Counseling Awareness Month 2025 | Meet Max, Cascadia Health Addiction & Recovery Counselor
As we reflect on Counseling Awareness Month, we take a moment to highlight the remarkable counseling staff at Cascadia Health.
Did you know around 40% of Cascadia staff are counselors? We are grateful for our residential counselors, crisis counselors, and counselors working in our health centers, and the amazing work they do!
Counseling Awareness Month is celebrated annually in April across the nation and promoted by the American Counseling Association (ACA), recognizing those trained professionals “who walk with the client without judgement to wherever they see their destination to be. And, along the way, provide different alternatives to help the client move past the obstacles they face.”
Let’s join together as a community, helping spread awareness about counseling throughout our whole community, and acknowledge the pivotal role that Cascadia’s counselors play in bringing integrated care to our community.
Profile: Meet Max Graviano, Addiction & Recovery Counselor
We invited Cascadia Health’s counselors to share a short Mission Moment: a reflection on what counseling means to them, why they chose this field, a rewarding experience, or why self-care for counselors is important. Max’s responses:
I am Max, a substance use counselor at Cascadia Health, and I am in recovery from substance abuse and severe mental health issues.
Despite facing a tumultuous journey, I found a way to push forward and remain resilient, taking small steps at a time. Each time I took a step, I hit a new milestone for something that I never thought I would be capable of doing or accomplishing.
I don’t believe that I would have made it here without the professionals who supported and guided me. They made me feel understood and supported no matter where I was, and it motivated me to want to do the same one day.