Accredited Counseling and Intervention Services was founded with the awareness that an effective addiction treatment plan is essential to create real change.

I am conveniently located in Santa Clara County at 1190 Park Ave, San Jose, CA, 95126. I accompany clients and their families during fragile and crucial times while offering direct support as well as vast resources. I am available for consultations, and in-depth personalized assessments. I have spent years vetting the best treatment centers in the country to empower my clients to make informed and intelligent decisions on how to best begin a journey to health, well-being, and recovery in their lives.

Services

• Consultation --- to determine what's the first step, based on needs, wants, and what is feasible.
  • Assess the situation, define the scope of the problem, and devise an effective plan of action.
• Intervention --- when the struggling loved-one is currently not willing to accept treatment.
  • Education, Preparation, and Empowerment.
• Referrals --- to treatment programs in your area or across the country.
  • Out of some 14,000 treatment programs, identify a small selection that are accredited, high quality, accommodate needs, and budget.
• Counseling --- individual and families; teen and adult.
  • Alcohol and/or Drug abuse, Abstinence or Harm Reduction, Behavioral Issues, Life Coaching, Chronic Impulsivity, Chronic Relapse, Co-occurring Mental Health disorders, Coping Skills, Family Conflict, Gambling, Addiction-Free Pain Management, Relationship Issues, Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence, Sexual Addiction, Sex Offender, Spirituality, Trauma - PTSD, and Wellness.
• Group Counseling --- up to 7 clients in a 60 minute supportive session.
  • Group is a therapy format that approaches issues of personal growth through the use of interpersonal interaction – to interact with others to identify and understand our maladaptive patterns and how to change them.
• Recovery Coaching
  • Coaching is a distinct service and differs greatly from psychotherapy. Individuals who engage in a coaching relationship can expect to experience fresh perspectives on personal challenges and opportunities, enhanced thinking and decision-making skills, enhanced interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence in carrying out their chosen work and life roles. Coaching is also a partnership between coach and client. The partnership's foundation is one of trust, confidentiality, creativity, integrity, wisdom and professionalism. The relationship is deep, rich, collaborative, compassionate and validating. Professional coaches are trained to help individuals define goals most important to them, and be accountable to those goals. A Recovery Coach helps facilitate the action steps that are necessary to remain sober and live life, as well as support the addict/alcoholic in challenges that come up in everyday activities.

Addiction is a family disease, so every addict and their family deserve recovery, healing, and to restore family relationships. ACIS invites the addicted person and their families to embrace hope, possibilities, a lifestyle of recovery, and an opportunity to restore relational discord. My goal is to educate and provide treatment through a continuum of care for the entire family. My commitment is to doing whatever it takes to restore your family by providing uniquely tailored recovery solutions. I enjoy a 85% intervention success rate and most of my business is by referral. Success is measured for those clients who follow through on their treatment plan, and achieve a year of sobriety.

Treatment for addiction doesn't need to be approached alone, I would be happy to stand by your side. Simply call Accredited Counseling and Intervention Services.

 

ACIS strives to provide quality care for all its clients. There are groups of clients whose particular circumstances can contribute to their struggle with addiction, and an understanding of these circumstances is needed, for example:

• Women - Although both men and women succumb to addiction at roughly the same rate, women face specific challenges for themselves and their loved-ones. Cultural differences can create a perception that, for example, alcohol abuse is acceptable and expected for men, but inadmissible for women. In such situations, women may attempt to hide their struggle with substance abuse until exposed, for example, by a DUI citation. Women are also deeply impacted by a loved-one's struggle with addiction; either a spouse, parent, child, or grandchild. Trying to keep the family functioning in the presence of addiction, they may find themselves inadvertently enabling the addiction. They may be the first to notice that a child's behavior, or mood has suddenly changed without explanation. It is important for a counselor to appreciate the challenges of addiction facing women, either for themselves or a loved-one.
• LGBT - Like other minorities facing discrimination, people have resorted to substance abuse in order to relieve the pain and injury of prejudice and imposed self-hatred. While times are changing in this regard, and people are becoming aware of the sponsors of prejudice, and that they don't need to subscribe to their beliefs, there is still much work to be done to embrace diversity, and to celebrate our differences rather than fear them. Furthermore, LGBT people often don't have support structures in place to assist them should they veer off into the despair of substance abuse. A counselor must be sensitive to particular circumstances surrounding the struggle with addiction within this community.
• Minorities - Similarly to the LGBT community, many minorities are vulnerable to the harsh effects of prejudice and discrimination, and the pain and negative self-perception that it can bring along.  Here too, substance abuse can be an attempt to dull the pain of not "fitting in". While it is impossible for one counselor to be knowledgeable about all cultures, he or she must be willing to learn about clients' backgrounds in order to better appreciate their struggles with addiction.
• Veterans - People subjected to the theater of war are often scarred by their exposure and experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) thereafter. Substance abuse can be an attempt to self-medicate PTSD in order to alleviate the pain of constantly reliving awful memories. A counselor must be aware of ongoing research on PTSD to ensure the best treatment for those drawn into addiction because of it.
• Elderly - There are over 2.5 million older adults with an alcohol or drug problem in the United States. Alcohol and drug abuse can be mistaken for the signs of aging. Alcohol and drug use can reduce the pain of loneliness. Clinical research shows that the elderly respond equally well to treatment. An interventionist must be familiar with issues of addiction surrounding the elderly to identify the symptoms of addiction and sheppard the loved-one into treatment and recovery.

 

• Mail

  • 1190 Park Ave, San Jose, CA, 95126

• Phone

  • 408-203-0964

• Hours

  • I provide services between 9:30 AM and 8:00 PM Monday to Friday by appointment only. Weekend appointments are limited to Interventions.

• Contact form

• Secure Tele-Health Video, available by appointment only (may not work with all browsers)

• Directions

• If this is an emergency, call 911

• Please do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers