John Stewart

Background

About John Stewart

John is Bethesda’s former Senior Addictions Counsellor and programme manager. Having thrived in recovery for 22 years, coming out of 20 years of addiction. As Founder and Director of The Fish Hoek Drug Crisis & Information Centre in Cape Town, John counselled individuals, advised families, visited and spoke to Churches and employers, and referred struggling addicts to various addictions treatment homes. For four years John ran FHDC & IC on his own, as a self-funding volunteer, before joining Colin and Deanna at the helm of Bethesda’s addiction treatment team just over six years ago. John has specialist certification in the areas of Case Management, Trauma, Motivational Interviewing, Family Counselling, Co-occurring Disorders, and CBT. John also shares of himself as ‘a survivor of childhood sexual abuse’ and offers similar victims the opportunity to experience the freedom he has found through some very powerful "Survivors of Abuse" group sessions (not for the feint hearted).