YANA Recovery Services · Dallas, Texas
Recovery Coach & Interventionist
You are not alone — and starting today, neither is your son.
Twenty years inside the treatment industry. Personal experience with addiction and gambling recovery. A calm, direct voice for families who don’t know where else to turn.
Michael answers personally. No call center. No judgment.
Michael Fowler Founder, YANA Recovery Services
Michael was a nationally ranked junior tennis player — on a path that, from the outside, looked like it was headed somewhere specific. At sixteen, he tried drugs and alcohol for the first time.
Within a week I was off and running.
Michael Fowler · age sixteen
What followed was years of addiction — cocaine, then heroin — and a stretch of homelessness along the way. He came up in the years before fentanyl reshaped the risk of every relapse. “If fentanyl had been around, there’s a good shot I wouldn’t be here.”
He built ten years of sobriety. Then he relapsed. It’s not a part of the story he leaves out, because it’s the part that lets him sit across from a family and mean it when he says he understands. Today he is roughly five years sober, and in recovery from a gambling addiction as well — work he still does, not work he finished doing.
He knows relapse from the inside. He knows recovery from the inside. That’s the work.
Michael has worked inside the treatment industry since 2005 — technology, admissions, business development, leadership. Somewhere along the way, the titles took him further from the people he’d set out to help. “The further I got from the guys, the less connection I felt.” YANA — You Are Not Alone — is his return to that connection: fewer titles, more time with the client and the family actually in front of him.
He served in the recovery ministry at Highland Park United Methodist Church, on SMU’s campus — one of the largest Methodist congregations in the country — sitting with young men and their families navigating exactly this.
Not a clinic. Not an office visit. The work happens in ordinary places — a kitchen table, a coffee shop, a walk.
It starts with a conversation, not a contract.
Drug & alcohol recovery coaching, a minimum of two in-person visits each week plus daily check-ins. Michael meets clients where they live — an apartment, a family home — and helps them find sponsors, home groups, and meetings that fit.
2×/week in-person minimum · daily check-insMichael’s specialty — and one he lives himself. He’s one of the few in Dallas offering dedicated gambling recovery coaching alongside traditional substance work.
Free Weekly Gambling Support Group
Confidential and open to anyone — not just Michael’s clients. Meets in person at Campbell Recovery Services’ office, with Zoom available for those who can’t attend in person.
ARISE-model interventions, led by an ARISE-certified interventionist. A structured, respectful way to invite someone into treatment — built on family involvement, not confrontation or ultimatums.
How it unfolds
Michael works with parents as much as with the client — coaching families on boundaries and healthy detachment. Private pay keeps this personal, flexible, and completely discreet — one person to call, one invoice.
Same-day response. Assessment, detox and treatment placement, and — when it’s needed — Michael stays personally to help stabilize. Backed by a team, so no one handles a crisis alone.
Safe, supported transport to and from detox, treatment, or sober living — anywhere in Texas and beyond.
You talk to Michael himself — not a call center, not a script. If he can’t pick up, he calls back fast. The conversation is confidential.
He asks the questions that matter and lays out real options — coaching, intervention, treatment placement — with no pressure and no promises he can’t keep.
Same day if it’s urgent, on your timeline if it’s not. Michael stays involved from the first call through stabilization.
Not sure where to start? A conversation costs nothing.
Tell Michael a little about the situation — he personally returns every call, quickly, and same-day when it’s urgent.
If this is a crisis right now, please don’t wait for the form.
Call (214) 535-2017A conversation, not a commitment. No obligation — just a confidential call.
Michael personally returns every call — quickly, and same-day if you’ve said it’s urgent.
