Founding Cohort · 12 Seats Only

Become a Certified
Intervention Professional

Southern California's first live, instructor-led training program designed around the CIP pathway. Learn directly from a seasoned LAADC and interventionist, from anywhere on Zoom.

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Live
Instructor-Led Zoom
CIP
Pathway-Aligned
SoCal
First of Its Kind
Why This Program

A serious program for serious practitioners

Whether you're coming from personal recovery, clinical practice, or a career in counseling, this program gives you the training, mentorship, and credential pathway to build a real intervention practice.

Real Instruction

Live Zoom sessions with a working interventionist and college instructor. No pre-recorded videos, no self-paced isolation. Real conversations, real cases, real questions answered.

Credential Pathway

Curriculum aligned to the Certified Intervention Professional (CIP) standard. Learn the models, ethics, and clinical foundations the credentialing boards require.

Cohort Community

Train alongside a small group of peers who share your calling. Build relationships that last beyond the course. Your future referral network starts here.

Built for Practice

Learn the business side alongside the clinical work: pricing, contracts, insurance navigation, and how to develop referral relationships ethically. Graduate ready to work.

Curriculum Preview

What you'll learn

A structured journey through the foundations, methods, and ethics of professional intervention work.

MODULE 01

Foundations of Addiction

Disease model, ASAM criteria, DSM-5 substance use disorders, neurobiology, and co-occurring mental health conditions.

MODULE 02

Family Systems & Dynamics

Enabling, codependency, boundary-setting, and how addiction reshapes the family unit. Tools for assessing readiness.

MODULE 03

The Johnson Model

The classic confrontational approach: when it works, when it doesn't, and how to execute it with compassion and structure.

MODULE 04

ARISE & Invitational Models

Transparent, non-confrontational approaches with the highest published treatment-entry rates. Stage-by-stage walkthrough.

MODULE 05

CRAFT Methodology

Community Reinforcement and Family Training, the evidence-based skills approach families can use without a formal intervention.

MODULE 06

Conducting the Intervention

Pre-meeting preparation, impact letter coaching, room dynamics, handling resistance, and same-day handoff to treatment.

MODULE 07

Treatment Matching

How to evaluate facilities, what accreditation actually means, insurance navigation, and avoiding the patient brokering trap.

MODULE 08

Ethics & the Law

EKRA, the Anti-Kickback Statute, California SB 1228, and the AIS Code of Ethics. How to build a practice you can defend.

MODULE 09

Building Your Practice

Pricing, insurance, contracts, marketing within compliance, and how to develop referral relationships ethically.

Your Instructor

Learn from a working professional

Taught by a Licensed Advanced Alcohol & Drug Counselor (LAADC) with 30+ years as a working interventionist and addiction studies professor.

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Lead Instructor
A Working LAADC
Addiction Studies Faculty · 30+ Years of Practice

A Licensed Advanced Alcohol & Drug Counselor with three decades of experience as a working interventionist and college-level addiction studies instructor. Has guided hundreds of families through the intervention process. Full instructor bio and credentials shared directly with enrolled students.

Format
Live Zoom
Schedule
Evenings & Weekends
Cohort
12 Seats Max
Location
SoCal-Based

Reserve Your Seat

Founding cohort enrollment opens soon. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out personally with program details, schedule, and pricing.

Your information is confidential. Joining the waitlist is not a commitment to enroll. We'll share program details, pricing, and answer your questions before you decide. Serenity Institute is an independent training program; the CIP credential is issued by the Pennsylvania Certification Board upon meeting all their requirements.

Frequently Asked

Questions, answered

If you don't see your question here, join the waitlist and we'll answer it personally.

The Certified Intervention Professional (CIP) credential is issued by the Pennsylvania Certification Board, not by any individual training program. Our course is designed to prepare you for the CIP pathway by covering the required knowledge areas. To earn the credential you'll also need to meet PCB's requirements for supervised experience, documented interventions, and other criteria. We'll walk you through every step of the process.
Final pricing for the founding cohort will be shared with waitlist members first. We're committed to keeping the program accessible. Pricing will reflect the small cohort size and live instruction format. Payment plans will be available.
No. Many excellent interventionists come from clinical, social work, or counseling backgrounds without personal recovery experience. That said, if you are in recovery, most credentialing boards require a minimum sober time (typically 2+ years) before issuing certain credentials. We'll discuss your individual pathway with you.
We're finalizing the launch date now. Founding cohort waitlist members will be the first to know, and they will have first access to seats before we open registration publicly.
Yes. All instruction is delivered live over Zoom, so you can participate from anywhere. Live attendance is strongly encouraged because the discussions and case work are central to the learning experience.
Graduates receive a certificate of completion documenting your training hours, ongoing mentorship as you pursue full CIP credentialing through PCB, and guidance on building your own practice, including pricing, contracts, insurance navigation, and ethical referral development.