Skye Anfield, PMHC-A ’24, Named Fellow of the Month
Anfield is the director and founder of Arbor House Portland, a sober living facility that provides residential and wrap-around recovery services to women, non-binary, and femme-identifying individuals in Portland, Oregon.
“In my current position at the Arbor House Portland, I have had the opportunity to integrate the approaches and interventions that I am learning through the MFP to the populations I work with directly.”
Anfield is the director and founder of Arbor House Portland, a sober living facility that provides residential and wrap-around recovery services to women, non-binary, and femme-identifying individuals in Portland, Oregon. His professional interests include improving culturally sensitive mental health services and advancing equitable and accessible addictions treatment for marginalized groups, especially for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, women, LGBTQ+ women, first-generation women, and immigrant women in recovery from substance use disorders and other comorbid disorders.
Anfield applied to the MFP at the recommendation of his advisor and L&C faculty member, Alexia de León, and plans to apply the knowledge and skills acquired from the MFP as an educator, clinician, and advocate for equitable addictions counseling for women.
“In my current position at the Arbor House Portland, I have had the opportunity to integrate the approaches and interventions that I am learning through the MFP to the populations I work with directly. As I intend to maintain my target population in the future, as well as my current position, I plan on continuing with the same fluidity while engaging with my clients from a place of humility to find what’s truly effective.”
Visit MFPCC’s website to read Skye Anfield’s full Fellow of the Month profile.
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