Welcome, Ghobad Vermazani

Please join us in welcoming Ghobad Vermazani to the Healthy Acadia team! 

Ghobad joins us as a recovery coach through our Maine Recovery Core internship program. Recovery Core Interns offer direct peer support and advocacy to improve recovery success among individuals facing substance use disorders. Ghobad provides recovery coaching and recovery resource navigation in Hancock County through Healthy Acadia’s INSPIRE Recovery Center.

Ghobad, what prompted you to join the Healthy Acadia team?

Empowering people, organization to build healthy communities together.

What most inspires you about Healthy Acadia's work and your new role? 

Healthy Acadia allows recoverees to recover at their own pace, and honors all pathways to recovery.

What most inspires you on a personal level?

I like to minimize the power between recovery, authority and recoveree to deal with substance use disorder.

What is your favorite thing to do, or place to be, in Maine, and why?

Ocean , woods, Restaurant seafood, because I'm in the paradise. I'm enjoying life, because of my own recovery and love for my two children. My faith to help others - I have been humanistic - that is why working for Healthy Acadia serves my purpose.

Ghobad holds a BA in Clinical Psychology and Associate degree in Social Science.

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