Mehran
A caution to anyone considering Second Wind. I came here four and a half years ago, referred from an Intensive Outpatient Program for addiction. For most of those years, I worked with a genuinely talented clinician — I won't name them, since I don't have their expressed permission to speak about them publicly. Some months ago, Second Wind was sold to new ownership, and they "cleaned house" in a peculiar fashion. My therapist was fired with no notice to me, the client. My care was transferred to a second clinician, who was fired two weeks later — again, with no notice. I learned about the first firing when my scheduled Zoom appointment never produced a login. I learned about the second when I showed up in person for my appointment and walked into a room of three total strangers. When I went to the Clinical Director with the depth of my concern about this total failure of continuity of care, I was given in-office gossip and a handoff to the previous owner. The previous owner did call. He told me, in the most dismissive and incurious tone the conversation could bear, that my mind was clearly already made up about Second Wind, and that he had no time or interest in explaining or reconciling Second Wind's catastrophic coordination, communication, or duty of care. I am four and a half years sober. I am grounded in my sobriety, I love it, and I engage with it actively every day. But I remember the early days. I remember needing consistency and reliability *like air* — which is not a tall order for a behavioral health organization to provide. Second Wind, under its new ownership, failed at it twice in two weeks, with no apparent awareness that abandoning fragile clients without notice is exactly the kind of harm a mental health practice is supposed to prevent, not inflict. This is disqualifying behavior for a mental health organization. Keep looking. Second Wind is not prepared or interested in offering fragile addicts — all fighting for their lives — basic human respect, never mind a safe place to land and unpack the work of recovery.