What Sobriety Doesn't Erase with Paul Booth

Ojai: Talk of the Town · Oct 8, 2026 · 1h 13m

Paul Booth has been sober for 42 years. But sobriety, he says, solved the drinking problem — not everything that lay beneath it.

Paul is an Ojai writer, licensed family therapist and nationally certified Master Addiction Counselor who spent more than 35 years working in mental health and addiction. His clients included doctors, attorneys and other accomplished professionals whose lives appeared successful while addiction and private anguish threatened to undo them.

His understanding of that hidden pain began in childhood. Paul’s mother struggled with alcoholism and eventually died by suicide…