New Day Interventions & Counseling is dedicated to guiding and supporting the family through the intervention process with the goal of getting their loved one to treatment and helping the family find healing.
Principals
Joann Martillotti-Cartwright, LPC-S
Joann is a counselor, consultant, interventionist, and coach for New Day. She brings her years of experience with counseling families, couples, and individuals to the intervention work. Her role is to help bring structure to the work with the family, identify unique challenges that may hinder the intervention process, and develop strategies for overcoming those challenges.
Joann’s experience with addiction is as a family member – both as a child and as an adult. Her perspective on the family disease is grounded in empathy for the family and accountability for their contributions to the unhealthy dynamics. She has experienced first hand the power of realizing her powerlessness over the disease and her effected loved ones and the serenity of doing things differently for herself. She is dedicated to helping other family members find healthier ways to relate to their loved ones, whether they embrace recovery or not.
Joann is a Master’s-level clinician and has developed expertise in the area of substance abuse treatment, family dynamics, motivation for change, and trauma work. She is also an expert in the field of domestic violence, having been Program Director for an accredited battering intervention program and chair of a regional family violence task force. Her formal training includes Gottman couples therapy, EMDR, Motivational Interviewing, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She continues to increase her knowledge and skills in areas relevant to substance abuse treatment and especially in working with the families effected by the disease.
Nathan Cartwright
Nathan Cartwright is an interventionist and coach for New Day. He works closely with families, friends, and others – everyone effected by the disease of addiction – to break the cycle of enabling, help them confront their loved one in a healthy way, and to help them operate differently with the loved one so that the loved one can have their experience with the work of recovery.
Nathan has experienced both the real lows of addiction and the highs of recovery. For seventeen years, Nathan struggled with drug addiction – primarily cocaine and alcohol – and suffered extensive consequences due to the addiction – loss of family, children, failed marriages, and many years incarcerated in the Texas penal system. Toward the end, he experienced several years of homelessness on the streets of Austin. He got to a place where he couldn’t see life with drugs or without them, but became certain that he did not want to continue the route he was on. With the support of Mark Houston, his wife and friends, Nathan was finally able to go to Mark Houston Recovery, and through that experience was able to get sober and get the tools that he needed to attain long term and meaningful sobriety.
Nathan has worked in the recovery field, working with clients, families and their entire support system. He is experienced in coaching families to maintain healthy boundaries, setting realistic expectations, and develop their recovery path. He has an uncanny ability to relate to clients, meet them where they are, and still challenge them to embrace their own recovery. His true desire and mission today is to be of maximum service to the man who is still suffering. He realizes that everything he went through in his addiction was all preparation for the role he has today in helping other men not only achieve and maintain long term sobriety but also a life of freedom, joy and peace.
