Background in brief:

  • Bachelor of Arts and Sciences: University of Dayton, Ohio

  • Certificate of Completion: painting major, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

  • Art instructor: St. John’s College, Santa Fe and New Mexico State Penitentiary with Project Newgate

  • Award winning studio artist at Goggleworks Art Center, Reading, PA 2011-18

  • Chairman of art selection committee, Goggleworks Center 2015-17

  • self-employed as cult behavior consultant and interventionist since mid-1980s

  • Life Achievement Award from International Cultic Studies Association in 2016

  • Book Review Consultant for ICSA

  • Primary therapist for recovery house for substance abuse and addiction, 2000.

  • Crisis interventionist at a psychiatric emergency hospital (retired in 2025 after 26 years)

  • Certified 988 National Lifeline crisis counselor

  • Relocated to Santa Fe, NM in July 2025.

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Website: www.cultbehaviorconsultant.com