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title: "How Torchlight works"
url: https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/how-it-works/
description: "Torchlight begins with a 30-minute call with John. He then conducts a one-hour, $150 assessment and recommends the next course of action."
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# How Torchlight works

Torchlight is a full-service recovery firm. We help people get into recovery and stay there. Families get a plan for the immediate problem and the year that follows.

## How the process works

1. **Call Torchlight.** Your first call is a 30-minute conversation with John Furtmeier, Torchlight's CEO. John listens to what is happening and decides whether Torchlight should lead the work. When another provider should lead it, John makes the referral.
2. **Complete the assessment.** The assessment takes one hour and costs $150. John invites family members to join the call. He asks each person what is happening and identifies what the family needs next. When Torchlight carries out the one-year plan, Torchlight credits the $150 assessment fee to that plan.
3. **Review the recommendations.** John explains each recommendation and the reason for it. The $150 fee creates an ethical boundary: you pay for his judgment, whether he recommends Torchlight or another provider. He names who should do the work: Torchlight, another provider, or Torchlight and outside providers working from the same plan.
4. **Put the plan to work.** The plan names the next action: an intervention, residential treatment, recovery coaching, case management, a psychiatric referral, or a referral to another provider. The $150 covers the assessment alone. Each service in the plan is scoped and priced on its own, and you approve it before it begins. When Torchlight leads the plan, Torchlight coordinates the family and every provider named in it.
5. **Stay with recovery.** A 30-day residential stay starts recovery. It does not solve a long-term problem by itself. Torchlight's long-term engagement covers one year. The assessment determines which services belong in that year and what they cost.

## What the assessment recommends

- Professional intervention
- Residential treatment
- Recovery coaching
- Case management and continuing care
- Psychiatric referral
- Referral to another provider

## What an intervention means at Torchlight

An intervention uses respectful engagement and persuasion. Torchlight and the family help your loved one understand the options in front of them and accept the gift of recovery. It is not an ambush, a coercive confrontation, or an awkward surprise party.

## The long view

Recovery takes time. A 30-day stay is the first leg of a marathon, not the finish line. The person still needs a plan for daily life, family relationships, accountability, health, work, and the setbacks that follow treatment. Torchlight holds that plan together.

Families and their loved ones deserve dignity, respect, and honesty at every step.

Call (843) 708-5748 or visit https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/contact/ to start a conversation.