THIS WEEK ON Grit & Grace Podcast, "Redemption and Restoration" with my special guest Richard Lynch.
Richard is a Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LCADC). He is a certified advanced grief counseling specialist, EMDR certified practitioner, a a QPR instructor (suicide prevention). Currently Richard is the AD of Programming in a 328 bed Department of Corrections substance abuse program. There he oversees the program and is also the clinical supervisor for their counselors. He operates a small private practice doing grief counseling with parents who have lost children to overdoses. Richard is also a lay minister and have operated “Spread the Word” since 2016. He's done sick calls and end of life visits, and 113 funerals for families who do not have a pastor. But most importantly, Richard knows Jesus. Richard's testimony from abuse as a child, battling addiction, doing time in prison to running a prison's substance abuse program is a story of redemption and restoration that only God can write.