BridgeBack Interventions
Bryan Johnson
BS, Addiction Specialist,Interventionist
(309)229-4783 or (309)370-8822
bryanjohnson39@gmail.com
"Together We Rebuild Human Life, One family at a Time." The Family is the Patient, & The Patient is the Family.
Bryan Johnson BS CADC, Professional Interventionist & National Speaker
I've been personally impacted by addiction and managed to secure long term recovery "one day at a time." My life was saved via Intervention. As a direct result of this experience, I reeducated via DePaul University in Addictions, the neuroscience associated to this disease,the dysfunction the disease creates witnin family and reach out to families in crisis who need a professional interventionist to stimuate change. As of May 2011; I've facilitated over 100 national family interventions with 98 percent sucess rate first approach!
It's my personal and professional mission to reach out to families in crisis using my education via DePaul University in Clinical / Community Psychology with emphasis in addiction and education with various intervention models. The premise here is to "raise the family bottom" and prevent severe consequences associated to the disease.
I come to aid with a strong education in family systems, help families identify the "dysfunction" the addiction has caused within the family system and help "shift" roles and responsibilities that stagnate recovery.
Bryan also attended St. Augustine College, Chicago, Illinois in addiction theory and counseling. He is a certified addictions counselor and practiced for a large non-for-profit agency in Chicago specifically working with families in acute crisis. Bryan has expanded upon his practice and facilitates interventions for treatment centers located throughout the country.
People who abuse drugs and/or alcohol usually share one or more feelings including guilt, shame, fear, hopelessness, failure, rejection, anxiety or humiliation. The presence of these feelings could have been part of the cause that fueled the addiction in the first place. A basic need to feel accepted by ones peers has started more than one person on the road to addiction. Others seek the use of drugs and/or alcohol as a coping mechanism to get through a rough period in their lives. Still others use them as a total escape from a life they can no longer deal with. No matter the cause or circumstances, there is help available, and all it takes is one phone call to get started.
Fact: One out of three people is living with or related to someone with an alcohol or drug problem. But most families don't know what to do about it. A good, structured family intervention can make the difference.
309-229-4783 bryanjohnson39@gmail.com
Member of NII "Network of Independent Interventionists"
Fritz Baker Treatment Placement & Coordination & Interventionist for Bridge Back Interventions
Fritz specializes working with impaired professionals specifically in the medical community. Fritz has extensive experience as a substance abuse counselor via inpatient, outpatient, aftercare and long term residential treatment settings. Fritz works well in crisis using approach models of intervention with emphasis on family approach. Fritz works with family systems by providing education and guiding the family to recognize the role each has played in the addiction process. Fritz also uses a mix of different intervention models based on how each case presents itself.
Fritz also works in group counseling and monitoring as ST Louis Regional Coordinator for the Missouri Physicians Health Program. Fritz's ultimate goal is to get people to the appropriate level of professional care and to help educate and guide the family through the recovery process.
Alcoholics/addicts do not normally live in a circle made up exclusively of alcoholics and addicts. Most people suffering from addictions have a multitude of people in their lives that are affected by the addiction. Even alcoholics and addicts that are estranged from their significant others, whether spouses or parents, or siblings, of their children, impact the lives of those who love them. When there is addiction in your family, it is vital to get help, even if you are not the addict.
One of the reasons that it is essential for entire household to obtain support and services is the systemic nature of families. In a system, each part affects and is affected by all the parts. Changes in one part (person) of a system affects the whole system in a host of ways.
As the addiction progresses in the addict, so do the family dynamics of addiction. The course of those changes is predictable. The rules within the system changes as the members eventually reorganize without the addict. The alcoholic/addict may still be physically present, but may become emotionally absent and withdrawn from the family. Significant others often quit trying to re-engage the addict, and begin to carry on with life without him/her. These behavioral adjustments change the organization and functioning of the system, in the same process that addiction changes the addict.
BridgeBack Interventions & "Invictous Woods" Mens Extended Care
Dr Ron Rabjohns & Camilla Rabjohns
Board & Business Development Directors
Invictus Woods Mens Extended Care
BridgeBack Interventions announced during the Moment of Change Conference our intent to provide extended care to the treatment community on a parcel consisting of 35 acres located in Midcentral Illinois. Camilla Rabjohns, board member, had the opportunity to accompany me during exposition during Moment of Change Conference. Camilla was well received by many treatment centers expressing interest to network and use professional resources with development of this amazing project. We are in the grassroots stages of development and welcome any treatment center expressing interest to share their intent to move forward with ideas and comments. Please contact me at bryanjohnson39@gmail.com or Camilla Rabjohns at crabjohns@gmail.com to further discuss details of this amazing and needed extended care in the Midwest. Camilla can also be reached at 309-370-8822. www.invictuswoods.com
The disease of addiction is powerful. Its greatest weapons are denial and secrecy. Often, sufferers are not aware of the toll their drinking and using has taken on their friends and family. They may not even be aware that they have crossed the line into addiction. This aspect of the disease seems unbelievable to many loved ones. They are unable to understand why their addict cannot see the trouble he has gotten himself into. They are unable to understand why their ardent pleas for sobriety are dismissed so easily. The addict tells himself that he is the only one harmed by his abuses.
Often, in order to make it clear to the addict that his problem has become out of control, a light needs to be shone on the darkest aspects of his disease. This is the process of Intervention. A professional interventionist facilitates an honest dialogue between loved ones and the addicted individual. It is their mission to help families and friends to voice their concerns regarding the addict’s behavior in a loving and hopeful manner. Each person is encouraged to share their feelings and list specific incidences in which their lives have been damaged by the abuse. In the end, help is offered and a plan is put in place for the addict to get into recovery.
The most loving thing a family member can do for an addict or an alcoholic is to tell them the truth about how their abuses have affected them. It can also be the hardest thing. If it is not done properly and with care, the offer for help will most assuredly be rejected.
Many people may have spoken to the addict about his abuses. An addict can easily rationalize the complaints of a single person. They are able to drink or use right through the tirades and complaints of a few windy relatives. They may even be able to convince these complainants that their drinking and drug use is actually quite normal and that they are overreacting by bringing it up. Loved ones hope and pray that this is true. They want to believe them.
A lone complainant is vulnerable and easily dismissed. The intervention group presents a united front that the addict cannot ignore. United, we can triumph. Together, we can light a fire that can change a life forever.
PO Box 291 Canton Illinois 61520
(309)229-4783
bryanjohnson39@gmail.com
