1st Step Interventions was started with the knowledge that Interventions work and that addicts do not have to live like they are living - nor do they have to “hit bottom” before recovery can happen for them.

Love, feelings and facts are the tools that can be used to motivate the addict to receive help. Families and friends generally do not know about nor have the training to utilize these tools in a positive manner. 1st Step Interventions understands and actually is able to create a situation in which the addict hears the message that family and friends become able to give.

1st Step Interventions is committed to helping families and friends help the person they love who is suffering with this disease - a disease that if left untreated, will continue to wreak havoc on all involved.

Bryan Bowen - Founder
In 1999 Bryan Bowen started Next Step clean and sober living. Next Step clean and sober living grew in reputation to be the premiere operator of sober living facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Thru his work at Next Step Bryan has helped hundreds of men and women recover from addiction. Often this work has also involved the addict’s family, friends and coworkers. Bryan has intimate and first hand experience with the difficulties facing individuals in early recovery and the role that the family plays.

Bryan has taken this experience and grown it into helping those who need assistance in getting an addict into treatment. When Bryan started 1st Step Interventions he did it with the conviction and knowledge that Interventions are the lifeboat brought to the addict, but that families and friends need help guiding the lifeboat to the addict.

Treatment programs across the United States recognize Bryan Bowen as a professional and successful Interventionist. Bryan is a Board member of the California Association of Addiction Recovery Resources, the largest organization in the State of California representing Treatment Programs. In 2003, Bryan co-founded of The Bridge Foundation for Recovery, a Public Non-Profit Corporation set up in Marin County, Ca to provide treatment and sober living to those who cannot afford it. Bryan is also in recovery himself.