SPONSORED CONTENT
BEACHSIDE RECOVERY
INTERVENTIONS + CONSULTING
Drew D. Breznitsky
FALL 2022: 55
DREW D. BREZNITSKY, M.A., R.M.H.C.I.
REGISTERED MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR INTERN
FOUNDER | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Drew D. Breznitsky is the Founder of
the eclectic mental health practice,
Beachside Recovery Interventions +
Consulting, located in Satellite Beach, Florida.
Drew started his journey in behavioral health,
long before he even realized it, as a child
growing up with a single mother diagnosed
with co-morbid medical, mental health and
substance use disorders. When he was nine
years old, Drew’s mother, Linda, was diagnosed
with Hodgkin’s Disease and later developed
interstitial lung fibrosis. Subsequent to
receiving her medical diagnosis, Drew’s mother
developed Major Depressive Disorder along
with preexisting Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
Drew was later exposed to his mother’s
maladaptive coping in the form of Alcohol Use
Disorder. Throughout childhood and adolescence,
Drew experienced a significant amount
of emotional, mental, physical, interpersonal
and family systems trauma. Not knowing how
to cope, Drew began experimenting with alcohol,
following in his mother’s and other family
member’s footsteps. He began experiencing
interaction with the legal system and other
social and educational conflicts.
When Drew was eighteen years old, his mother
finally lost her battle with cancer. At the
time she passed away, Drew had not spoken
to his mother for a significant amount of time.
Shortly after, Drew’s Grandfather passed away.
Being eighteen, a bartender at the time, and
unable to adequately cope with the associated
trauma, guilt and shame, Drew fell into a
lifestyle of partying, drinking and fighting. The
trauma, paired with associated behaviors, led
to depression, anxiety, self-harm and other
mental health and behavioral challenges.
After experiencing multiple interactions with
the legal system, including county jails and
one short stint in state prison, Drew decided he
wanted something better — something more
than this life. During his final interaction with
the legal system, with the help of his attorney,
now a dear colleague, Drew agreed to engage
in a Department of Corrections Dual Diagnosis
Residential Treatment Program. While
in treatment, Drew obtained his Associate of
Arts Degree in Psychology from the College of
Central Florida. He later enrolled with Saint Leo
University where he completed a Bachelor of
Arts in Human Services and a Bachelor of Arts
in Psychology. After gaining some experience
in the field as a Bachelor’s Level Therapist with
the same treatment center he once attended
as a client, Drew enrolled in graduate school
with Webster University where he obtained a
Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
and Marriage and Family Therapy.
After seven years working in a variety of modalities
within the field, both as a primary therapist
and program director, Drew started Beachside
Recovery Interventions + Consulting out of necessity.
BRIC was started out of a need to help
families and their loved ones appropriately navigate
a system that is inherently broken, and
that is what Drew and the BRIC team continue
to do daily
Beachside Recovery Interventions + Consulting
(BRIC) is your community-rooted all-inclusive
collaborative for mental health therapy
and addiction recovery services. Clinically
competent, motivated, hard-working, efficient,
empathic, compassionate, understanding,
patient, professional, with a touch of punk
rock — we can help with any mental health or
substance use-related challenges.
We provide person-centered, ethically driven,
and clinically competent outpatient counseling,
psychiatric services, intervention, crisis
management, individualized case conceptualization,
clinical case management, peer support,
consulting, mental health and substance
use-related investigations, forensic evaluations
and expert witness services. We are your start
to finish counseling and clinical case management
team.
We at Beachside Recovery Interventions + Consulting
(BRIC) maintain a specific vision and
duty to significantly disrupt the social stigma
associated with mental health and substance
use disordered treatment through exhibiting
integrity, authenticity, transparency and advocacy
in all that we do. We are here to reinstall
credibility to the field through education and
insight. We strive to help families appropriately
navigate through and disrupt the dangerous
and unethical bullshit that occurs within the
industry including, but not limited to, patient
brokering, insurance fraud and human trafficking;
moreover, we aim to restore integrity
to the treatment services industry by building
and collaborating with a cohort of ethical,
professional and qualified providers
Whether you are experiencing mental health
challenges, substance use challenges, or
mental health/substance use-related interaction
with the legal system, we can help. If you
are a family member or loved one of someone
experiencing the above and don’t know where
to turn or where to start, we are here for you.
We have lost far too many local loved ones
and are unafraid of stigma, psychosocial barriers,
critics, and paycheck practitioners...you
are our main priority. We Do Not Negotiate
With People’s Lives.
bricthestigma Beachside Recovery Interventions + Consulting @bricthestigma
321.655.8143 drew@bricthestigma.com bricthestigma.com
1640 Highway A1A Suite C | Satellite Beach, Florida 32937
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