Bud has conducted all types of EAP training, including Senior Management Briefing, Supervisor Training and Employee Orientations. Other training experience includes Stress Management, Change Management and Violence in the Workplace for all levels of employees.

Marcia Eager, LCSW, CEAP, Program Coordinator
Marcia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has over ten years of experience with Solutions, providing EAP counseling, consultation to managers, stress management programs and various other training programs. She is a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP). She is also certified in Advanced Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) and has extensive experience providing CISM services. Her past experience as a Hospice Bereavement Coordinator and founder of The Exceptional Cancer Patient (ECaP) program with Dr. Bernie Siegel, makes her very skilled with Transition and Grief groups.

Marcia has conducted a wide variety of workshops from one to eight hours in length. Some of her favorites are: Right Brain/ Left Brain, Humor, Stress Management, Hypnosis and Relaxation Techniques, Change Management, Living with Life-threatening and Catastrophic Illness, Conflict Resolution, Spirit In The Workplace, Take Time for Your Life, EAP Supervisor Training, EAP Employee Orientations and Toxic Work.

Abby Anderson, M.S., LPC, CEAP,Program Coordinator
Abby is a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP) who holds a master’s degree in counseling and school psychology and is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). Abby has, in her twenty-five years of counseling, worked extensively with individuals experiencing a broad range of difficulties, including substance abuse, working in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She has been in the employee assistance field for ten years, providing assessment and counseling, and presenting a wide range of educational and training topics to many organizations and varied populations.

Abby has worked and trained in a variety of settings, from direct manufacturing facilities, law firms, municipalities, universities, corporate headquarters, hospitals, and community service offices. The types of training she has done include Stress Management, Burnout Prevention, Effective Communication, Male-Female Communication, Dealing with Difficult People, Substance Abuse Education, Conflict Management/Resolution, and Fighting Fair.

Vivien Bergl, LCSW, CEAP, Program Coordinator, Hartford Office
Serving Hartford Hospital and Connecticut Childrens Medical Center, Vivien brings eight years of EAP experience from The Travelers, Make It Work EAP and Shapiro Associates and is a nationally Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). Prior to her EAP positions, she worked for 10 years in outpatient mental health and child welfare. Vivien also has training and significant experience in Critical Incident Stress Debriefings.

Vivien has ten years of training experience in corporate, academic, manufacturing and healthcare settings. She also has academic teaching experience in human services and gerontology.

She has delivered a broad variety of topics, including Coping with Stress & Change, Bereavement, Conflict Resolution, Dealing with Difficult People, Effective Listening and Communication, Team Building, Caregiver Stress, Rape Prevention and EAP Supervisory Training.

Rebecca Harris, MS, LPC, CEAP, EAP Program Coordinator
Becky has ten years of experience at Solutions EAP and is a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). She is very skilled in all facets of EAP direct services, including management consultation and group work. She also has nine years of experience in Substance Abuse treatment.

Lucretia Klieback, MSW, LCSW, CISM, EAP Consultant
Lucretia is a Spanish speaking, Licensed Clinical Social Worker with extensive experience in Crisis Intervention, Group Work, Individual and Family Counseling. She has been with Solutions EAP for four years and also works at Connecticut Childrens Medical Center as a Social Worker in Intensive Care. She is certified in Critical Incident Stress Management.

Gwen has conducted a number of workshops for businesses, local PTOs and in healthcare settings on burnout, stress management, topics related to clinical syndromes such as depression, anxiety or personality disorder and on sexuality.

Kelly Huffman, MS, LPC, CEAP EAP Counselor, Middlesex Hospital EAP
Kelly has a Masters degree in Counseling, is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Certified Employee Assistance Professional. She has been in the employee assistance field for 20 years and has worked with a variety of organizations, including large corporations, hospitals, manufacturing companies, government and human service agencies. Her areas of clinical specialty are substance abuse, women’s issues, and grief/loss counseling. In addition to her counseling responsibilities, she has conducted numerous presentations on a wide range of topics such as Stress Management, Coping with Change, Sexual Harassment, Team Building, Substance Abuse, Effective Communication and Dealing with Difficult People.

Consultant Staff

D. Craig Newton, MSW, LCSW, BCD, Critical Incident Stress Management Trainer
Craig is a lecturer in both the departments of Medicine and Surgery in the Yale University School of Medicine. He has been involved in Critical Incident Stress Management since 1986. As a recognized ICISF instructor, Craig teaches both the basic CISM course and the Crisis Intervention/Peer Support Training. He has 20 years experience teaching and consulting on a variety of topics to Law Enforcement, Fire Service and the EMS community. Currently working as a Senior Clinical Social Worker at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Employee Assistance, he has past experience with the Emergency Department, Trauma Service and Child Inpatient Psychiatry.