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ABOUT GEORGE ADAMS

George Howard Adams was born in 1948 and grew up in the small communities in far Northern California.  Following graduation from high school in 1966, he entered the Marine Corp and was soon serving as a rifleman in Vietnam.  He sustained a gun shot wound in the thigh in September of 1967 and was wounded again, more seriously this time, in April of 1968.  After months of recovery and several surgeries, he left the Marines and joined the hoards of other veterans returning to school.  After graduation from California State University in Sacramento in 1973, he began his career with the Siskiyou County Mental Health Department in Yreka, California.  He worked as a Psychiatric Social Worker and earned a Masters degree in Counseling in 1977.  In 1982 he earned a Doctorate in Psychology from the University of San Francisco and left his position as the director of the Mt. Shasta mental health facility to take a position as the director of a Veterans Administration outpatient mental health service in Sacramento, California.  There he earned his MBA and became involved with the legislature becoming a capable lobbyist for legislation serving veterans.  An unfortunate motorcycle accident derailed opportunities to work more closely with the legislature and while in his recovery, he decided to put his full attention on his practice, which was then demanding his full attention. 

Dr. Adams currently has a successful counseling practice in Fair Oaks, California where he specializes in men’s social, professional and family issues.  He noticed some time ago that the majority of men contacting him had no mental disorder and, instead, sought some straight and meaningful conversation about practical solutions to relational problems.  Coaching more precisely describes his work with most of the men he sees and though psychotherapy and working with mental disorders is awkward and uncomfortable over the telephone, Coaching lends itself very well to telephone conversations.  He continues with his counseling practice but, he prefers to work with men not suffering from a mental disorder so he spends more and more time these days at his coaching practice.

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