Drug Detox at its Finest

Michele has been a licensed social worker for 31 years and has worked in Administrative Management for the last 20 years. She has been the Clinical Director in a free standing psychiatric hospital, an Intensive Outpatient facility for the dually diagnosed, a chemical dependency residential care treatment facility, and the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Treatment Program in the New York State Department of Corrections. Michele was born and raised in New York, moved to St. Petersburg, Florida where she resided with her family for 15 years, and made the move to sunny California in 2018 traveling across the country with her husband, their son, her two cats, and her dog. Michele graduated with honors from Dominican University with her bachelors degree in Social Work where her research project was replicated in Rockland County, New York that addressed the impact of alcoholism on child abuse and neglect after interning at Rockland County Child Protective Services. She graduated with Honors from Fordham University Advanced Standing Masters Degree Program where she earned her masters degree in clinical social work. Michele’s passion has always been working with the chemically dependent population and her favorite thing is to provide lectures on the Disease Concept of Chemical Dependency and Step One. She has strong faith in her Higher Power and a deep seated spirituality. Her care, compassion, and dedication to the population she serves coupled with her sense of humor and her ability to “break it down” in a way the clients can relate allows her to make connections easily. While she strives to provide the clients with the best possible footing to go out and “slay their monster” into remission, she understands that relapse happens and she welcomes them back with open arms in a nonjudgmental manner. Michele believes in the resiliency of the human spirit, the love of the recovery community, and the blessings of sobriety.