Alison L. VanHorn

Her role includes assisting with program development to enhance clinical and residential services, keeping excellence in care as paramount, and delivering services that result in the best possible outcomes for patients and their families. In her capacity as a leader, Alison offers support, professional development and supervision, and oversees the program’s therapeutic components, employing evidence-based treatments that help build a foundation for healthy lives in recovery.

Alison is a Florida board-certified addiction professional and clinician who specializes in the treatment of individuals with substance abuse, mental health, and co-occurring disorders. She has experience and training in various clinical approaches including dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), EMDR-T, cognitive behavioral therapy, and is a NARM-informed professional (neuroaffective relational model).

She has worked in various roles at Caron Renaissance since 2016, including as a counselor assistant, a primary therapist, a family therapist, and, most recently, as a family services supervisor. Alison was one of the first dialectical behavioral therapy team members when it was implemented into Renaissance’s therapeutic program.

She has prior experience working as an individual and family therapist at an inpatient adolescent treatment center where she provided trauma-informed treatment for male teens who faced addiction and mental health issues and provided psychoeducation and therapist to families.

Alison has extensive volunteer experience with the FBI and the Violent Crimes Against Children Task Force in Philadelphia, where she participated in a national initiative to raise awareness of addiction and human trafficking in 2018. As a result of her work with this initiative and her own personal experiences, Alison was asked to provide a keynote speech at the Buck’s Coalition Against Trafficking conference in Pennsylvania in 2018 about the addiction, mental health, and sex trafficking epidemics and to promote a shift in resources and treatment available to help those impacted.

She has a master of social work from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. Alison also has a master’s degree in criminology and a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, both from Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she graduated with honors. She is an active member of the National Association of Social Workers.