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TAKING A TOUR | Resource Center Chief Operating Officer Marisa Elliott, left, takes White House Direc-
tor of National Drug Policy Michael Botticelli on a tour of the facility before he spoke to counseling students
and professionals during his trip to Dallas this week. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice)
A ‘unique’
Director of National Drug Policy
Botticelli visits SMU counseling
program at Resource Center
DAVID TAFFETI Staff Writer
taffet@dallasvoice.com
Resource Center got a high-profile visitor this
week when the White House's Director of Na-
tional Drug Policy Michael Botticelli dropped in
for a tour of the facilities. Botticelli, who is gay
and in addiction recovery, visited the center after
contacting Southern Methodist University offi-
cials about the school's partnership with the Re-
source Center in offering what he called a unique
a counseling program for LGBT people.
Botticelli visited Resource Center on June 23
and, later in the afternoon, spoke to students in
SMU's counseling program. After touring Re-
source Center, he said the work with SMU was a
"nice partnership" and something he has rarely
seen around the country.
Botticelli said his interest is related to the
process of moving the Obama White House's
drug policy from a punitive criminal justice so-
lution to putting people in treatment. Since ad-
diction rates in the LGBT community are higher
than the population in general, he said he likes
SMU's focus on delivering culturally competent
therapy
Botticelli said he is impressed by the LGBT
track taught at SMU complimenting the addic-
tion and recovery counseling offered in the pro-
gram. Sabine Rakos directs the partnership
program that places SMU counseling students as
interns at Resource Center.
Rakos said most schools offer therapists a
course in multi-cultural counseling. That might
include one chapter and a single lecture on coun-
partnership
seling LGBT clients. She said that leaves most
students confused about the difference between
gender identity and sexual orientation.
At SMU, students in the LGBT track take three
courses: affirmative therapy with lesbian, gay
and bisexual clients, affirmative therapy with
transgender clients and affirmative therapy with
LGBT families and couples.
Rakos said the courses address specific prob-
lems facing the LGBT community, including sub-
stance abuse, major depression and anxiety
disorders. Her program helps counselors under-
stand what they're seeing in the field, she said.
"Someone going through a coming out crisis
is often diagnosed bipolar" and, inappropriately,
prescribed drugs, she said. In another example,
she said, counselors untrained in LGBT issues
often determine that if the client were to be less
feminine, he wouldn't be bullied.
Rakos said her program breaks down hetero-
normative stereotypes of what a family should
look like and teaches a range of what healthy re-
lationships may look like.
Over the past five years, good research has
been done in the LGBT community to create cul-
turally responsive strategies for treating people.
Rakos said just being gay-friendly isn't enough:
a counselor working in the LGBT community
needs to be LGBT-informed. She said she heard
recently that a counselor who billed herself as
"LGBT-friendly" asked a client if he was the man
or the woman in the relationship.
Students take the LGBT track for a wide vari-
ety of reasons, Rakos said. About a quarter of the
students currently in the program are LGBT Oth-
ers have a gay sibling. So for many of the stu-
dents, the issue is personal.
"We're living in a more open society, and they
see the struggle of their friends," Rakos said.
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