Brad Waldo has worked with people of all ages struggling with substance abuse and mental health disorders since 2012. Brad has been in continuous sobriety since 2011 and has provided services in residential, outpatient, and private settings. Additionally, he founded a non-profit organization in 2012 that brings recovery support services to artists, crew, and fans alike to large music festivals around the United States. Brad attended University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a double major in rhetoric and religious studies – working mostly in modern philosophy, political theory, and critical theory.

Brad has worked with adults, young adults, teens, families, executives, athletes, and touring musicians in his career in substance abuse and mental health treatment. Brad started working in behavioral health as a mentor and coach before moving into discharge planning and alumni services. From there, he was promoted to positions in admissions, outreach, family programing, communications, and marketing at two industry-leading residential treatment centers. In 2019, he returned to coaching, mentoring, and care management, aiming to provide high-impact long-term support for individuals and families. Brad has been a part of hundreds of individuals’ lives – before, during, and after residential treatment – and works alongside each individual and family with the initial tangible, measurable goal of celebrating one year of continuous sobriety.

Brad’s academic, professional, and personal background provides each client, and their family members, with an effective, custom, grounded approach to recovery.

Through balancing each person’s goals, values, and interests, recovery is framed and developed as something to cultivate, cherish, and protect, rather than as a rule imposed on someone from the outside to simply abstain. Recovery, therefore, is not just the absence of drugs and alcohol, but also a way of life, the foundation, the journey, and the pages on which someone is able to write their next chapter.