Leadem Counseling & Consulting Services

Specialties

Leadem Counseling & Consulting Services, PC is a professional corporation that provides counseling services that address a wide variety of social and emotional challenges.

Our staff of highly trained licensed professionals provides individual, group, family counseling and couple’s counseling through the use of face-​to-​face, email counseling, and other online counseling modalities such as video conferencing and instant messaging. We provide marriage counseling, family counseling, children counseling, adolescents counseling, love and sex addiction counseling, alcohol addiction counseling, food addiction counseling, co-​dependency and co-​sex addiction counseling, and intervention training for families of individuals suffering with addictive disorders.

Additionally our counselors offer consulting services to provide professionals both regional and site-​based professional training programs in a wide array of topics of interest to addiction treatment professionals.

History

Established in 1985.

John Leadem, LCSW and Elaine Leadem, LCSW have been bringing hope to individuals and couples for 75 years (collectively). Together they have authored their book «One in the Spirit» which is based on the couples work they have developed as a therapeutic model for increasing emotional intimacy in relationships.

Based on their treatment methods, John and Elaine have co-​founded Leadem Counseling and Consulting Services with one location in Toms River, NJ and another in East Brunswick, NJ. Leadem Counseling now offers a full treatment team of six seasoned therapists who specialize in all mental health, relationship and addictive disorders.

All therapists on staff are Licensed in the State of New Jersey and highly trained in the treating all mental health, relationship and/​or addictive disorders. All have or are in the process of finalizing their specialized CSAT certifications from the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals together with Dr. Patrick Carnes, PhD.

Meet the Business Owner

John and Elaine L.

Business Owner

John & Elaine Leadem are trailblazers in the field of couples counseling. Having entered the 12-​step communities at a relatively young age they originally incorporated into their marriage a traditional 12-​step philosophy that teaches to «stay out of each others program.» In this model they continued to hide behind personal recovery in ways that undermined intimacy and eventually led to more heartache and betrayal.

Close to 40 years ago they took their collective success at using 12 step principles and began to apply these principles into their own relationship and thus began their journey of working recovery and intimacy with each other as a team. They took their success and introduced to their clients what has endearingly become referred to by those clients as working a «Shared Program of Recovery». Not worrying about challenging a tradition that did not work for them, John & Elaine continue to bring hope and strength to the multitudes of couples they see and help daily.