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No one dreams of needing an interventionist.
Parents dream about graduations, weddings, grandchildren, and watching their children build healthy, meaningful lives. They don't imagine late-night phone calls from hospitals, arrests, overdoses, psychiatric crises, or wondering if their son or daughter will make it home alive.
If you've found your way here, chances are your family is carrying a burden you never expected.
First, know this: you are not alone.
Get Your Kid Back is a live, members-only community for parents and families navigating a child’s struggle with substance use or mental illness—whether your kid is a preteen, teenager, or adult. Led by Certified Intervention Professional Darren Hobbs, it delivers real-time guidance, weekday live office hours, and battle-tested resources built from 15+ years on the front lines of addiction and family recovery. Instead of scrambling for answers alone at 2 a.m., you get direct access to expert advice, a proven roadmap, and a community of parents who understand exactly what you’re going through. This is where families stop enabling, start intervening, and get their kid back.
Our Team
Darren Hobbs, CIP
Darren Hobbs is a board-certified interventionist who brings both deep experience and real compassion to every family he serves. His path into behavioral health began with his own recovery in 2010. Having lived through addiction's impact on his own family, Darren understands the fear, exhaustion, and hope that families carry when they reach out—and that lived experience shapes everything he does.
Because he understands both the addicted mind and the delicate dynamics within a family, Darren has guided countless families through successful interventions across the country. As the founder of The Firm of Nashville, he's become one of the Southeast's leading providers of intervention and long-term family support, with a particularly strong track record in interventions for young men.
Today, Darren is channeling that experience into a mission close to his heart: helping families prevent, identify, and respond to the destructive patterns of addiction before crisis strikes. Through his new Skool community, he supports mothers of preteens, teens, and adult children—as well as grieving mothers—giving them the knowledge, tools, and support to protect the people they love. It's a shift from responding to crisis toward preventing it, and it represents the future of Darren's work.
His commitment to individualized care reaches across every stage of recovery. Over the years, Darren has helped found and operate several programs, including NRhythm Recovery Residences, Nashville Recovery Center (PHP/IOP), and Nashville Detox. A Certified Intervention Professional and longtime veteran of the field, he has also trained and mentored fellow interventionists, spoken nationally on substance abuse treatment, and served as a consulting expert.
Darren's work also extends to the future of the field. He serves as an AI Behavioral Health Tech Advisor, helping shape how emerging technology can better support recovery and family care, and he is a founding member of the Recovery Innovation Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing innovation in addiction treatment and recovery.
Above all, Darren is driven by one belief: that every family deserves a steady, knowledgeable guide and a genuine path toward healing.
When he's not helping families fight addiction, Darren can usually be found with his son and his dogs, cheering on the Tennessee Vols.
FOUNDER
Zach Livingston, CIP
For the first decade of his professional life, Zach traveled throughout the country fighting wildfires. While he thrived on the adrenaline of handling potentially life-threatening situations, he also developed a severe addiction that ultimately led to multiple incarcerations and trips to treatment. After finding sobriety in 2017, Zach felt called to translate his ability to calmly navigate intense, chaotic environments and his personal experience with the devastation of addiction into a way to bring hope and healing. From the first call to aftercare planning with clients, Zach makes it clear that he will not negotiate with the disease of addiction and his willingness to show up and walk shoulder to shoulder with the family in their most difficult moments earns him the opportunity to be direct in times of crisis.
Zach is a board-certified interventionist and holds an industry standard CCMI for intervention competence. He has orchestrated countless successful interventions and has joined as a second seat on many more. Zach’s approach to intervention is the Johnson Model as trained by Darren Hobbs after joining his team in 2020. Prior to becoming a full-time interventionist, Zach counseled young men in an inpatient treatment setting. His calm demeanor and down-home delivery help him build strong trusting relationships with his clients and their families.
When he’s not working, Zach enjoys family time with his wife Rachel, their two boys, and his dog Banjo.
INTERVENTIONIST & CASE MANAGER
Lizzie is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in the treatment of trauma, addictive disorders, intimacy disorders, relationship issues, and borderline personality disorder. She has over fifteen years of field experience in these specialties and utilizes a variety of treatment models including Imago Relationship Therapy, fully-adherent Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness-Based Therapies, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), EMDR, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma-Informed Yoga, and Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy. She is a trained drug, alcohol and behavioral interventionist and a clinical supervisor for social workers seeking their licensure in the state of Tennessee.
In addition to her clinical work with individuals, couples, and families she has focused on improving systems of care through program design and administration both in private facilities and in local government. She provides workshops and training on a variety of topics ranging from clinical issues to corporate wellness and leadership. For seven years, Lizzie instructed and authored undergraduate students in Social Work at Belmont University. Lizzie has served as a volunteer legislative advocate for Moms Demand Action, on the executive board for the National Association of Social Workers-Tennessee Chapter (NASW-TN), and on the executive board for The Rooted Bridge a non-profit focused on maternal mental health. Lizzie recently co-founded the Mental Health Active Response Team, a nonprofit organization that mobilizes networks of volunteer mental health professionals to meet the pressing needs of Tennesseans.
Specialties
Addictive Disorders, Intimacy Disorders, Traumatic Stress, Relationships, Borderline Personality Disorder, Perinatal Mental Health, Anxiety
CLINICAL CONSULTANTLizzie Harrigan, LCSW, PMH-C, RYT
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Led by nationally recognized interventionist and addiction consultant Darren Hobbs, The Firm exists to help families regain control when addiction, mental health challenges, or destructive behaviors have taken them away. Darren's professional expertise is strengthened by something few people in this field can offer—he has lived on both sides of addiction. Having experienced recovery firsthand and spent years helping families across the country, he understands that behind every crisis is a family searching for hope, answers, and a plan.
That is why The Firm exists.
We are a national family addiction consulting practice specializing in interventions, treatment placement, adolescent and young adult dual diagnosis, prevention coaching, family consulting, long-term case management, and recovery monitoring. Every recommendation we make begins with understanding the entire picture—family dynamics, mental health, substance use history, prior treatment, medical concerns, legal issues, and the unique circumstances surrounding each family. There are no cookie-cutter solutions because no two families are alike.
Our philosophy is simple: addiction is a disease—not a moral failure. While one person may struggle with addiction, the entire family experiences its effects. Recovery isn't simply about getting someone into treatment. It's about restoring trust, rebuilding healthy boundaries, educating families, creating accountability, and helping everyone heal together.
The Best Intervention Is Often the One That Never Becomes Necessary.
Not every family who calls us is already facing addiction. Many are parents of pre-teens, teenagers, and young adults who recognize early warning signs and want to act before a crisis develops. Whether they're seeing vaping, alcohol, marijuana, prescription drug misuse, anxiety, depression, declining grades, social withdrawal, or simply know something feels different, they want trusted guidance before the situation worsens.
The Firm is nationally recognized for helping adolescents, teenagers, and young adults facing substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions (dual diagnosis). Through prevention coaching, family education, and early intervention, we help parents recognize risk factors, strengthen communication, establish healthy boundaries, and make informed decisions that can change the trajectory of a young person's life. Because sometimes the greatest success story is the crisis that never happens.
When Crisis Hits, Experience Matters.
When families call us in crisis, emotions are high and every decision feels enormous. In those moments, families don't simply need someone who cares—they need someone who knows what to do.
Our team has guided families through interventions, psychiatric emergencies, treatment placement, relapse, executive and professional concerns, legal complications, and countless other complex situations. We understand how quickly circumstances change, and we know how to help families move forward with confidence instead of fear.
Our work doesn't end when someone enters treatment. We remain alongside our families through treatment, recovery, and beyond—helping with accountability, transitions home, relapse prevention, and the challenges that accompany long-term recovery.
Today, The Firm serves families throughout the United States, partnering with parents, spouses, healthcare professionals, attorneys, treatment providers, schools, and referral partners to help individuals and families reclaim their lives.
We believe asking for help is never a sign of weakness. It's often the moment everything begins to change.
Whether you're trying to prevent a problem before it starts, convince a loved one to accept help, or rebuild your family after years of addiction, you don't have to walk this road alone.
We don't just help people get into recovery.
We help families get their lives back.
