Clinician Interventionist

Dr. Louise Stanger LCSW, CDWF, CIP CILC is a preeminent clinician interventionist and thought leader in the behavioral health and addiction treatments industry. She is the Founder of AllAboutInterventions a boutique global firm. She has performed thousands of family interventions in the US and abroad, gives presentations around the globe on various topics related to mental health trauma and addiction, process disorders and chronic pain, and has received prestigious awards from her fellow industry colleagues for her clinical expertise  

Dr Louise also serves as the Director of Family Programming for Youth Prevention Mentors whose worldwide goal is crisis mitigation with mentors so that your child and young adult can learn to thrive, and  allow families to be families  

A former University faculty at San Diego State University and University of San Diego, where she brought in over 5 million in grants for substance abuse and alcohol training and education.  

Her work has been featured in, Forbes, USA Today, LA Weekly , US Reporter, CEO Weekly ,Women’s World, USA Today, Newsweek, Thrive Global, The Huffington Post Recovery Campus, Journal of Alcohol Studies, Recovery View, Sober World and more. She has more than 500 articles and blogs. 

Her book Falling Up: A Memoir of Renewal recounts her travails growing up in a substance abuse family and forging her unique career path and  

The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions: A Collective Strategy, (2018) Rutledge is the first academic book in the U.S. about the invitational intervention process. It has been adopted at graduate schools across the country and is also available on Amazon. 

 Her 2021 book Addiction in The Family: Helping Families has been a bestseller. Used by behavioral health centers and famiies  

Dr Louise has had the honor of receiving many awards for her clinician excellence. She is being awarded the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from Miriam’s House, LA. 2023 received the New York Inservice Foundation award for clinical excellence, 2022 The Marty Mann Award from the NCADD New York Chapter, 2021, London’s DB Recovery Resources and Harvard’s McLean Hospital as the 2019 Interventionist of the year for her groundbreaking textbook. Dr. Louise is the 2018 of the Forgiveness for Living Plus Awards Los Angeles, Ca and the 2018 Peggy Albrecht Friendly House Service Award for Clinical excellence and the  

2016   Dr. Joseph L. Galletta Spirit of Recovery Award and the 2014 Foundations Recovery Fan Favorite Speaker  

Dr. Louise lives with her husband, John Wadas, and their two dogs Teddy and Coco in Rancho Santa Fe. Together they have 5 children, 7 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Her motto is “Keep Falling Up!”