We are a provider of community-based educational services for offender education and court-ordered classes. We endeavor to provide educational services which are engaging, interesting to our clients, and which help to bring about genuine change. We offer both 16 week and 52 week anger management classes. We are also a qualified DOT SAP provider. We provide DOT employees who have violated DOT substance abuse regulations with a Substance Abuse Professional (SAP) evaluations in order to facilitate the return to duty process.

Beginning as a counselor in 1985, he has helped many people begin and sustain their recovery. He has worked as a counselor at the Saint John’s Hospital Chemical Dependency Center in Santa Monica, the New Beginnings program at Ojai Valley Community Hospital and the Vista Del Mar Hospital Addiction Medicine Unit in Ventura. Since 1993, Marty has been the Program Director of the Genesis Program, an outpatient treatment facility he co-founded, with locations in Ventura and Thousand Oaks. Marty continues in this role as well as a private counseling practice at Coastline Christian Counseling. Areas of specialty are addiction, codependency and relapse prevention. He treats both adults and adolescents. He works with both the chemically dependent and their families. Over the years Marty has done many chemical dependency assessments for the courts, often as part of divorce proceedings involving child custody. He is credentialed to do assessments for the Department of Transportation, making treatment recommendations and establishing return-to-duty criteria for workers in safety-sensitive positions. Elected to the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame in 2012, Marty was an all-CIF basketball player at Ventura High School and Channel League Player of the Year. A two year all-Conference selection at Brigham Young University, Marty excels at working with athletes on issues of entitlement, expectations, and disappointments — part of the adjustments to the loss of privilege as an athletic career comes to an end. Marty is a recovering person himself. He brings to his counseling not only his professional training, but also the experience of walking out his own recovery one day at a time. He helps his clients to gain a complete perspective on their recovery, addressing body, soul and spirit. He emphasizes the development of therapeutic relationships – with God, with self and with others.

New Life Recovery & Counseling conduct SAP services a face-to-face evaluation and assessment to determine the level of care needed to resolve the alcohol and/or drug problem.

A Spiritual Paradigm provides guidance, mentoring, and teaches women and men how to create a plan for change that fits her/his lifestyle. For those in early recovery from substance or other addictions developing a recovery and relapse plan is paramount to remaining abstinent and changing an entire lifestyle. A Spiritual Paradigm offers Reiki sessions to assist in healing the body, mind, and clearing energy. You are the healer, the source is the Divine, I am the channel. Reiki is relaxing, clearing, healing, energizing (in a subtle way), and a great tool for clearing the life path. My name is Connie Kirkpatrick, I am an ordained minister, non-denominational. Credentials include a Masters Science Psychology, Masters Science Spiritual Leadership, Kundalini/Practical Reiki Master Teacher Certi