About Me
I am a Reality
Coach™. After receiving two undergraduate degrees from
the University of South Florida (one in Psychology
and one in Communication)
I worked with at-risk kids then moved to New England to work as
Substance Abuse Counselor / Outward Bound Instructor.
(I had hiked the Appalachian
Trail by myself a few years earlier so the opportunity to be
in the wilderness and get paid was a dream-come-true).
Working with Outward Bound and other wilderness / adventure
schools was great and it was here that I honed my abilities to
help people tap into more then they thought they had. It was
here that I really learned to coach.
After a few years of working wilderness courses from
Florida-to-Oregon I entered graduate school where I earned a
degree in Management.
Along the way I achieved certification
and faculty status with the
William Glasser Institute. Glasser's techniques and Choice
Theory help people identify what they really want and develop more
effective ways to get it.
I returned to Outward Bound for a short time as the Assistant
Program Director of an Urban
Center in Boston with the focus of developing therapeutic
health programs. The pull of what had become my home was
great however and I eventually returned to the country to work in
Vermont.
I started working in a substance abuse treatment program
through the Vermont
Department of Corrections, called ISAP, and was eventually
promoted to Program Director. While working in the ISAP
Program, I was the architect of a consistent treatment
design which I implemented statewide at nine sites.
During this time I began to teach courses ranging from
Management Information Systems to Intro to Substance Abuse
Treatment to Concepts of PC Hardware at the Community
College of Vermont.
Along the way I started 3 businesses:
ClinicalSupervision.biz, LLC (expanding supervision to coaching), Willoughby
Forest, LLC (focused on timber and agri-forest products)
and True Azimuth,
LLC (providing coaching, personal assessments, training and
adventure-based workshops).
I am a Vermont
Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor, a Vermont
Certified Clinical Supervisor, a New
Hampshire Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor and a New
Hampshire Licensed Clinical Supervisor. I have been
involved with the credentialing authorities of both states:
I am a former vice chair (and former webmaster) of the Vermont
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor Certification Board and I am
on the Peer Review Committee of the New Hampshire Licensing Board.
Community service is a cornerstone of my life focus. I
have been active in the past few years in my local community by
serving as the vice-chair of the West Fairlee Conservation
Commission. I volunteer with the West Fairlee Fire
Department and serve the Town of West Fairlee Vermont who elected
me as a Town Lister.
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