Staff

Duane combines intense and personal passion along with humor and caring in his work with people. Mr. Olberding earned his Masters Degree in Clinical Social Work from Washburn University. While in graduate school he completed his internship and training at the Menninger Clinic, formerly located in Topeka, Kansas and the Recovery Center at St. Francis Health Center located just north of Topeka, Kansas.

Mr. Olberding specializes in chemical and behavioral addictions and the co-existing problems of trauma, personality, mood, anxiety disorders, and difficult life transitions.

Mr. Olberding currently serves on the Kansas Citizen’s Committee of the SRS, a legislated policy making group of Addiction and Prevention Services, is past President of the Kansas Coalition on Problem Gambling, and a past Executive Board Member of the Kansas Association of Addiction Professionals. He currently teaches group therapy at Washburn University. He presents to many community and professional organizations on a variety of addictions issues and treatment.

Michael Black
Staff Psychologist
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Doctor Michael Black earned his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Kansas in 2006. He completed his predoctoral internship at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Veterans Administration Medical Center, where he was trained in addiction treatment, psychotherapy, biofeedback, and psychological and neuropsychological assessment. As an intern, he contributed to the development and implementation of the Psychiatry and Addiction Recovery Treatment program, a dual diagnosis program involving dialectical behavioral therapy that remains in use at the medical center.

Dr. Black is currently undergoing postdoctoral training in clinical neuropsychology at the same location. He has also worked as an addictions therapist in the Lawrence area since 1999. In addition to neuropsychology and addiction, Dr. Black is interested in judgment and decision-making. His dissertation involved synthesizing the existing research in this area and applying it to the construction of a model of adaptive vocational judgment and career decision-making. Common to these interests is a brain-based model of psychopathology and psychotherapy, one deeply rooted in attachment theory.

Esther M. Maddux, Ph.D. CFP,® AAPS
Counselor
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Dr. Esther Maddux earned her Ph.D. in Family Resource Management from Purdue University. She holds the certified financial planner designation and is an addiction and prevention services credentialed counselor. At Professional Treatment Services, Dr. Maddux serves as a counselor, with an emphasis on behavioral addictions with a specialty in pathological gambling and financial recovery.

Dr. Maddux has designed Financial Recovery, a financial behavior model to guide clients in achieving financial security. The financial recovery program provides the client with the tools to assess how he or she manages his or her behavior when using money. The program provides tools for assessing the way one uses his or her character potentials for managing life, for observing the way one manages one’s self; for observing the way one manages one’s self in relation to other people, places, or things (including money); and for looking at how one manages when there are differences. Financial Recovery provides the tools to identify where adjustments are needed to be able to reach financial goals.

Dr. Maddux is also a professor in the Financial Planning Unit at Kansas State University where she teaches in the Master of Science Program in Personal Financial Planning Program; serves as a financial management specialist with K-State Research and Extension, and is Graduate Program Director for the School of Family Studies and Human Services. She is a member of the Financial Planning Association, International Society for Quality of Life Studies, and International Federation for Home Economics.

Toni Scott
Counselor
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Toni Scott, Washburn University graduate in Human Services with an emphasis in addictions, is the newest member of Professional Treatment Services clinical team. Toni loves working with young adults and adolescents and is the current Program Director for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Topeka. Toni is a very caring counselor and has worked with many diverse individuals at the Topeka Rescue Mission’s Hope Center; The Villages, a family style group home in Topeka, and the Odyssey Group, a behavioral management program working with families inside their homes.

Toni’s work at Professional Treatment services includes individual, group, and family therapy primarily with our young adult addictions treatment tract. She also facilitates the Alcohol and Drug Information School the 2nd and 4th Saturdays each month.

Cliff Bond
Counselor/Chaplain

Chaplain Cliff Bond has worked with clients and families in the Kansas City and Topeka area since 1982 as a chaplain and counselor. Cliff graduated from Baker University in 1978 and completed his masters in Pastoral Care and Counseling at Emory University, Atlanta, in 1981. He completed an intern year in Clinical Pastoral Education in 1982 at Bethany Medical Center, Kansas City, KS. During his 22 years as staff chaplain at St. Francis Health Center in Topeka he worked with cancer patients, persons with addictions and their families, presented workshops on numerous topics and has been part of various in-services and grand rounds in the community. Currently he is the Chaplain in the Topeka Office of Hospice Care of Kansas. In his “real life” he lives with his wife Carol, with whom he enjoys going camping and being with their six grandchildren. He also does some occasional drag racing with his ‘89 Mustang.

Elliot Wessel
Information Technologist

Professional Treatment Services is very fortunate to have Elliot Wessel working as our computer talent. Elliot has been instrumental if setting up all of PTS’s billing, internet services, and office networking. Elliot was trained at Kaw Area Technical School and has over nine years experience as a computer analyst. Elliot’s hobbies include everything having to do with technology. He also enjoys gardening, cooking, and traveling.

Charlene Peacock
Counselor
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Charlene Peacock is a Washburn University graduate in Social Work with a minor in Addictions Treatment. She has been a member of Professional Treatment Services Clinical Team since November of 2007. Charlene enjoys working with people of all ages and backgrounds and employs a client-centered recovery perspective. At Professional Treatment Services her focus includes 4th time DUI clients; Outpatient and Intensive Outpatient group and individual therapy and Relapse Prevention Aftercare. Charlene is well-rounded in all levels of addiction's treatment as she also has three years of experience as a residential drug and alcohol counselor.

Her future goals include graduate clinical study at Kansas University with an emphasis on research and improvement of treatment protocols for co-morbid anxiety disorders and addiction.

Samantha Attkisson
Counselor Assistant
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Samantha Attkisson, Counselor Assistant, is currently a student at Washburn
University where she is enrolled in Human Services with an emphasis in
addictions. Samantha completed two internships at St. Francis Recovery
Center where she developed a strong interest in assessing and diagnosing
clients. Samantha's work at Professional Treatment Services includes
assessing and diagnosing, group and individual therapy as well as teaching
Alcohol Information School on the 4th Saturday of every month. Her future
academic goals include graduate Clinical Social Work at Kansas University in
Spring, 2009.

Kendall Heiman, LMSW, is a graduate of the University of Kansas Advanced Standing Masters of Social Work Program. Additionally, Kendall holds a BSW degree which she also earned at the University of Kansas and is an Addiction and Prevention Services credentialed counselor. As a graduate student Kendall worked as a research assistant for Dr. Catherine Crisp where she completed extensive research related to substance use disorders and addicted family dynamics.

Kendall completed her clinical internship at the Recovery Center at St. Francis in Topeka, Kansas where she developed a strong interest in working with children and families affected by chemical dependency and other compulsive behaviors. Prior to the Recovery Center’s closing in May of 2008, Kendall was primarily responsible for the family counseling component of that program. Kendall has an intimate understanding of the trauma that families experience during the active stages of addiction and she has focused her career on helping families to achieve recovery.

Kendall is well known for the passion, energy and humor that she infuses into her interactions with others as well as her ability to build rapport with resistant clients. At Professional Treatment Services, Kendall will be responsible for providing family and couples counseling, group and individual counseling, assessment and adolescent treatment services.