Professional Interventionist in New York
Professional intervention help for New York families, from the city to the North Country.
When addiction has worn your family down and nothing you try seems to land, a well prepared intervention gives everyone one clear plan and one honest invitation to get well.
New York has more treatment options than any family can sort through, and the loudest marketing is rarely the best care. Weeks vanish on hold. One properly prepared conversation changes more than another month of trying.
G3 prepares your family, runs the intervention, then places your loved one somewhere we have actually vetted, in the city or far upstate. No referral fees, ever.
Where we work in New York
We also serve Long Island, the Hudson Valley, the Southern Tier, and the North Country, where the nearest program can be a two hour drive in winter. G3 travels to you anywhere in the state, and the first planning session can happen tonight over video.
How we help
Three ways we support New York families.
Family Intervention
A planned, coached conversation that unites your family behind one message and one clear option to say yes to.
Explore →02Treatment Navigation
Independent placement with no referral fees, matched to the clinical need and your budget rather than a facility’s marketing deal.
Explore →03Sober Transport
When a yes means travelling to care, a trained escort stays with your loved one every mile of the way.
Explore →Why New York families call an independent interventionist
By the time most families reach out, they have already tried everything reasonable: pleading, bargaining, ultimatums that did not hold. What they have not had is a plan built by someone who does this for a living. That is what a professional interventionist brings, and being independent matters more in New York than almost anywhere, because the volume of marketing here makes it hard to trust any single recommendation.
G3 has nothing to sell you but the truth about what your loved one needs. We are paid by families, never by facilities, and that one structural fact changes every recommendation we make.
New York families also call because the situations here are rarely simple. A loved one may be holding down a demanding job while quietly falling apart, or living alone in an apartment where no one sees the decline until it is severe. Others are navigating a loved one who cycles between the emergency room and the street. None of that is beyond help, but it does demand a plan built for the specifics rather than a template. We spend real time understanding the shape of your situation before we recommend anything at all.
Choosing the intervention model that fits
There is no single right way to do an intervention, and we do not push one. Some families do best with a warm, invitational approach that invites the loved one into the process from the first phone call. Others need the structure of a more direct model. We assess the history, the risks, and the relationships, then recommend the approach that fits.
You can read how the models differ, and how we choose, in our guides to the ARISE invitational model and the direct Johnson model. The point is the same either way: a genuine yes your loved one can accept without shame.
Once your loved one says yes, the next hour matters. We match the level of care to real clinical need, from medically supervised detox to residential, PHP, and IOP, and we do it with the bed already identified so momentum is never lost. Because we take no commissions, we can tell you honestly when a famous program is wrong for your situation.
If you want to understand the levels of care before you are in crisis, our guide to levels of care, detox to outpatient lays it out in plain language.
Independent treatment navigation, no referral fees
Sober transport across New York State
New York is far larger than the map in most people’s heads. A family in Plattsburgh or Jamestown may be a full day’s travel from the right program, and a newly willing loved one can lose that willingness on the way. Our sober transport team travels with your loved one, keeps them safe, and delivers them to the door, whether that is across the boroughs or across the country.
Read what to expect from sober transport so you know exactly how that day unfolds.
The overdose and fentanyl picture in New York
New York has been hit hard by illicit fentanyl, in the city and upstate alike, and it has made every relapse more dangerous than it once was. We will not quote invented statistics, and neither should anyone advising you, but the national overdose trend is documented by the CDC. For your family it means the same thing it means everywhere now: the cost of waiting has gone up.
Our family guide to fentanyl and opioids explains what your loved one is actually facing, without the fear marketing.
Practically, the fentanyl era changes our advice in one concrete way: we treat a willing yes as perishable. When a loved one who uses opioids finally agrees to help, we move quickly to get them into medically supervised care, because a relapse in the days of waiting is far more dangerous than it once was. That urgency is not pressure for its own sake. It is a direct response to what the drug supply has become.
Family-led, nationwide
You will reach Matt or Hannah, not a call center.
Wherever you are in New York, one confidential call starts it. We assess your situation and tell you honestly what the right next step is — even when that answer is not us.
Involuntary commitment and the legal picture
Families in New York often ask whether they can compel a loved one into treatment. New York’s laws around emergency evaluation and court ordered care are specific, and they differ for mental health and for substance use. We never guess about the law. We help you see what a well prepared intervention can accomplish first, and we tell you plainly when it is time to consult a local attorney or the court in your county. For a broader picture, read how involuntary commitment really works. In an emergency, call 911 or 988.
Family recovery and the first ninety days
The yes is the beginning, not the end. Addiction is a family experience, and lasting recovery has to be too. We stay involved through the early weeks, help the family rebuild trust and boundaries, and make sure there is a real aftercare plan rather than a hopeful shrug.
Start with setting boundaries with a loved one, and lean on us when relapse warning signs appear. You do not have to hold this alone, and you do not have to become an expert overnight.
What happens when you call
From your first call to the first day of treatment.
One confidential call
You tell us what is happening. No script and no pressure. We listen for the details that change the plan: the substances, the history, the risk, and who is actually in the family.
We build the plan around you
We choose the model that fits, decide who should be in the room, and confirm a treatment bed that matches the clinical need and the budget — in New York City, elsewhere in New York, or out of state if that is genuinely better.
We coach everyone first
Nobody walks in cold. Each person rehearses what they will say, and we plan for the pushback so a hard moment does not derail the room.
The day, and the road after
Matt leads the conversation and keeps the tone steady. When the answer is yes, travel is already arranged and our transport team goes with them.
Common questions
New York families ask us this first.
Do you work in New York City and upstate?
Yes, both. We serve families across all of New York, from the five boroughs, Yonkers, and Long Island to Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, and the small communities of the North Country. Most of the planning happens by phone and video, and we travel for the intervention itself.
How is G3 different from a treatment center's admissions line?
An admissions line works for one facility and is paid to fill its beds. G3 works for your family and accepts no referral fees, so our navigation can recommend any appropriate program, including one we have no relationship with, based only on clinical fit.
Can you help tonight if my loved one is in crisis?
If there is immediate danger, call 911. For a suicide or mental health crisis, call or text 988. The SAMHSA national helpline, 1-800-662-HELP (4357), is free and confidential around the clock. Call us as soon as things are stable and we will help you build the plan.
How much does an intervention cost?
We quote one flat fee up front, before you commit, and it does not change because your situation gets complicated. It includes the planning calls, the family rehearsal, the intervention itself, the search for a program that actually fits, and the handoff into admission. Travel is quoted separately. Because we take no money from treatment centers, that fee is the whole of what we earn, and nothing about our shortlist is for sale. The program bills its own care, and we help you understand those numbers before anyone signs anything.
What if he refuses to go?
Refusal is the outcome families fear most and the one good preparation is built for. Most people accept when the offer is concrete: a bed held that day, transport arranged, work and childcare handled. If the answer is still no, the family holds the boundaries it decided on together, calmly and without threats, and we stay available while that lands. Many people who say no on Tuesday call on Friday. We do not walk away when the answer is not yes. We plan the next honest move with you.
Will insurance cover the treatment you recommend?
Often, at least in part. Most commercial plans and New York Medicaid cover detox, residential, and outpatient care when it is medically necessary, though what a plan approves and for how long varies, and out of network changes the math. Before anyone travels, we verify benefits with the program, get the expected out of pocket figure in writing where we can, and tell you plainly if a facility is pushing a level of care your plan will fight. Our fee is separate and is not billed to insurance.
Where we work
Intervention help near New York
The next step is a conversation
You do not have to figure this out alone.
One confidential call with G3 begins it. No pressure, no judgment, just a path forward.