When someone you love is struggling with addiction or mental health challenges, the goal isn’t to corner them, shame them, or win an argument.
The goal is to help them say yes to treatment.
The Dave Marlon Method is a different approach to intervention—one built on transparency, professional assessment, family alignment, and respect for the person who needs help.
I meet directly with the person who is struggling. They know we are meeting beforehand. There is no surprise confrontation and no room full of people waiting to overwhelm them.
Instead, I begin with a professional assessment of where they are mentally, emotionally, physically, and in their substance use. I listen. I evaluate the circumstances. And then I make a clear recommendation for the appropriate level of treatment based on the whole person—not simply the family’s frustration or the crisis of the moment.
People are far more likely to hear difficult truths when they feel respected and understood.
Addiction and mental illness affect entire families. Before and throughout the intervention process, I work with the family and other important people in the individual’s life so that everyone is moving toward the same objective:
Getting the person we love the help they need.
We don’t spend our time blaming, shaming, keeping score, or debating who said what. We focus on solutions, healthy boundaries, treatment, and recovery.
An intervention should ultimately be an act of love and concern.
David Marlon, PsyD, MBA, CPC, LCADC-S, PRSS-S | 21+ Years in Recovery | 10,000+ People Helped Toward Recovery
I have been in recovery for more than 21 years and have spent decades working in behavioral healthcare. Over the course of my career, I have helped more than 10,000 people begin the journey toward recovery.
My philosophy is simple: This is how I would want someone to intervene on me.
Recovery requires honesty. I don’t believe a journey toward honesty and healing should begin with a trick, a lie, or an ambush.
With the Dave Marlon Method, there are no secret meetings designed to surprise the person, no dramatic showdown at the family home, and no attempt to humiliate someone into treatment.
There is professional assessment. There is truth. There is compassion. There are boundaries. And there is a determined effort to help the person accept treatment.
Every situation is different, and no ethical interventionist can guarantee that someone will enter treatment.
What I can promise is a focused, professional and persistent effort to help the individual recognize the reality of their situation, understand their treatment options, and take the next step toward recovery.
Because sometimes the conversation that changes a life begins very simply:
“We love you. We’re concerned about you. And there is a better way forward.”
The fee includes the intervention process, family education and preparation, assessment of the individual, treatment recommendations, and a concerted effort to help the individual accept and enter appropriate treatment.
If someone you love is struggling, you don’t have to wait for them to hit bottom. We can start the conversation now.
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