“We want each person to understand that they are safe to be exactly who they are when they come here. When a reliable structure can be provided in a loving and therapeutic way, in which people feel accepted and not judged or shamed for being where they are, that’s when recovery is possible. That is what we do here at Arise.”

A certified counselor for over 20 years, Larry founded Arise Recovery Residences as a Sober Living facility in 2017. Prior to Arise Recovery Residences, Larry worked as a Program Director for MARR Addiction Treatment Center’s MARR South residential treatment program. He also co-founded and directed another sober living program called Soul Changers in Hampton, GA. 

Larry’s clinical certifications, training, experience as a clinician and facility administrator have all been built around the central mission of his life: to help people find the joy of lasting recovery. This mission is deeply personal for him.

Larry started his own personal recovery journey when he checked into treatment at a residential facility in 1991. At that time in his life, when he was deep inside the isolation and pain that characterizes addiction, he claims he was the “last person you would pick to eventually be starting and running a treatment facility.”  In treatment, he experienced the healing power of living in a healthy recovery community. That experience changed his life forever. 

Following his treatment, he found that he was most fulfilled and connected in his recovery when he was working to pass on the joy he was experiencing. What started out as service work in treatment centers, turned into his lifelong calling and vocation.  The focus of his work ever since has been to provide a safe environment for people to experience the healing power of living in a healthy recovery community–an experience he first felt in 1991 as a client.  

“We provide an environment where our clients feel emotionally safe to be honest when they are at Arise,” Larry says. “We want each person to understand that they are safe to be exactly where they are when they come here.” 

By first providing this foundational environment of emotional honesty and self-acceptance, then the program structure and clinical insight of the Arise Recovery & Behavioral Health staff provide the necessary framework for clients to rebuild their lives around living in a healthy community with others.

“In active addiction, we get accustomed to not having any accountability or structure to our lives. When a reliable structure can be provided in a loving and therapeutic way, in which people feel accepted and not judged or shamed for being where they are, that’s when recovery is possible. That is what we do here at Arise Recovery & Behavioral Health.”