Intensive Recovery
I’ve been where you are. I found a way out. I’ll walk it with you.
If you’re reading this, you or someone you love is suffering. I know that suffering from the inside.
In 2019 I went to treatment. Before that, I lived through things I can barely put into words — addiction to heroin, homelessness, more hell than I knew a person could survive. I’m not telling you this to shock you. I’m telling you because I want you to know that the person offering to help has actually been in the hole, and actually found the way out. I’m in long-term recovery now. I work the steps, I sponsor other men, and I’ve built my life around being of service to people walking the road I walked.
Why willpower was never the problem
For a long time I believed I was weak. That if I just wanted it badly enough, tried hard enough, I’d stop. That’s the lie at the center of addiction — and it keeps people trapped in shame for years.
Here’s what I understand now, and what shapes everything I do: addiction isn’t a failure of willpower. It’s what a nervous system does when it’s been in pain, fear, or disconnection for too long. The using is the body’s desperate attempt to find relief, to feel safe, to come back to some kind of okay — even for a moment. You can’t shame or willpower your way out of that. You heal it by slowly teaching the nervous system another way to feel safe: through connection, honesty, community, and learning to be in your own body without needing to escape it.
That’s what recovery really is. Not white-knuckling. Coming home to yourself.
What the program is
This isn’t an hour a week. Recovery in the early stretch needs more than that, so the Intensive Recovery Program is built to wrap around your actual life:
Multiple sessions each week — we meet two times a week one-on-one. One session in my office, and one in your own home or virtually, so the work reaches into the places where real life actually happens.
Working the steps — I’ll walk the steps with you as someone who has worked them myself, not from a textbook.
Real connection to community — I help you plug into the recovery community, because no one stays well alone. Connection is the opposite of addiction.
Honest accountability — drug and alcohol testing is part of the process, not as punishment, but as a structure of honesty we build together.
Family therapy and involvement — addiction is never just one person’s struggle; it lives in the whole family system. I work with families directly, helping everyone heal, understand, and learn how to support recovery rather than unintentionally feed the cycle.
For families
If you’re a parent, partner, or loved one looking for help for someone you care about — exhausted, scared, and tired of programs that haven’t worked — you’re exactly who this is for too.
This is something different. It’s intensive, it’s personal, it’s grounded in lived experience, and it brings the whole family into the healing rather than leaving you on the outside watching. You don’t have to carry this alone either.
Reach out
Whether you’re the one suffering or the one loving someone who is — there’s a way through, and you don’t have to find it by yourself. I’d be honored to talk with you.