Michele Downey is an Registered Nurse, Master Addictions Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Master Life Coach. She has had a private practise in Hollywood and Carlsbad, California specializing in families affected by Mood Disorders and Addictions since 1986. The daughter of an Air Force doctor, flight surgeon and a nurse anesthetist she started out in nursing and worked in pre-hospice as a young nurse. She was in the first CARE unit, alcohol treatment center, in Albuqerque, New Mexico. She now runs a Recovery Coaching school, teaching others how to help these kind of families.