapist to learn more about Caron’s Breakthrough Program as well as be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a discounted Breakthrough Workshop.

Breakthrough’s specially designed workshops at Caron's Pennsylvania campus can help anyone who desires emotional health, mutually satisfying relationships, and wellbeing. Built on emotionally focused therapy, resilience building, the expressive arts, and psychodrama, Breakthrough workshops explore relational patterns and barriers to build a foundation for emotional wellness, authenticity, and fulfillment.

Breakthrough’s Experiential Modalities:

  • Emotionally focused therapy that connects emotions to thoughts and behaviors
  • Psychodrama
  • Gestalt therapy
  • Examinations of internal family systems
  • Mindfulness-based practices/yoga
  • Sensorimotor techniques that incorporate body, mind, and spirit
  • Art therapy
  • Exercises addressing complex grief and shame

Schedule

Breakthrough/Networking event 11am-2pm

  • 11am-12pm Light lunch
  • 12-12:15 Welcome and introductions
  • 12:15pm-1:30pm Breakthrough presentation, Joe Emick
  • 1:30-2pm Closing and raffle prizes – must be present to enter for a chance to win a Five-Day Breakthrough Workshop at a discounted rate.

Discover the core elements that lead to meaning, purpose, and happiness in your life and relationships with Breakthrough’s transformative workshops for individuals, couples, and others. To learn more about Breakthrough, check out this video!

For more information and questions, please contact Jessica Means at [email protected] or Sam Peterson at [email protected].


Meet the Presenter:

Joe Emick, MA, LPC, CAADC, CMAT, CSAT

Breakthrough Lead Therapist

Joe Emick is the supervisor in Caron’s Breakthrough Program. In this role, he provides therapy and trauma-informed support through a lens of non-judgmental and non-conventional adjunctive therapeutic approaches.

He has designed and implemented weekly trauma art therapy groups and three-day intensive sessions focused on addiction interaction for patients struggling with substance use, trauma, and other behavioral compulsivity issues.

Joe has worked at Caron since 2011 focusing on addiction and relapse issues; sexual, physical, and developmental traumas; LGTBQIA+ issues; and internal family system dynamics. Prior to coming to Caron, he worked with various populations at the National Institutes of Health Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, and the George Washington Art Therapy Trauma Clinic in Alexandria, Virginia. Joe practiced architecture for 25 years before moving into the counseling profession.

In recovery for almost two decades, Joe has had experience as an addict, a patient, and as a counselor, giving him a deep understanding of the specific issues that come with struggle and change. He is passionate about creating a safe container to explore difficult topics with creative methods and approaches. He is passionate about creating a safe container to explore difficult topics with novel methods and approaches.

Joe is a licensed professional counselor, a certified advanced alcohol and drug counselor, and a certified sex and multiple addictions therapist. He has a Master of Arts in art therapy and counseling from George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Event Venue

Encore Outpatient Services, 1005 N. Glebe Rd, Arlington, United States

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