As a Coach, I have maintained my keen sense of caring about others. I use many of my professional skills, but with a new focus. I now work with people who want to or are recovering from the ravages of addiction, who are seeking personal and professional growth and change, meaning and joy, with people who want to live in complimentary ways with complimentary others to sustain all that we are and want to be.

Coaching affords me the ability to work with the “coachable”; i.e. “normal people seeking change through recovery” and the luxury of referring the “clinically impaired” i.e. dual diagnosis patients to qualified licensed mental health professionals for psychotherapy.

Over the years, I founded or co-founded several health care related businesses including: The Center for Psychological Services, a multidiscipline outpatient mental health clinic; Rediscovery, an outpatient cocaine treatment program; Time For Me, Inc., a mind/body stress reduction clinic; and Residential Treatment Centers of America, an intense residential treatment facility for adolescents. I trained and supervised psychological interns and assistants and taught introductory psychology for the University of Phoenix. I have been a program director for the mentally ill homeless.

I earned my B.A. in psychology from Loyola College of Montreal, Canada, my M.A., in psychology, from The New School for Social Research in N.Y.C and my Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology – Fresno. I have also graduated from The Institute for Life Coach Training, trained with CoachVille and am a member of both The International Coaching Federation and The International Association of Coaches.