Dirk Eldredge
Professional Interventionist
Board-certified intervention professional (CIP) and a Certified addiction counselor
Dirk’s greatest gift is His ability to meet people exactly where they are in their life’s journey without judgment.
Dirk’s passion is helping families heal. The world we live in today can be filled with darkness and isolation rather than the awareness that every single day we get is a gift!
This was true in his life and now 20+ years later. He is enjoying some of the richest relationships with himself and others that he could never have imagined. Bringing awareness, acceptance, and loving kindness to everyone he works with is the only thing that has ever made sense to him in his life. Eldredge Recovery Resources is here to lead with love in every action he takes.
We are in the middle of a mental health and addiction epidemic. Though our cultural awareness has improved, we have a long way to go in removing the stigma around these challenges.
People who are in crisis need a calm, safe, and thoughtful approach tailored to their unique needs.
Families typically need help with leading with love, thoughtful navigation, education, truth-telling, and boundary setting, all while in the storm of addiction and mental health challenges.
His passion is treating each situation with loving kindness while bringing a keen eye toward solutions and healing. He practices active listening as an art and way of life. The journey of his life has prepared him best to help one family at a time with love, respect, and attention to detail & follow through with each step of both individual and family healing.
He created Eldredge Recovery Resources to help advocate for families who are trying to find their way through the darkness of this disease and into the light of all that is possible in this life.
This work is intimate, important, and highly sensitive to everyone involved. His focus remains today & every day in treating everyone with the utmost respect and love.
My Story, my passion, is founded within my own journey.
A Highly Functioning Addict/alcoholic
After graduating from USC in the early 80s, I embarked on a 20-year battle with the progressive nature of addiction in the form of a highly functioning addict/alcoholic. My life looked from the outside like a large success, yet I was miserable and trapped in my disease which consumed my every action.
Finding Sobriety and Education
After getting sober in my early 40s, I went back to college at LMU to study addictionology and learn more about my disease. Through the advice of my gifted therapist, Dr. Randi Gunther and her belief that I would make a wonderful interventionist I embarked on becoming highly educated within the process of intervention by studying under two of the greatest, Ed Storti and Keith Fierman.
Performing Hundreds of Adaptive Family Interventions
What followed was performing hundreds of adaptive family interventions around the globe. Over the past 2 decades plus now I’ve continued to develop my craft of adaptive interventions as well as working for the Seattle Seahawks as their life coach while getting to two Super Bowls and winning one ring. I’ve worked with professional athletes, rock stars, moms and dads, sisters and brothers from every imaginable background.
And Overseeing and Running Treatment Centers
I have served as CEO for one of the finest (men’s only) treatment centers in America, Jaywalker Lodge, and helped to build as the CEO, a women’s only trauma center called Momenta Recovery. I know treatment after visiting well over 100 treatment centers and running two of them myself.
This experience is why I’m uniquely qualified to help families navigate through this entire process. I’m also a board-certified intervention professional (CIP) and a certified addiction counselor through my educational efforts at LMU.