Spearhead Health

11/25/2025

💬 Matching Lived Experience with Young Adult Needs: An Integrative Model for Family Healing
At Spearhead Health, we work with young adults and families navigating emotional, behavioral, and substance-use challenges. Healing doesn’t happen in isolation — it requires a family-wide approach built on understanding, connection, and trust.

✨ What sets our model apart:
Blending lived + learned experience — our team combines clinical training with personal recovery journeys, helping young adults feel seen and understood from the very first conversation.

Family-centered care — dedicated Family Coaches guide parents and loved ones to rebuild communication, set boundaries, and reconnect through structured support.

Evidence-informed insight — between 37% and 80% of adolescents with substance-use disorders also face a co-occurring mental-health condition (NIH, 2023) — proof that true recovery must involve the entire family system.

Together, these elements create an integrative care model that helps families move from conflict to connection — and from crisis to healing.

10/15/2025

Let’s be honest — healing doesn’t just happen in treatment.

It happens at 2 a.m. when anxiety won’t let you sleep.

On a Tuesday morning when your client can’t get out of bed.

At the crossroads between relapse and reaching out.

This is where Spearhead Health steps in.

Our Companion Services provide real-life, real-time support for individuals and families navigating mental health challenges, substance use, or major life transitions — especially in the vulnerable space after treatment, hospitalization, or crisis.

We walk alongside clients in the moments that matter most — helping bridge the gap between clinical care and sustainable daily life.

✅ 24/7 companionship

✅ Crisis stabilization

✅ Community reintegration

✅ Recovery structure and accountability

✅ Family system support

✅ Emotional, physical, spiritual & community wellness

Whether it’s a client stepping down from a residential program, re-entering early sobriety, or struggling to stabilize outside the therapy room — we’re here to extend the work you’ve started.

Our companions are professionals with lived experience, backed by a multidisciplinary care team. They’re trained in relapse prevention, crisis response, co-occurring disorders, and medication support — but more importantly, they know how to hold space and help clients build structure that lasts.

If you're a clinician, program director, or referent seeking next-level wraparound care for your clients — we’d love to connect.

This is the in-between.

Let’s walk it together.

— Dean Moses

Co-founder, Spearhead Health

Read More on:

✦Why Trustees and Wealth Managers Need a Behavioral Health Partner

✦Sober Companion Services: Discreet Support for Executives and High-Profile Clients

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✦ Sign up for our newsletter, Mind + Matter, for monthly insights on how we help support a large and complex array of mental health challenges, substance use issues, family dynamics, and life transitions here:

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09/21/2025

🐾 Here’s some “cute” for your feed today.
Meet Jack ✨ Blue ✨ and Otis — our official Directors of Joy at Spearhead Health.

These three don’t lead case conferences or write care plans… but they do remind us every day of the healing power of presence, play, and unconditional love.

💙 Here’s to the team members who bring levity, loyalty, and laughter to our work. We’re lucky to have them...

09/10/2025

In honor of National Su***de Prevention Week, we're sharing a meaningful takeaway from our September newsletter, Mind+Matter. Written by our administrative manager, Elizabeth.

It didn’t come from a journal article or a conference — it came from an unlikely place: binge-watching Love Island.

The men hugged, cried, encouraged one another, and checked in emotionally on national television. That vulnerability was real — and it stuck with her.

“If this is how men are starting to show up emotionally, maybe something is finally shifting.”

🧠 The Stark Reality of Men’s Mental Health
❯ Men account for 80% of su***de deaths in the U.S.
❯ Over 36,000 die by su***de every year
❯ Millions more suffer in silence due to outdated ideas about masculinity
❯ Silence doesn’t protect men — it isolates them.

And a culture that normalizes that silence is one we must disrupt.

🔗 Hope + Healing Are Possible
❯ ManKind Project USA is leading Men's "Talking Circle" Groups in the US both in-person and online.

❯ At Spearhead, we also proudly partner with men's programs that are designed to challenge the stigma surrounding men specifically, and they've created brilliant spaces and programs to support that:
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▪ Bodhi Casa
▪ Balance House
▪ Anecdote Lab

If you or someone you love is navigating a mental health or substance use crisis, you’re not alone.
We’re here — with resources, support, and a plan that meets your family where you are.

📬 Subscribe to Mind+Matter for insights, resources, and connection:
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09/08/2025

You are still part of something bigger — something beautiful 🌊💙

08/14/2025

When a loved one refuses care or feels uncertain, families are often left feeling stuck—unsure of how to help or where to turn.

✦ Here's how we support families through critical moments—with care and clarity.

✦ Our families trust us deeply. See for yourself :
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07/21/2025

Your loved one finally said “yes” to help — now what?

We know how overwhelming this moment can feel.

Choosing the right treatment program is one of the most critical decisions for your loved one’s long-term success — but with so many options and questions, it’s hard to know where to begin.

At Spearhead Health, we help families make informed, confident decisions about care. From reviewing diagnoses and treatment history to finding the right clinical fit, leveraging insurance benefits, and planning for long-term success, we guide you through every step of the process.

👉 In this post, we walk you through what matters most when choosing a treatment center — and how we support families during this pivotal time.

If you’re in this moment now, or know someone who is, we’re here to help.

📞 Reach out: (310) 561-1704
💻 Learn more: www.spearheadhealth.com

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07/10/2025

💡 Why families choose Spearhead Health:

Families are just as deeply affected by their loved one’s challenges as the individual themselves. That’s why we operate from a family systems perspective, making it a priority to ensure that each family member receives their own meaningful level of support.

At Spearhead Health, we provide dynamic, real-time coaching support—just a phone call away. Whether it’s setting healthy boundaries, rebuilding trust, or discovering new ways to connect, we empower families with the tools and guidance essential for long-term healing.

We work tirelessly to create a safe, healthy, and moderated environment—whether we're in the midst of a crisis, entering stabilization, maintaining progress, or fostering independence. At every stage, we bring families and individuals together to walk the path side by side.

We invite you to explore this further through a powerful TED Talk by our Family Coach, Lisa Smith, who introduces the concept she coins “parallel recovery”—a model that speaks to the unique, essential work families do alongside their loved ones.

Let us know how we can help you!
✅ Spearhead’s nationwide network of coaches, care managers, companions, and interventionists are ready to provide on-the-ground support.
⏩ https://spearheadhealth.com/contact-us/

🎥 [TEDx Cherry The Power of Parallel Recovery]
⏩https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAguAjVzE7o

Substance Use Disorder has reached epidemic levels and Lisa Smith addresses how “Parallel Recovery” can begin to reverse the alarming statistics of substanc...

06/24/2025

Compassionate, High-Touch Support for Complex Clients

When a family from South Texas reached out, their son—a young man in his 20s—was in crisis.
Fresh out of long-term treatment, he had quickly relapsed and was facing legal trouble. His family was overwhelmed. His attorney needed support.
That’s where Spearhead Health stepped in.

We began with a comprehensive psychosocial assessment, then activated our full care management model:
✅ Family coaching to shift long-standing dynamics
✅ On-the-ground recovery coaching multiple times per week
✅ Legal system navigation, including drug testing & court reporting
✅ Coordination of therapy, psychiatric care, and medication management
✅ Direct collaboration with the family’s attorney

At first, the client was hesitant to return to formal treatment—so we focused on building trust, not applying pressure.

Eventually, he transitioned into a long-term experiential program tailored to his needs, supported by neuropsych testing and personalized planning.
📅 One year later:
He’s sober, living independently, and working full time.
His family continues to receive weekly support from our coaching team.
What makes Spearhead Health unique isn’t just our care coordination—it’s our leadership.

Co-founders Ryan and Dean are accredited counselors with deep experience in world-class treatment settings—and personal experience with recovery and the justice system. That lived insight allows us to meet families with credibility, compassion, and precision.

➡️ A key advantage? We have a nationwide network of health coaches, companions, and interventionists—ready to provide boots-on-the-ground support wherever it's needed.

🔹 Supporting a client in crisis?
We’re here to help—wherever "here" is.

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06/12/2025

🧠 Excited to share that Joe and Dean will be in Los Angeles next week for a pair of impactful events focused on adolescent, young adult, and addiction-focused care, as well as emerging trends in mental health and substance use treatment.

📍 AYAC: Adolescent and Young Adult Collective – June 18 & 19

This incredible two-day gathering is designed for professionals passionate about helping adolescents and emerging young adults thrive.

Dean will be attending Day 1 (June 18)

Joe will be attending Day 2 (June 19)

👉 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eKNEjWKq

📍 6th Annual Mental Health & Addiction Symposium @ UCLA – June 20

Both Joe and Dean will be attending this dynamic event hosted by UCLA Integrated Substance Programs.

👉 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ek9rw59i

These are both excellent events to connect with others in the LA mental health and substance use disorder space. If you're attending either event, reach out—we’d love to connect!

05/27/2025

Healing Together: Celebrating Progress and Purpose

Today felt like a good day to take a moment to reflect—not just on the incredible growth of those we support, but on our own journeys as well.

Every step forward our clients take reminds us why we do this work. The courage, resilience, and transformation we witness every day inspire us to keep growing, learning, and showing up with compassion and purpose.

One of the most powerful parts of this work is watching healing ripple through entire family systems. When one person begins to heal, their growth often becomes the spark that ignites change in those around them. We've seen relationships mended, communication restored, and hope reawakened—within individuals and within families.

We've walked beside our clients through difficult moments and breakthroughs alike—and in doing so, we've grown alongside them. Their progress is our reminder that healing is possible, change is real, and this work matters deeply.

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Here’s to the power of healing, the strength of community, and the purpose that drives us all forward. 💪✨