Emergent Wellness Care Inc. was founded in 2019 by Mary Foley-Mayone, an MSW  with more than 20 years of direct service on the front lines of addiction work, along with her late husband Gary Mayone who was a professional percussionist and multi-instrumentalist.  Mary voiced seeing too many clients sentenced to prison terms because of their disease of chemical dependency.  She believed  alternative and highly structured  treatment modalities blended with theatrical-therapeutic approaches might offer these individuals a more restorative, qualitative recovery coupled with  cognitive and behavioral "restructuring-rehearsal" experiences.    EWC professionals have “lived experience” either directly or indirectly with the disease of chemical dependency and/or the destructive impact of the criminal legal system.  Our approach is as diverse as the people we serve. EWC staff understands first-hand how creative expression coupled with other forms of therapy, can be a viable tool in restoring wellness. This is the primary reason we think of ourselves as a theatrical-therapeutic company. 

We strictly adhere to the NASW Code of Ethics: 

  

"All social workers should aspire to the ethical principle that social workers challenge social injustice by pursuing social change with, and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people …. including a focus on poverty, employment and discrimination. "