Who he is
Hunter Shepard is an addiction interventionist. An interventionist is the person a family calls when someone they love needs treatment and will not go. The work is planning the conversation, being in the room for it, and getting the person to a program that same day, sometimes on a flight across the country. It is not a clinical licence, and this page says so twice on purpose.
He co-founded The Addiction Intervention Co., which arranges interventions, sober transport and treatment placement for families across the United States. He is trained for that work and has done it for families in crisis, which is also where his view of this directory comes from: he has spent a lot of time on the phone with programs, asking the questions this site tells you to ask.
He owns findingrehab.io and decides what goes on it. No treatment program and no advertiser has a say in what is listed, in what a listing says, or in what order listings appear.
What he does on this site
Today he is the only person working on findingrehab.io. That means he:
- Chose the sources the listings are built from, and set the rules for what gets left out
- Wrote the guides for families and the wording on every listing page
- Wrote the editorial policy, the privacy policy and the terms
- Reviews the claims and corrections treatment programs send through the provider portal
- Reads the messages when someone reports a listing that is wrong
When this site says "we," that is who it means. If the site grows and other people work on it, we will name them here.
What he is not
This part matters, so we will be plain about it.
- He is not a clinician. He is not a doctor, a nurse, a therapist, a counselor or a social worker.
- He does not hold a medical, nursing, counseling or social work license.
- He does not assess or treat anyone, and neither does this site.
- He cannot tell you what care a person needs, whether a program is right for someone, or what a plan will pay.
Nothing he writes here is medical advice. Only a licensed clinician who has met the person can say what care fits. Our guides are built from public health sources, and every guide lists them at the bottom so you can check the source yourself.
The conflict of interest
He runs an intervention company that helps families get someone into treatment, so he works with treatment programs outside this site. The Addiction Intervention Co. is a separate business. It is not part of findingrehab.io, it gets no advantage here, and no listing on this site points to it.
His other business interests, and the rules that keep all of them out of what you see, are on the about page and in the editorial policy. The short version: no program can pay to be listed or to rank higher, findingrehab.io takes no referral fee from anyone, and no business relationship of his changes a listing or where it appears.
Who reviews the guides
No one yet. A licensed clinician should read health guides before families rely on them, and none has read ours. Every guide says "Clinical review: pending" at the top.
When a clinician reviews a guide, their name, their license and the date will show on that guide, and they will get a page here like this one, so you can look them up. We will not put a reviewer's name on a guide they have not read.
How to reach him
Messages to findingrehab.io come to him. The contact page says what we can and cannot help with. Treatment programs should use the provider portal.
He cannot answer questions about a specific person's care, admission or bill. For that, call the program.
findingrehab.io is not a crisis line. If someone may be overdosing or is in danger, call 911. For a mental health or substance use crisis, call or text 988. See crisis help for more.