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.

About The Founder: Bryan Bowen CAS II, BRI I
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.In 2004 Bryan founded 1st Step Interventions. In 2005 Bryan founded Mayflower Center, a long-term Treatment Program that treated Adult Men who had a history of relapse. Bryan spent 6 years as the CEO and Executive Director of this Nationally recognized program. Thru his work at Next Step,1st Step Interventions & Mayflower Center, Bryan has helped over 1000 men and women recover from their addictions. 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 lasting recovery and the role that the family plays.

Bryan's knowledge and experience in The Addictions Field has led him to be extremely successful at helping Men and Women, and their Family Systems find long term recovery.He has an uncanny ability to define the needs and to show the path for an Addict and their Family to take.

Treatment programs across the United States recognize Bryan Bowen as a professional and successful Addiction Specialist, Addictions Consultant, Interventionist, Crisis Resolution Expert and Treatment Administrator. Bryan has beeen a Board member of the California Association of Addiction Recovery Resources,The Association of Intervention Specialists, The Helen Vine Detox Center and The Henry Ohlhoffs Programs. Bryan is also in recovery himself.