December 13, 2016, I retired after thirty years of teaching the Certified  Addiction Counselor Classes.

During those thirty years, I taught at many places, Addiction Schools, colleges, Native American reservations, hospitals, Training programs, prisons, community corrections programs, mental health centers and seventeen years at Odyssey Training Program. It was a wonderful thirty years that flew by quickly.  During those years I taught thousands of students, mentored many counselors, traveled many miles and created several lifetimes of memories.   I became an addiction counselor as a way of giving back for my own healing.  I have received much more than I gave.

CAC training is managed and approved by the Office of Behavioral Health in Colorado.  During my thirty years, I served on the Colorado Addiction Professionals board as well as the Colorado Counselor Training Committee.

People often ask me which of the fifteen classes I taught I enjoyed the most and there are two.  The pleasure of preparing to and teaching the Native American Substance Abuse Issues class gave me an opportunity to meet and work with many Native American people from several tribes and to do some consulting for some of those tribes.  For sure that is a favorite.  The other is Clinical Supervision.  The current knowledge about good supervision improving and industry caused me to strive to teach models of supervision that work in the everyday world.  Good supervision improves care for clients.

I feel very good about the contribution I made to the Addiction Industry and the many people who achieved their certification as a result of my teaching

I have moved into alternative health care as a Reiki Master Teacher and Cherokee Body Work Teacher.

I have wonderful memories of my days as an instructor for the Colorado Addiction counselor Program.