My Credentials

On February 11, 1999, I met Jesus and surrendered my life to Him. On that day, I was Born Again (John 3: 3) and became a New Creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 17). Also on that day, in that moment, I was delivered from the power of alcoholism over my life. This started my new journey on my new path, laid out before me by my Heavenly Father. I share this because my coaching will be centered on Jesus Christ. It will be guided by Holy Spirit, and will honor God and you, first and foremost. I will use the skills I’ve developed since that time to help people who are suffering.

In October 2000, I became a Licensed Addiction Counselor in the state of North Dakota. Since that time, I have been actively engaged in counseling 1000s of people in their attempts to overcome their addictions. I have worked with men and women, ages 12 to 80+ years old. I have conducted group counseling sessions, individual sessions, and have assessed many to determine what areas of their lives have been impacted and have led them to living a life in addiction. I have worked side by side with families, parents, judges, employers, and teachers. I have collaborated with many counselors, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and probation officers.

I have been tasked to help build treatment programs for adolescents from scratch, been assigned to be part of the team to launch an adolescent drug court program, given the privilege to train other upcoming drug court programs and been entrusted to supervise the addiction program in a local hospital setting. Over the last half of my life, I have been a member of a treatment team on an inpatient mental health unit, a member of a children and families treatment unit, facilitated parenting classes for those required by social services, and for the last year have been part of building an outpatient treatment program for a private treatment program with a sober living component. God has blessed me with many opportunities.

In the state of North Dakota, it is the responsibility of Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselors to train college graduates who have finished their course work to become addiction counselors and need to complete a six-to-nine-month training practicum. It is our responsibility to assess and determine if these students have the needed qualifications to become Licensed Addiction Counselors. I have been blessed with this privilege for over 20 years, helping prepare the future of the addiction counseling field for years to come.

I am taking these years of learning, application, and firsthand personal growth in becoming a skilled helper, a skilled practitioner. I am now ready to step into individually coach people who have undiscovered blind spots in their lives that are keeping them trapped in confusion, shame, and self-doubt…even when they appear to have success in their lives. Many successful people are still stuck in beliefs, lessons, and ideologies that have settled deep into their consciousness and still dictate how they believe they are perceived by others. By having this perception, they struggle far more than they need to struggle. If this is you, I am skilled, trained, and capable to help you overcome.

Guides To My Path

The Bible, the Holy Word of God
Bachelors of Arts in Addiction Studies 1999
ND Board of Addiction Counselor Examiners
Alive and Free Coach Launch

A little story from A.W. Tozer:
“God does what He does by wisdom and power and love, and there is no less wisdom, no less power, no less love now than there ever was.  This is hard for us to understand because we cannot see it. We must believe, and believing is a kind of seeing, but of course it’s not the same as physically seeing something. I heard a man preach a sermon years ago, who said that the Christian has three men inside of him: the old man, the new man, and the human. The old man is what he is until he is converted; then he becomes the new man in Christ. But all along, there is the human. The human is your genes and personality and what makes you, you. We never lose that part of us, and it can get us in trouble. Long after you have gotten the victory over the old man, the human can still mess with you. That is the part that gets carnally happy about things, and also carnally gloomy. The old man has to die in order to live in the power of the new man, and the new man keeps the human somewhat under control. It’s the human in us that has trouble believing sometimes.”