My career began forty years ago as a chemical dependency counselor at the Cannon Valley Treatment Center in Cannon Falls, MN. The facility had a twenty bed adult unit as well as a sixty five bed adolescent unit. As the lead counselor on the adult unit my job description also included conducting evaluations and lectures on the adolescent unit. In 1985 my private practice began with providing interventions for both adults and adolescents. That practice continues today and includes recovery coaching.