Michael began his studies in psychology in the U.S. and continues here in Prague at the University of New York. He is a certified recovery coach for addiction and addiction interventions and also completed SMART Recovery facilitation training. Michael completed the 5 year, self-experience psychotherapy training at SUR. In his practice, he emphasizes the sharing of personal experiences – he himself has 17 years of uninterrupted abstinence from addictive substances. He has been working at the Addiction Clinic of the NEO Center since the conception in 2017.