Experience and Expertise You Can Trust

Crisis Case Management (CCM) was born of the need for highly-personalized intervention services, particularly for addicts and families in crisis.  CCM is not a factory intervention service, nor a feeding service for any treatment center. 

I'm not just the founder of CCM, I'm also the chief interventionist.  I work directly with you, get to know you, the addict, your family, the friends and colleagues of the addict, and the situation.  Then I custom-design an intervention process uniquely fitted to your unique circumstance. 

With my deep training and experience, and working with an extensive resource network that supports all forms of addiction and offers treatment, cost, and geographic options, I create a process that works for the addict, and works for you.

It's the personal, caring touch that sets CCM apart from larger firms.  It's that touch that helps me give your loved one the best chance of success.

About Michael Appel

Michael Appel has been on the front lines of addiction treatment for over 20 years. For the past twelve years, Michael himself has been on the recovering side. As a recovering person, Michael has continually served where he has been needed most.  For nearly three years Michael worked with homeless alcoholics and addicts at the Ramsey County and Hastings Detox centers in Minnesota, where he also worked closely with law enforcement officials to treat this challenging population of addicts post arrest. From there, Michael went on to serve at the prestigious Hazelden rehabilitation center as a staff member at Fellowship Club, Hazelden's residential half way house in St. Paul, Minnesota.

In 2000, Michael designed, developed and served as the program director for, the Substance Abuse Diversion Initiative of Lowell (SADIL), a groundbreaking program that encouraged law enforcement to divert chemically dependent individuals into different modalities of treatment, instead of jail.  As part of this program, Michael trained over one thousand Lowell police officers at the Crosspoint police training academy about addiction, and ways to successfully change the focus of law enforcement. For many years, Michael also facilitated substance abuse groups for the Department of Corrections in Middlesex County.

Throughout his career, Michael has specialized in crisis-based interventions, and has performed hundreds of interventions for addicts across the U.S. and around the globe, including in France, England, Germany, and Cambodia.  Michael has served over the past 10 years as a preferred interventionist for some of the best treatment centers in the world.

Michael started Crisis Care Management in 2004 to leverage his deep intervention experience and offer personalized expert intervention services to addicts and families in crisis.  With his unmatched expertise working with addicts in crisis at all levels of the social spectrum, Michael has earned a hard-won reputation as a miracle worker for challenging cases and situations.  And, with his broad knowledge and network of resources to support recovery from all major forms of addiction, Michael consistently gives his clients options that guarantee the best chance of success.
 
Michael holds an M.E.d. in Counseling Psychology, with a focus on addiction, from Cambridge College, and wrote his thesis there on innovative family crisis intervention methodology. Michael also earned a BA in History from Boston University.  He makes his home in Boston Massachusetts and Miami, Florida.

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