Ryan Dusick Email & Phone Number

Ryan Dusick is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, the founding drummer of the world’s most popular band Maroon 5, a mental health advocate, and an author. His life has been a long and winding road from aspiring pop-star with anxiety, to heartbroken alcoholic, to thriving mental health survivor and messenger of hope in recovery.Ryan grew up right in the middle of Los Angeles, California, at the intersection of Hollywood and real life, and his journey of inspiration, devastation, and redemption has been a series of crossroads. As a boy, he dreamt of pitching for the Dodgers and writing novels, but arm injuries sidelined his burgeoning baseball career just as rock music became his new passion and purpose. Founding the group Kara’s Flowers in 1994 with fellow Brentwood High School students Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, and Mickey Madden, Ryan and his bandmates worked tirelessly for a decade before the group changed its name to Maroon 5 and finally had its first hit album Songs About Jane. Multiple hit songs, two Grammy Awards, and 20 million albums sold later, Ryan found himself suffering and without direction when his career as a performer came to an end just as it was taking off.After years of struggling with physical and mental health challenges, Ryan finally overcame in 2016, when he began his journey of recovery, culminating in a new life path full of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment. While earning his master’s degree in clinical psychology at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology, he decided it was time to write his story, in hopes of helping others who might see themselves in his personal struggles. Now working as a mental health professional at the Missing Peace Center for Anxiety in Agoura Hills, California, and beginning his new journey as an author and advocate, Ryan is spreading the message that recovery is possible, and some astounding things can come with it.