Dr. Breazeale is a clinical psychologist who has worked in the field for over thirty years. He has developed and administered numerous mental health and substance-abuse programs, and has written extensively in the field of psychology.

Breazeale writes about the things he knows. He was born with a birth defect, the absence of a left hand, in the "Atomic City," Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where his parents lived and worked. He has worn a prosthetic hook most of his life. Having grown up in the South as a child with a disability, Dr. Breazeale has focused much of his clinical practice and writing on those with a disability and their families. He worked briefly for the United States Government. He and his wife adopted their daughter in Peru when she was three months old in the middle of a major offensive against the government by the Shining Path, a communist-supported terrorist group. Most of Dr. Breazeale's wife's family died in the Holocaust.

Dr. Breazeale has developed a number of training programs. Most recently, “Duct Tape Isn't Enough" focused on the attitudes and skills of resilience.

He is married and has one child. He lives and works in southern Maine.