Steven W. Murphy LCDC, AADC

Steven W. Murphy has been in the chemical dependency field since 1979. Steve is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and an Advanced Addictions Counselor. His experience includes direct clinical and administrative functions in inpatient treatment centers, outpatient treatment programs, group practices, and corrections services. Steve has over 35 years of addiction counselor training, consulting, and counseling for adults, adolescents, impaired professionals, and criminal justice clients.

From 1979 until 1994, he worked at numerous chemical dependency treatment hospitals, inpatient programs, and community programs.

He owned Alamo Recovery Centers, Inc., which contracted with state and county criminal justice departments to provide outpatient services as an alternative to incarceration from 1994 until 2001. They opened three offices in San Antonio and 1 office in Boerne, which treated 250 clients per month.

From 1998 to 2002, he was the president of the Bexar County Treatment Coalition, an agency comprised of local inpatient and outpatient treatment programs focused on maintaining high-quality services to criminal justice clients.

From 2002 until 2005, Steve coordinated Celebrate Recovery, a Christian 12-step program that encompasses all forms of addiction. He was also the program director of Positive Recovery-San Antonio, which offers outpatient services based on the 12 steps and Christian counseling.

Steve is currently in private practice at Alamo City Treatment Services, providing outpatient chemical dependency services to adolescents and adults. He owns the Addiction Counselor Training School, a proprietary school that trains students to become licensed chemical dependency counselors.

He is also the author of Addicted to God and Recovery.