Christopher M. Owens, MA, LPC, CCTP, Member of MINT – Senior Director of Continuing Education, Office of Faculty
Chris Owens has been with BHE since 2007, and is currently the senior director of continuing education in the Office of Faculty at Drexel University College of Medicine. Before transitioning into academia, he spent years working directly in the field across a wide range of settings, including health education, child and family therapy, adult mental health and substance use treatment.
A member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), Chris has been deeply engaged in MI training for more than two decades, as both a learner and a facilitator. His trainings go beyond technique, emphasizing the human connection at the heart of effective care. He highlights the therapeutic alliance as the most powerful driver of positive outcomes.
Chris’s educational approach — shared across his work and in collaboration with BHE — is simple but impactful: While helpers can’t force change, they can create the conditions where change is more likely to happen.
Karin Gladney, PhD, CAADC
Karin C. Gladney PhD, CAADC has an extensive background in mental and substance use disorders with a concentration in the treatment of co-occurring disorders, forensic rehabilitation, opioid use disorders, and community overdose intervention and prevention. Her career in academic instruction began in addiction counseling, and she has developed and piloted online and hybrid curricula for this discipline. Dr. Gladney has designed and implemented training workshops for workplace professional development for behavioral health organizations with a focus on professionalism, ethics and best practices in behavioral health clinical care.
Dr. Gladney is enthusiastic about community engagement. Her volunteer work includes facilitating conversations and actions against racism and racial disparities, and encouraging cultural and gender sensitivity. She is also a spoken word artist whose prophetic prose is framed around themes of the human condition and relationships.
Lindsay A. Martin, PhD, LPC, NCC
Dr. Lindsay Martin began her work as a behavioral health clinician specializing in co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders and crisis intervention services. Early in her career, she provided individual and group psychotherapy, psychoeducation and evaluations in the outpatient and inpatient treatment environments.
Later, she developed her crisis service skills as a crisis intervention specialist, and ultimately assumed the role of clinical supervisor, providing program oversight, staff training, counselor supervision and quality management, and establishing extensive policies and procedures governing the implementation of crisis services.
Most recently, she supervised counselors at a national crisis intervention center, servicing individuals throughout the nation. Traveling nationwide, she provided training on topics related to suicide prevention and intervention, burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, self-care and holistic wellness.
As an assistant professor at Drexel University College of Medicine, Dr. Martin focuses on providing relevant and practical instruction on a variety of topics related to substance abuse, mental illness and trauma. Acknowledging that clinicians are the primary tool in quality service delivery, she is passionate about the impact of professional quality-of-life factors on holistic wellness among professionals, and emphasizes the importance of self-care practices in everyday life.