Joshua Pierce, MDiv, SUDCCIOP Program in Tehachapi, CA
MDiv, SUDCC
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Joshua Pierce is the president and founder of Cornerstone Center for Counseling and Discipleship. He earned a Masters in Divinity with a graduate certificate in pastoral counseling in 2017 and was ordained in the Church of the Nazarene the same year. After experiencing a mental breakdown caused by depression in 2012, he shifted his ministerial focus to fighting the stigma against mental health and opened Cornerstone in 2017 to provide affordable mental health care to the community.
Credentials
MDiv, SUDCC
Role
IOP Program
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Co-occurring
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spots the thought-feeling-action loops that fuel urges, then rewires them with practical skills you take into the moment.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. A structured trauma therapy that helps the brain re-file painful memories so they stop hijacking the present.
Family systems
Family Systems work. Brings the people closest to you into the recovery picture, since urges and relationships rarely live in separate boxes.
Group therapy
Group Therapy. A small facilitated circle where people working on similar struggles practice naming what is hard, hearing themselves in others, and learning skills together. The room is the medicine.
Trauma-informed care
Trauma-Informed Care. Approaches addiction as something layered on top of unprocessed trauma, not in isolation. Pacing matters more than confrontation.
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