Recovery Treatment Consulting provides Substance Use Disorder treatment programs and individual practitioners with training in
- program development and content,
- program licensing and certification,
- staff education and development.
Our experience and expertise include adolescent, young adult and adult programs including detoxification, residential, day treatment, and Partial Hospitalization, Intensive Outpatient Programs, and private practice settings.
David Gust
LAADC, NCAC II, CADC II
David Gust has been a consultant to private and public institutions throughout his career, helping to develop both inpatient and outpatient programs for adolescents and adults.
As the founder and creator of New Directions Program, he is recognized for program development in outpatient treatment for adolescents. He helped several major hospitals develop adolescent units, providing staff training, effective program design, and implementation strategies for hospital staff and administrators. David worked with several private hospitals, including Kaiser Permanente Adolescent Chemical Dependency Recovery Program, Charter Hospital, New Life, and New Dawn in the greater Sacramento region.
In the public sector, David has worked with 31 counties in California to develop adolescent program services, including Sierra Family Services in Placer County and New Morning in El Dorado County.
David has consulted with programs around the country to expand their treatment services, including the Milan Centers in Washington State, Sierra Tucson in Arizona, the Hazelden Youth and Family Center in Minnesota, and the Tau Center in Baton Rouge in Louisiana, as well as multiple programs around the state of California.
David has been the keynote speaker in venues across the country and has provided multiple seminars for physicians, psychiatrists, therapists and educators.
Awards
Harold Cole Memorial Award for his outstanding contributions in the field of alcoholism and drug abuse outreach, prevention and treatment
— Sacramento County Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board, 1994
James Fulton Counselor of the Year Award
— California Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, 2001
Lifetime Achievement Award, inducted into the Fellows Council
— California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP), 2011
Jeffrey A. Henigan
LAADCr
Jeffrey Henigan, a certified advanced addictions counselor, has been in regular practice since 1981. A graduate with a B.A. in Psychology from Sacramento State University, he has done a variety of graduate level work with a focus on Abnormal Psychology.
Jeff has held positions—in both adult and adolescent residential programs—in case management, program development, family counseling, and marketing. He also has similar experience in outpatient environments for both age groups. In addition to his direct work with program clients, Jeff has extensive experience in Program Certification and Licensing, Staff Training and Development (especially related to developing staff unity, camaraderie and effectiveness working together in an addiction recovery environment), and Didactic and Process Group Development.
To add to his many years in the field of Addiction Recovery, Jeff brings more than twenty years of experience working in a mental health hospital. Taken together, these two branches of Jeff’s career combine to give him crucial insights into the intersection of mental health and substance use disorders.
Currently, Jeff is the Owner of and Program Director for Veritas Counseling, a State of California certified Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), working with adults and adolescents. He also serves as the Clinical Director for Fountain Recovery, a State of California certified substance use treatment outpatient provider, in Livermore, CA.
Over the course of his career, Jeff has developed or co-developed a variety of programs. These include the Care Unit at Sutter General Hospital (Sacramento, CA), an inpatient addictions program, the outpatient IOP at Sutter Center for Psychiatry, the Adolescent Addiction Treatment Program at Sierra Family Services using the David Gust Model (Placer County, CA), and the adult inpatient addiction treatment program at Charter Hospital (Roseville CA). Additionally, he developed the Substance Use Disorder IOP Program at Sierra Vista Hospital and the Substance Use Disorder IOP and Partial Hospitalization programs at Fountain Recovery in Livermore, CA.
Philip Hodson
CADC-II, ICADC
Phil is an Addictions and Recovery Counselor (CADC-II, ICADC), working with young-adult and adult males at New Directions Program in Fair Oaks, CA. He has been in the Chemical Dependency Treatment field since 2013. During this time, in addition to his Outpatient practice, Phil has facilitated groups and managed caseloads at both the Intensive Outpatient (IOP) and Inpatient (Residential) levels of care. He has completed graduate work in areas including Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Pyschosocial Development. For several years, Phil specialized in facilitating lecture groups on the Neurobiology of Addiction.
Prior to pursuing a career as a Counselor, Phil worked for 13 years in the securities industry. Most recently he was the Regional Sales Manager for the institutional groups at major Asset Management companies (Columbia Management and MainStay Investments).
Phil grew up in Columbia, SC, and holds bachelor’s degrees in Economics and French from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.