Marty Lythgoe, Substance Abuse Professional

Marty Lythgoe, CADC II, NCAC II, ICADC

Marty has worked in drug and alcohol treatment for over 25 years.

Beginning as a substance abuse professional in 1985, Marty Lythgoe has helped many people begin and sustain their recovery. He has worked as a counselor at the Saint John’s Hospital Chemical Dependency Center in Santa Monica, the New Beginnings program at Ojai Valley Community Hospital and the Vista Del Mar Hospital Addiction Medicine Unit in Ventura. Since 1993, Marty has been the Program Director of the Genesis Program, an outpatient treatment facility he co-founded, with locations in Ventura and Thousand Oaks. Marty continues in this role as well as a private alcohol and drug counseling practice at Coastline Christian Counseling.

Areas of specialty are alcohol and drug addiction, codependency and relapse prevention. He treats both adults and adolescents. He works with both the chemically dependent and their families.

Over the years Marty has done many chemical dependency assessments for the courts, often as part of divorce proceedings involving child custody. He is credentialed to do assessments for the Department of Transportation, making treatment recommendations and establishing return-to-duty criteria for workers in safety-sensitive positions.

Elected to the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame in 2012, Marty was an all-CIF basketball player at Ventura High School and Channel League Player of the Year. A two year all-Conference selection at Brigham Young University, Marty excels at working with athletes on issues of entitlement, expectations, and disappointments — part of the adjustments to the loss of privilege as an athletic career comes to an end.

Marty is a recovering person himself. He brings to his counseling not only his professional training, but also the experience of walking out his own recovery one day at a time. He helps his clients to gain a complete perspective on their recovery, addressing body, soul and spirit. He emphasizes the development of therapeutic relationships – with God, with self and with others.