FOR EMPLOYERS & HR
For Employers and HR
I work with employers, and where appropriate the family, to plan a structured conversation with a senior employee whose substance use is affecting the business. I coordinate treatment placement so there is a next step ready. This sits alongside your own HR and legal process rather than replacing it.
Contact Us →The position employers face
The position employers usually find themselves in
Definition
A workplace intervention is a planned, prepared conversation with a person whose substance use is affecting their work, and a coordinated route into treatment so a yes can be acted on the same day.
Performance has slipped in a way that is noticeable but hard to document. Colleagues have started covering. Nobody wants to be the person who raises it. By the time HR is formally involved, the options have usually narrowed to process. That is late, and it is expensive in every sense.
Discretion
Discretion, which is usually the first question
Senior people have professional exposure, and that concern is legitimate rather than something to talk them out of. Arrangements can be made so that only the people who genuinely need to be involved are involved.
Every conversation with me is confidential. What happens inside your organisation is governed by your own policies. I coordinate around them.
What this is not
What this is, and what this is not
This is not a disciplinary process, a fitness for duty evaluation, or a legal assessment. It sits alongside those and should not replace advice from your own employment counsel.
I do not diagnose, and I do not deliver clinical treatment. Employment law, ADA, FMLA and fitness for duty are the domain of your own counsel. I coordinate placement and preparation, and I stay in my lane on the rest.
Why Us
Why families and clinicians choose to work with me
CADC-III
Credentialed
I hold the Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor III credential (Sober College), one of the highest-level counseling credentials in California.
CCMI-M
Intervention-specific
I also hold the Certified Case Manager Interventionist credential (Breining Institute), the dedicated intervention-methodology credential. The strongest practitioners hold both.
2 Models
Matched to your family
I work in both the Johnson Model and the Invitational Model, and recommend the one that actually fits your family’s situation.
The first call
What to expect when you call
The first call is a confidential conversation about what is happening at work and what your options look like, before you decide anything. I will ask about the person, the role, the pattern, and what has already been tried inside the organisation.
By the end of that call you will have a clear sense of whether an intervention fits, what that would look like practically, and what to line up with your own counsel before proceeding.
If someone you love is in immediate danger, call 911. If they are talking about not wanting to be here, call or text 988. Los Angeles County residents can reach the Department of Mental Health ACCESS line on 800-854-7771.
Talk With Me
Talk with me in confidence
Call 866-826-0985 or email info@lifestyleinterventions.com to start a confidential conversation.
Frequently Asked
Frequently asked questions
Can an employer require treatment?
That is a legal question for your own counsel, and the answer depends on your jurisdiction, your policies and the role. I can tell you what an intervention can practically do, and how it fits alongside your own process.
Does the family have to be involved?
Not always. Sometimes the most effective room includes colleagues rather than relatives. We decide that during planning.
What if they refuse?
Refusal is common and rarely final. What matters most is what the organisation does consistently afterwards.
Is this confidential?
Conversations with me are confidential. What happens inside your organisation is governed by your own policies.
Do you work with companies outside Los Angeles?
Yes, travelling where that is the right approach and coordinating remotely where it is not.