Spearhead Health

05/07/2026

Our cofounder Dean is headed to Austin next week for the Lone Star Collective Conference — the only behavioral health conference built specifically for administrative professionals. 🤠 May 12-15 | Austin, TX

At Spearhead, we believe the best care comes from people who stay curious, keep learning, and stay connected to their "why." Excited for Dean to spend a few days with peers from across the country doing exactly that.

If you'll be there, find Dean and say hey 👋

04/28/2026

Our co-founder Dean is joining Antedote Lab tomorrow for this great community event!

04/20/2026

This month our Co-founder Ryan Gartrell will be attending the 2026 AIS Conference in Chicago ➡ who's joining?

Association of Intervention Specialists (AIS) conference is a cornerstone event designed to support and enhance the professional development of intervention specialists who play a critical role in addressing substance abuse, mental health issues, and other crises.

03/26/2026

March 30 is World Bipolar Day—a reminder of how much we are still learning about this complex and often misunderstood condition.

Recent research is expanding our understanding in meaningful ways—from identifying hundreds of genes associated with bipolar disorder to deepening our understanding of how circadian rhythms and sleep disruption affect mood stability.

In our work, we regularly support individuals and families navigating bipolar disorder. The experience is often far more nuanced than the public conversation suggests, and the number of people affected is staggering.

In honor of World Bipolar Day, there will be a global virtual screening of the documentary Brainstorm on March 30, which offers a thoughtful look at the realities of living with bipolar disorder.

Watch the trailer:
🔗 https://brainstormthefilm.com/ -trailer

Learn more about the film and the screening:
brainstormthefilm.com

BrainStorm follows six compelling people living with bipolar in their journey from devastation to recovery. The film connects their experiences with the latest bipolar brain science to shed light on potential causes and successful treatments.

01/25/2026

✦ Closing the week with a reminder worth holding onto ✦

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

01/24/2026

New year, new newsletter. Just three simple sections, once monthly. Join the conversation with us here ⮟
⧉ https://mailchi.mp/spearheadhealth/spearhead-health-newsletter

11/25/2025

💬 Matching Lived Experience with Young Adult Needs: An Integrative Model for Family Healing
At Spearhead Health, we work with young adults and families navigating emotional, behavioral, and substance-use challenges. Healing doesn’t happen in isolation — it requires a family-wide approach built on understanding, connection, and trust.

✨ What sets our model apart:
Blending lived + learned experience — our team combines clinical training with personal recovery journeys, helping young adults feel seen and understood from the very first conversation.

Family-centered care — dedicated Family Coaches guide parents and loved ones to rebuild communication, set boundaries, and reconnect through structured support.

Evidence-informed insight — between 37% and 80% of adolescents with substance-use disorders also face a co-occurring mental-health condition (NIH, 2023) — proof that true recovery must involve the entire family system.

Together, these elements create an integrative care model that helps families move from conflict to connection — and from crisis to healing.

10/15/2025

Let’s be honest — healing doesn’t just happen in treatment.

It happens at 2 a.m. when anxiety won’t let you sleep.

On a Tuesday morning when your client can’t get out of bed.

At the crossroads between relapse and reaching out.

This is where Spearhead Health steps in.

Our Companion Services provide real-life, real-time support for individuals and families navigating mental health challenges, substance use, or major life transitions — especially in the vulnerable space after treatment, hospitalization, or crisis.

We walk alongside clients in the moments that matter most — helping bridge the gap between clinical care and sustainable daily life.

✅ 24/7 companionship

✅ Crisis stabilization

✅ Community reintegration

✅ Recovery structure and accountability

✅ Family system support

✅ Emotional, physical, spiritual & community wellness

Whether it’s a client stepping down from a residential program, re-entering early sobriety, or struggling to stabilize outside the therapy room — we’re here to extend the work you’ve started.

Our companions are professionals with lived experience, backed by a multidisciplinary care team. They’re trained in relapse prevention, crisis response, co-occurring disorders, and medication support — but more importantly, they know how to hold space and help clients build structure that lasts.

If you're a clinician, program director, or referent seeking next-level wraparound care for your clients — we’d love to connect.

This is the in-between.

Let’s walk it together.

— Dean Moses

Co-founder, Spearhead Health

Read More on:

✦Why Trustees and Wealth Managers Need a Behavioral Health Partner

✦Sober Companion Services: Discreet Support for Executives and High-Profile Clients

🔗 https://lnkd.in/e6tV88b7

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✦ Sign up for our newsletter, Mind + Matter, for monthly insights on how we help support a large and complex array of mental health challenges, substance use issues, family dynamics, and life transitions here:

🔗 https://lnkd.in/eVDkMp-V

09/21/2025

🐾 Here’s some “cute” for your feed today.
Meet Jack ✨ Blue ✨ and Otis — our official Directors of Joy at Spearhead Health.

These three don’t lead case conferences or write care plans… but they do remind us every day of the healing power of presence, play, and unconditional love.

💙 Here’s to the team members who bring levity, loyalty, and laughter to our work. We’re lucky to have them...

09/10/2025

In honor of National Su***de Prevention Week, we're sharing a meaningful takeaway from our September newsletter, Mind+Matter. Written by our administrative manager, Elizabeth.

It didn’t come from a journal article or a conference — it came from an unlikely place: binge-watching Love Island.

The men hugged, cried, encouraged one another, and checked in emotionally on national television. That vulnerability was real — and it stuck with her.

“If this is how men are starting to show up emotionally, maybe something is finally shifting.”

🧠 The Stark Reality of Men’s Mental Health
❯ Men account for 80% of su***de deaths in the U.S.
❯ Over 36,000 die by su***de every year
❯ Millions more suffer in silence due to outdated ideas about masculinity
❯ Silence doesn’t protect men — it isolates them.

And a culture that normalizes that silence is one we must disrupt.

🔗 Hope + Healing Are Possible
❯ ManKind Project USA is leading Men's "Talking Circle" Groups in the US both in-person and online.

❯ At Spearhead, we also proudly partner with men's programs that are designed to challenge the stigma surrounding men specifically, and they've created brilliant spaces and programs to support that:
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▪ Bodhi Casa
▪ Balance House
▪ Anecdote Lab

If you or someone you love is navigating a mental health or substance use crisis, you’re not alone.
We’re here — with resources, support, and a plan that meets your family where you are.

📬 Subscribe to Mind+Matter for insights, resources, and connection:
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09/08/2025

You are still part of something bigger — something beautiful 🌊💙