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David Gates

Co-Founder / Lead Interventionist

At Addiction Interventions, we handle every intervention with compassion, respect, and understanding. Our approach centers on the entire family dynamic, guiding each member to recognize their role and how they can best support their loved one’s path to recovery. We are committed to ensuring you feel informed, supported, and empowered to make the best choices for your family’s future.

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Jennifer McDaniel

Clinical Director / Lead Interventionist / CADC II - BRI - CTP - CFMI - ICADC / Certified ARISE Interventionist

Jennifer Miela-McDaniel is a seasoned veteran of intervention with over 20 years of experience. Her career began in 1993 as a drug and alcohol counselor and has expanded from there. Today, she tackles the toughest of interventions.

Jennifer was born and raised in Newport Beach and currently lives in Southern California.

Approach & Philospohy

Jennifer has had five different models of intervention training and is a trauma specialist as well. She utilizes the intervention as an opportunity to interrupt a person’s destructive life patterns. It’s a starting point for a change. The goal is to heal the family system and help your loved one accept treatment.

Through her intervention services, Jennifer offers assessment of the loved one’s behavior, creating a specifically designed treatment plan, implementing the plan, providing ongoing assessments of progress, creating strategies for behavior assessment, trauma assessment, conflict resolution, crisis management, and crisis intervention.

She also works with the loved one’s treatment team to assess how your loved one is doing in their daily environment. Jennifer uses her knowledge and skills in behavior analysis and developmental psychology to create effective interventions that improve social skills, communication, and daily living skills.

After the intervention, she’ll create an aftercare plan for your loved one and you/your family. Jennifer specializes in drug, alcohol, gambling, eating disorders, generational wealth, adolescence, and geriatric interventions.

Who We Are

What We Do Differently at
Addiction Interventions

When a loved one struggles with mental health challenges or substance use, it’s not just their problem—it’s the family’s problem. Often, the family plays a much larger role than they realize in shaping the outcome of their loved one’s journey to recovery. This doesn’t mean it’s their fault, just that they have the power to help their loved one in new ways.It’s common to feel overwhelmed, frustrated, and unsure of where to turn. Many families feel like they’ve tried everything: treatment centers, detox programs, and even residential care.

But often, these methods alone don’t work because the family system itself needs to be addressed. At Family Interventions, we offer a fresh approach—one that acknowledges the unique role the family plays and equips them with the tools to support long-term recovery.Our intervention team is trained in various models of successful intervention (such as ARISE intervention and group intervention) and the planning process around addressing a mental health or substance abuse problem. Each of our intervention professionals has years of experience working in the substance abuse and mental healthcare field.

Recovery for Your Loved one AND For You

Supporting a loved one or companion in their recovery can be challenging on many levels. It can challenge you financially, emotionally, and psychologically. With our educational resources and services, we can help equip you with the right knowledge.

Our educational resources and services for support persons can help you learn about:

The Family Approach: Recovery Starts Inside the Family

We often hear families say they just want their loved one to get better. They may want them to stop using drugs or alcohol, get treatment for mental health concerns, or simply make better life choices. While these are all valid and important goals, they often miss the underlying issue: the family dynamic.When a loved one struggles with addiction or mental health issues, the entire family is affected. This shift in family roles creates an environment where enabling behaviors, unhealthy dynamics, and codependency thrive.

These patterns make it harder for your loved one to seek help and harder for the family to understand how to move forward.Our approach focuses on bringing awareness to these patterns and helping you create healthier ways to engage with your loved one. We help families understand their own role in the problem, while also providing support and tools to break these cycles. By healing the family system, we lay the foundation for lasting recovery for everyone involved.

Why Families Wait to Get Help

One of the most common things we see is families waiting for the “perfect moment” to intervene—waiting for their loved one to hit rock bottom or hoping they’ll come to their senses on their own. Unfortunately, this often leads to further struggles and delays in seeking help.The truth is, waiting for the person to ask for help or “hit bottom” can often make things worse, not better. It’s a pattern many families fall into out of love and fear.

They want to protect their loved one and believe that waiting for them to recognize the problem is the best way forward. But this approach rarely works because, in most cases, the person with the problem is unable to see the damage they’re causing until it’s too late.Family Interventions works with families to address this hesitation and provide a proactive solution. It’s time to stop waiting for your loved one to take action and start taking steps to help them yourself.

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Who We Are

Meet The Family Interventions Family

David Allen Gates

David Allen Gates has over 20 years of experience managing and directing nationally recognized behavioral healthcare treatment centers and addiction treatment organizations. David’s expertise ranges from patient advocacy to successful intervention work.

Andrew Engbring

Andrew’s passion for recovery stems from his personal experiences and challenges faced within his own family. He began his professional career in 2013 in Encinitas, California, managing a sober living home for young men in early recovery entering college.

Shahar Engbring

Shahar’s path to founding Reflection Family Interventions with her husband is rooted in a personal journey marked by resilience, compassion, and a profound commitment to supporting families navigating through mental health or substance use challenges.

Dr. Megan Engbring, DNP, FNP-C

Dr. Megan Engbring, DNP, FNP-C has a profound love for people and never tires of seeing lives transformed. She is a seasoned health professional with personal insight on the impact that addiction and mental health disorders can have on families.

Ashley Drake, MA

Ashley’s passion is to aid in the recovery process of those suffering from addiction as well as their loved ones caught in the vicious cycle.

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