About Us
Meet Our Executive Director
Andrew Bordt
Andrew Bordt holds a master's degree in Education and is a licensed teacher with certifications from Columbia University's Teacher's College and Cambridge. He is also a Certified Disney Trainer. With over 20 years of experience, Andrew is an expert facilitator, trainer, and curriculum designer. In 2021, he co-founded the Institute for the Advancement of Group Therapy to address a gap in clinical licensing courses regarding group delivery and dynamics. Too many group therapy sessions are conducted like individual therapy with multiple participants, resulting in disengagement and ineffectiveness. Andrew's mission is to revolutionize group therapy by emphasizing the practice of recovery skills, ensuring clinicians are equipped to facilitate impactful and engaging sessions.
Andrew Bordt
Our Mission
To advance the field of behavioral health by improving evidence-based training in group therapy settings thereby improving patient outcomes at schools, correctional facilities, private treatment programs, and government-funded behavioral health entities.
What We Do
We've trained over 1,000 clinicians to date. The Institute for the Advancement of Group Therapy engages a skilled team of clinicians and trainers to deliver highly effective trainings and ongoing supervision, which then enables individual clinicians to deliver engaging, effective therapeutic interventions in group settings.
As a result of our trainings, patient engagement and satisfaction grows significantly, leading to both better outcomes for the patients as well as increased referrals for the providers they work for. Because our program goes beyond the simple transfer of information to teaching the actual skills that patients need to use in the real world, patients have higher rates of success in recovery from addiction and behavioral health issues, which, in turn, leads to more referrals and even better contracts with insurance payers.
