Dear Joyce,

I am writing to thank you for the great job you’ve done on our intervention with my daughter. Over the last eight years we have done several interventions. None of which have been like this experience; none having the success this one has. Your level of work is of the highest quality and your skill in each situation was excellent. I have high respect for the Association of Intervention Specialists Credentialing Board to which you belong. You were a wealth of information informing us on options we were not aware of like Discreet Transport Company, and rehabilitation centers throughout the United States that you’ve checked out personally. I was very impressed with your personal choice of rehab for my daughter. It’s proven to be the exact place she needs to be. They are quite familiar with her habits and struggles there while lovingly and respectfully helping her to recover. In my opinion these are the things one should be able to rely on when working with a professional like yourself. What I was not expecting was your accompaniment to the streets of Los Angeles to look for and get my little rough child. I did not expect you to have such compassion for my child and as I held her for the first time in months, while you and your colleague dealt with the issues of warrants for her arrest, how to get her to Texas, and lack of ID, I was free to sit as close to her as I could, hold her, smell her, stroke her hair, and hear her voice in my ear as she spoke with me. I must admit it was a difficult trip for me, but the hardest part of all was to let go of this little rough child after finely getting her in my arms. Only to you Joyce, would I have ever let her go. Standing there on the side of that little private runway, waving as your plane went by lifting into the sky I knew you would take the best of care with my most valuable possession, my daughter. You certainly don’t need me to tell you that you are qualified and skilled in your field and that is what makes you so successful at what you do, but what makes you the best at what you do is your respect for the addict, your compassion, and particularly your heart.

In loving Friendship,
Leah S.