# Torchlight Recovery Group

> Torchlight Recovery Group is a nationwide provider of intervention, addiction recovery support, and case management services for individuals and families navigating mental and behavioral health challenges.

Nationwide provider based in Charleston, SC.
Telephone: (843) 708-5748

## How Torchlight works
- [From the first call through one year of recovery support](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/how-it-works/): Torchlight begins with a 30-minute call with John. He then conducts a one-hour, $150 assessment and recommends the next course of action.

## Intervention
- [Interventions](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/intervention/): What a professional intervention involves, step by step: the first call, the preparation, the day itself, and the support that follows whatever your l
- [Alcohol Intervention Services](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/intervention/alcohol-intervention/): How to tell when drinking has become a problem the family can no longer manage alone, and what a professional alcohol intervention involves.
- [Drug & Substance Use Intervention](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/intervention/drug-intervention/): Signs that drug use has become a substance use disorder, when a family should step in, and how a professional drug intervention works.
- [Mental Health Crisis Intervention](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/intervention/mental-health-intervention/): When a mental health crisis needs immediate action, the signs to watch for, and how Torchlight supports families alongside emergency and clinical care
- [Clinical Guidance](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/intervention/clinical-guidance/): The evidence Torchlight's approach rests on, its clinical advisors, and where Torchlight's non-clinical role begins and ends.
- [Safe Passage Transportation](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/intervention/safe-passage-transportation/): Safe Passage: a trained sober companion travels with your loved one to treatment and home again, door to door, with the family kept informed the whole
- [Alcohol and Substance Use Monitoring](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/intervention/alcohol-substance-use-monitoring/): Alcohol and drug monitoring gives families a clear, objective answer instead of suspicion and arguments: remote breathalyzer testing, saliva drug scre

## Services
- [Our Services](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/our-services/): Torchlight's recovery support services in plain terms: continuing care, recovery coaching, companions, monitoring, and Safe Passage transportation, ea
- [Collaborative Continuing Care](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/collaborative-continuing-care/): Collaborative Continuing Care is Torchlight's support for the year after treatment: two Care Coordinators, weekly contact, and one plan that keeps you
- [Recovery Coaching](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/recovery-coaching/): A credentialed recovery coach works with your loved one in daily life after treatment: routines, triggers, and momentum, with the family kept in the l
- [Companion Services](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/recovery-companion-services/): A recovery companion is a credentialed professional who is physically present during the riskiest stretches: early recovery, travel, big events, and t

## Who we help
- [Who We Help](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/who-we-serve/): Torchlight works with two kinds of people: families and individuals facing substance use or a mental health crisis, and the clinicians, attorneys, and
- [Support for Families Facing Addiction or Mental Illness](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/who-we-serve/family-support/): When someone you love is in trouble and nothing has worked, Torchlight helps your family understand what is happening, decide what to do next, and sta
- [Support for Executives & Professionals](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/who-we-serve/executives-professionals/): Discreet help for executives and professionals whose drinking or drug use is starting to affect judgment and performance, arranged around a demanding 
- [Discreet Support for High-Profile Individuals & Families](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/who-we-serve/high-profile-individuals/): For public-facing people and their families: help with intervention, treatment, and recovery handled by a small circle, through one point of contact, 
- [Support for Trustees & Estate Professionals](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/who-we-serve/trustees-estate-professionals/): How Torchlight supports trustees and fiduciaries when a beneficiary's substance use or mental illness is at issue: neutral intervention, treatment pla
- [Support for Wealth Managers & Family Offices](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/who-we-serve/wealth-managers-family-offices/): How Torchlight works with wealth managers and family offices when a client's substance use or mental illness threatens their well-being and the family
- [Support for Attorneys & Legal Professionals](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/who-we-serve/attorneys-legal-professionals/): How Torchlight works with counsel when a client's substance use or mental illness is affecting a matter: intervention, treatment placement, verified e
- [Professional Referrals](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/who-we-serve/professional-referrals/): How clinicians, physicians, attorneys, and treatment centers refer a client or family to Torchlight for intervention, placement, transport, monitoring

## Clinical team
- [John Furtmeier](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/team/#john-furtmeier) — Chief Executive Officer (CIP, CCMI, RCP, CRS)
- [Liz Hawkins](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/team/#liz-hawkins) — Director of Care Management (Social Worker)
- [Dr. Viktoriya Magid](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/team/#viktoriya-magid) — Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist)
- [Dr. Jeffrey Cluver](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/team/#jeffrey-cluver) — Psychiatry & Addiction Medicine (MD, Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine)
- [Taft Draper](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/team/#taft-draper) — Registered Dietitian (RD, CLT)

## Frequently asked questions
- [Is an intervention really necessary?](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/faqs/)
- [What is an intervention?](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/faqs/)
- [Why would we need an interventionist? Can’t we just do the intervention ourselves?](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/faqs/)
- [What if they say no to the intervention process?](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/faqs/)
- [Don’t they have to hit bottom before the intervention?](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/faqs/)

## Articles
- [How Families Can Prepare for an Intervention Without a Surprise Confrontation](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/blog/prepare-for-an-intervention-without-a-surprise-confrontation/): A prepared intervention does not require an ambush. Families can assess safety, align around facts, identify real options, rehearse respectf
- [Why Continuing Support Matters After Residential Treatment](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/blog/continuing-support-after-residential-treatment/): Residential treatment can create stability and begin clinical work. Continuing support helps a person carry that plan into home, relationshi
- [How to Choose an Ethical Interventionist](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/blog/how-to-choose-an-ethical-interventionist/): An ethical interventionist explains their scope, credentials, fees, referral relationships, privacy practices, methods, and continuing-care 
- [Intervention, Treatment, Coaching, and Case Management: What Is the Difference?](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/blog/intervention-treatment-coaching-case-management/): Intervention helps a person consider help. Treatment provides clinical care. Coaching supports daily recovery. Case management coordinates t
- [What If Your Loved One Refuses Help?](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/blog/what-if-a-loved-one-refuses-help/): A refusal is not proof that the conversation failed. Families can protect safety, stop escalating the argument, keep clear boundaries, and l
- [What Does a Professional Intervention Cost?](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/blog/professional-intervention-cost/): Professional intervention costs depend on the work required. Torchlight begins with a one-hour, $150 assessment before recommending or prici
- [8 Ideas for a Fun Sober Summer](https://torchlightrecoverygroup.com/blog/sober-summer/): Summer is right around the corner and that means that there are lots of fun activities coming to fill our days. Most of the time, in our act

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