Kathy Willis, PhD

Dr. Willis is currently working with Brad Lamm’s Intervention Specialists as the Director of Family Care, working with the families of people who have gone to treatment on a weekly basis. Dr. Willis has been working in field of addiction for the past 32 years. She has been an educator, teaching in addiction studies at the University of California at Davis, and in the Employee Assistance Professional summer school for the University of Nevada, as well as being a guest speaker at several national conferences. She has worked as an Employee Assistance Professional with businesses, an interventionist, a counselor, an educator and has worked with several treatment programs. She is the former Executive President of the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Counselors (CAADAC), was Chair of the Women and Addiction Committee for the National Association (NAADAC) as well as serving on the executive board of this body. She has worked as the Community Education Director for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Addiction in San Francisco, CA, and has started several treatment programs in Northern California and Southern California. She has also written a training manual for addiction counselors on Facilitation Skills.