Groups that have hosted Writing in Recovery™ workshops:
•Betty Ford Center at Rancho Mirage, California
•Education, Health & Psychology Departments of Terminal Island, FCI
•Visions Residential and Outpatient
•Department of Medical Education, Maine Medical Center
•Smith College
•Promises Westside & Malibu

Policies
All sessions are in Pacific Palisades or via telephone. Instruction with Laura Trice, M.D. is an educational service, not psychotherapy or medicine.
Payments must be in the form of money orders, bank checks or made out to Laura Trice, MD or via PayPal.

Dr. Laura Trice
Laura Trice, M.D. developed the Writing in Recovery™ system that combines creative writing, musical _expression, public speaking and 12-step based therapeutic writing techniques. A published writer, Dr. Trice is a graduate of Smith College and The University of Vermont’s College of Medicine. She trained in Chicago, Indonesia, Maine and New York. Laura has facilitated programs with Federal inmates, Medical Students individuals, as well as private and academic groups on both coasts. Her programs have been honored by Smith College and have received Federal recognition by FCI Terminal Island. Writing in Recovery™ has been part of Promises’ and Visions residential, day patient, outpatient, extended care, staff training and individual referral programs. Most recently, Dr. Trice was chosen as one of Betty Ford’s 10 speakers for their 2006 Awareness Hours featuring the latest breakthroughs in Addiction Recovery. Laura Trice, M.D. is the author of How to Work Any 12-Step Program, a simple step by step over view of how 12-Steps works and the science that supports the 12-step approach. Her area of interest is forgiveness and journaling. She studies the forgiveness research gathered and funded by A Campaign for Forgiveness led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Everett L. Worthington, Jr., Ph.D., Ruby Bridges Hall, Robert Coles, M.D. and endorsed by President Jimmy Carter. She also focuses on the writing research done by James Pennebaker, Ph.D., Joshua Smythe, Ph.D. and Stephen Lepore, Ph.D. Dr. Trice also studies, respects and admires the leaders who bring all the components together, such as Dean Ornish, M.D., Bernie Seigel, M.D., Christiane Northrup, M.D., Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Louise Hay. Dr. Trice resides in Venice, California and enjoys gymnastics, singing and tennis.