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Josh Beauchaine, MA, LMFT, CNDAI
Clinical Director/CEO
Josh Beauchaine is known as a direct, insightful, and firmly supportive interventionist. Integrating his 15 years of experience in the mental health field, Josh strives to help families implement a safe and effective approach to helping a loved one enter recovery.
Josh focuses on using strategic coaching to help each family member learn how to “motivate” the treatment decision without having to attack, embarrass, or abandon the very person they are trying to help.
During his thousands of hours of experience in the counseling field, Josh has intervened in almost every addiction category imaginable including alcohol, narcotics, marijuana, sexual behaviors, eating, pornography, spending, and gambling. He has held positions as the head counselor of an addiction recovery home, a psychotherapist, a pastoral counselor, a youth pastor, an assistant school counselor, and a mental health worker at a residential treatment center for severely emotionally disturbed adolescents.
Josh received his Bachelor of Arts in Applied Communications from Point Loma Nazarene University and his Master’s of Science in Counseling from California State University at Fullerton.
John Hernandez, MS, LMFT
Operations Director
John has worked with adults and teens from all walks of life to include business leaders, military personnel, professional and college athletes, musicians and professionals in the entertainment industry. He is a Licensed Therapist within the state of California. John has gained over ten years of professional counseling experience in various environments and what his clients appreciate the most from him is his direct style with a personal touch. They come to view honesty as a powerful growth experience that yields real results.
John’s experience in the recovery field results from dealing with addiction issues that his client’s have struggled with during eight years of private practice. Additionally, John held the position of addiction recovery counselor with the United States Naval Hospital Inpatient program, Camp Pendleton, California.
Academic history includes graduating with honors from Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California holding a B.A in Psychology and a M.S in Clinical Psychology. Supplemental coursework was acquired at Tulane University and George Mason University in New Orleans and Washington D.C. John’s professional experience includes as counselor with the United States Navy, counselor working with federal inmates, as magistrate with the State of Virginia and foster care facility working therapeutically with severely abused teens. His professional training includes EMDR therapy, an effective technique in treating clients who have experienced traumatic events.
Brent Firmery CAADAC
Director of Admissions
Brent is an unbelievably caring person who is passionate to go out of his way to help people. His blend of intelligence and perception of the client’s emotions makes him integral to everything we do.
Brent has diverse clinical experience in working with people suffering from dual diagnosis and people suffering from addiction and chemical dependency. He is pretty much the “go-to” for everything— intake, scheduling, insurance billing, providing mentorship, sober coaching, support, and structure.
Brent has extensive experience implementing short and long-term individual therapy, family therapy and group therapy. Additionally, Brent is a CAADAC graduate of the University of California San Diego and he is passionate about helping people who are suffering from addiction to move towards a new life full of potential and healthy living.
Brent attended Fresno State University as a business major, and worked as a sales manager for nearly 30 years. Brent completed his internship at Camp Pendleton Navy Hospital as a substance abuse and PTSD, dual diagnosis counselor. Brent also has certificates in spice, bath salt, gambling and sexual dependency addictions as well as eating disorders.
Robin Pajaro
Hypnotherapist
Robin is a certified Hypnotherapist specializing in effectively managing stress, anxiety, depression, low self worth and pain management while enhancing the well being of her clients. Robin’s unique approach to Hypnotherapy is empowering her clients with tools to manage their own well being as they prepare to enter treatment. Robin was also trained in the Culinary Arts with ten plus years experience with an emphasis on nutrition giving her clients a transformative life experience on their journey to recovery.
“I believe everyone has all the resources needed inside themselves to live a joyous, abundant, and successful life.”
Robin is the mother of two active teenage daughters and is an 8 year member of a triathlon team competing in over 40 endurance races to date. She also has a passion for world travel and has spent a large portion of her life traveling the world extensively and feels that her unique experiences have contributed to the person she is today.
Carlos X. Montana M.D
Supervising Physician
Founder of Family Healing Center, Dr. Montano oversees his patients who reside in our subacute detox. He has longstanding experience with Detoxification or “Detox” which is vital to recovery. He monitors patients who are on medication and conducts physical assessments on all patients. In addition to his vast medical experience, Dr. Montano brings warmth, understanding and offers guidance to families to help them better understand the physical aspects of addiction recovery. Addiction can place such tremendous physical stress and pose certain dangers to the individual. He Says, “It is my goal to get them through the process safely, humanely.”
“My approach to treating patients with Addictive Disorders is to treat the whole person, after a full assessment of his/her present and past history. I treat every patient with the same respect and understanding as i would a patient with any others medical condition. They need to be guide toward their own recovery process. With our greatest advances of medications we can assist the person in recovering from the use of Alcohol and /or Drugs.
There are many co-existing psychiatric and physical illness associated with addiction and they also need to be diagnosed adequately to be able to treat them, so the patient can feel more centered and strong enough to stay sober the rest of his life.
In our program we treat many patients who happened to get addicted to narcotic/opiates after an injury/accident or after an operation. It is not their fault, considering approximately 20% of the general population will eventually become addicted to the narcotics. There is great hope for these patients to release themselves from this addiction.”
Certified Specialist, American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Board Certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine.
American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.
American Society of Addiction Medicine
California Society of Addiction Medicine.
Robert Steele, MD MBA FACEP
Sports Medicine and ER Physician – Chief Consultant
Dr. Steele represents a key component within our mobile medical service and specialized athlete program. A graduate of Wayne State University Medical School, Dr. Steele completed his internship and residency at Saint John’s Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Steele is a Fellow of the College of Emergency Physicians and Associate Professor at Loma Linda University. In addition to his medical responsibilities, Dr. Steele is Chief Medical Officer of Inquicker, a medical internet based software company, Vice President of Symons Ambulance and Critical Care service and owner of i-Care, a virtual e-based urgent care company in Murrieta, California. Dr. Steel’s experience in emergency and sports medicine makes him a perfect fit for SoCal Addiction Treatment. Dr. Steele is also a high performance aircraft pilot.
Scott Minton, PhD
Advanced Nutritionist Consultant
Dr. Scott Minton, PhD, has over a decade of experience as a biology professor, and has worked as a clinical and laboratory researcher, and in recent years, as a nutrition consultant. Dr. Minton earned both a master’s degree and PhD in Resource Ecology from the University of Michigan, and was a tenured Associate Professor in Biological Sciences at Vanguard University of Southern California. Dr. Minton has completed two years of medical training at Ross University School of Medicine, and holds a certificate in Health and Fitness by the American College of Sports Medicine.