How to find Happiness when Holidays are Hard with Marriage and Family Counselor, Ken Curtis

Born in 1947, In 1995 Ken retired from his first career as a paralegal in the United States Air Force at Mountain Home Air Force Base.  One of the last criminal justice cases he worked on inspired him to choose counseling as a second career.  A fellow who attended his church lost his temper with a two-year old son and hit him so hard it killed him.  The mother of this fellow testified in court and showed pictures of his son's injuries when his father lost his temper and threw his so hard his head went through a wall.  

 

After graduating from Boise State University as a Social Worker, Ken started his counseling career at Idaho's maximum-security prison in 2000.  He likes to say for 23 years he helped put men in prison and then for 10 years he helped them get out of prison.  The heartbreaking family stories told by many inmates inspired Ken to earn a Master's Degree in Marriage and Family Counseling in 2011 from Northwest Nazarene University.  He believes that helping families be more functional is the best way to prevent men from going to prison. He is now mostly retired doing some consulting speaking such as an occasional pod cast.

 

He celebrated 50 years of marriage this year.  He has 5 children, 17 grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.