I had ten years free from alcohol on 9/20/24 and developed an extensive Psychoeducation, Life Skills, and Substance Abuse curriculum over three-plus years working in different inpatient/outpatient/high school programs in various roles.

I earned my Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor certification in July 2024 and have been practicing meditation for over six years, providing individual and group sessions for over three years.

During sessions, we go for hikes in the woods with my trained therapy and service dog, meditate in the forest, and talk recovery, inner child, reasons behind the avoidance of uncomfortable phenomena, root cause of behavior patterns and existing belief systems, and how past trauma affects current response and reaction, amongst other things.

We have fun and tell jokes, too.

Group sessions consist of biofeedback activities, loving kindness meditation, Tibetan Buddhist chanting, and facilitated discussion. Zen, the therapy dog, comes with too unless somebody is allergic.