About Interventionist Brodie Seagrave

Brodie Seagrave, MA

Brodie Douglas Seagrave holds a Master Of Arts Degree from the School of Conflict Negotiation and Peace Building at California State University at Dominguez Hills. He is a board certified candidate with the Association of Intervention Specialists. Seagrave has been trained in intervention by some of the top interventionists in the country including Earl Hightower, Jim Earnhardt, Jane Eigner-Mintz and Kieth Fierman. He is a Johnson Model interventionist. Since 2008, he has been the Chemical Dependency Coordinator for Los Angeles Police Department’s Employee Assistance program. He is responsible for LAPD’s alcohol and prescription medication addiction crisis-intervention response team.

Seagrave has been a Los Angeles Police Officer since 1996. He has worked as a field training officer and trained rookie police officers. Seagrave has worked anti-gang units and gang detective units as well as at-risk youth gang prevention. He has also been trained and has worked as a hostage/crisis negotiator in Northern California.

September the 4th of 1998, Seagrav almost died from alcoholism. He was assisted in his recovery by The Los Angeles Police Department’s Employee Assistance Program and their Behavioral Science Unit. The task of this unique program is to have Los Angeles Police Officers in recovery help other officers with chemical dependency to recover. This peer consoling program is highly effective: Brodie Seagrave has maintained his sobriety since that date.

He now coordinates the same Chemical Dependency Program for The Los Angeles Police Department that got him the help he needed. Seagrave conducts regular interventions for other employees and their family members. Brodie truly believes in the power of the family, guided by the interventionist, to bring about real change in the life of the affected person. His greatest strengths are his ability to connect with the alcoholic/addict and empower and align families in the mission of presenting the truth to their sick loved ones that have lost their ability to be honest with themselves.

Brodie has also resolved hundreds of psychiatric crisis-intervention cases. These were cases where individuals suffering from mental illness were off of their medications and, in many cases, also abusing drugs and or alcohol. He has the skill sets to resolve complicated and high-risk cases, the experience to interact with mental health practitioners and law enforcement officials to ultimately get the patient out of harms way and into a clinical environment.

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