Paul Tessein

Paul is skilled and highly successful in the field of interventions. His credentials include Nationally Certified Master Interventionist, Certified Recovery Coach, Relapse Recovery Specialist and Certified K9 Handler. On March 20, 2017 Paul reached another milestone in his personal recovery, celebrating 30 years free from alcohol and drugs. After sobering up, Tessein became a certified interventionist and started his own treatment center, Recovery Advocates of America, on Route 33. While in that business, Tessein met the actual love of his life, his wife, Bella. She had been a fashion buyer who “stumbled into” a career of helping counsel addicts and started her own sober living facility with a friend in Florida, he says. Tessein by this point was living and working in Florida himself, where he had started a Recovery Advocates treatment center. Tessein eventually sold RAA, and today he and Bella operate Drug Sweeper from Florida. While she runs the company’s day-to-day doings, his part in the business involves a hefty dose of road time. Tessein drives around with his dog Yogi in the Drug Sweeper RV, up and down the East Coast, from Florida to Maine, and back.