A Lott of Help With James Lott Jr: An Alternative Way to Address Addiction with Red Door Life's Alex Shohet&Bernie Fried - a podcast by JLJ Media

Bernadine Fried (aka Bernie) and her husband Alex Shohet, the founders of Red Door Life. Bernie and Alex are well known in the addiction community and are on a mission to find cutting edge treatment and new approaches to recovery that prevent overdose deaths. James Lott Jr talks with them about their own journeys and how Red Door is set up and its mission and approaches!

A 30-year veteran of her field, Bernadine Fried is on a mission to break the vicious cycle of addictive disorders. She currently operates a private practice in luxurious Beverly Hills, California, offering a comfortable and relaxing environment conducive to the success of her clients. There, Bernadine Fried has created and carried out treatment models that rely on a more personalized approach. A recovering addict, Bernadine Fried understands the role lifestyle plays in finding a successful path to recovery from addiction or other mental health disorders.

Bernadine Fried has been treating clients whose careers or lifestyle add complexity to their treatment. Bernadine is trained to diagnose and treat couples, groups and individuals to achieve more productive and satisfying lives. She has demonstrated her dedication to the profession by providing services to the less fortunate as well as individuals of significant wealth, fame and influence. Bernadine’s clients are often referred to her when other clinical professionals have been unable to help, and she is able to incorporate her methods into a client’s existing lifestyle making addiction treatment accessible and effective.

Staying ahead of the curve, Bernadine Fried has developed a well-rounded therapy repertoire by implementing the therapeutic model Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing into her practice. Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, also known by the therapy community as EMDR, uses an individual’s rhythmic, rapid eye movements to dampen the impact of emotionally powerful memories of previous traumatic occurrences. As it gains in popularity within her profession, Bernadine Fried is eager to share her experiences of this relatively new form of therapy with fellow therapists.

Now the Clinical Director of The Red Door, Bernadine utilizes her methods to treat patients with a variety of background and addiction issues.

Alex Shohet is a serial “social entrepreneur”, who over the last 14 years built three successful and socially responsible addiction and mental health organizations including ONE80 Center™, Wonderland Center™, and a 501c3 Nonprofit the 12 Angels Evergreen Fund.

Alex Shohet was not always an entrepreneur, and while an undergraduate at UCLA in Engineering, Alex became addicted to heroin and cocaine. Alex met his wife Bernadine Fried in 1983 while they were both addicts. Both Alex and Bernadine were severe addicts until December of 1987 when Bernadine got clean and sober. Once sober, Berni started working in addiction treatment and within a few years obtained her Masters and License as a psychotherapist.

Alex got clean shortly after Berni and in June of 1989 Alex made an effort to pick himself back up by the bootstraps and started his first technology company and over the next 14 years developed systems and applications for the major entertainment companies including Warner Bros. Fox. MGM, and Disney.

In 2005, Alex Shohet left technology and partnered with Bernadine Fried, LMFT to create their first treatment center, Wonderland. Over the last 14 years, Bernadine Fried and Alex Shohet have been evolving their model of addiction and mental health treatment.

Alex Shohet is a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship and its application to fighting addiction and alcoholism. In May 2008, Alex Shohet presented to a number of leading foundations in the country at the Philanthropy Roundtable in Atlanta, Georgia where they discussed ways in which entrepreneurship could be used as an engine of job creation, innovation, economic growth for low-income communities and the mentally or physically handicapped.

Wonderland Center was recognized by Pacific Community Ventures for their efforts to provide healthcare and wealth within their recovering staff of addicts and alcoholics. Wonderland Center™ was selected from over 300 companies that applied to present at Investor’s Circle 2007 spring convention in San Francisco.

In the spring of 2009, Alex Shohet’s 12 Angels Foundation provided career mentors to a few of the celebrities on Dr. Drew Pinsky’s VH1 television show “Sober House”.

In 2012, Alex Shohet teamed up with Kobe Bryant, Bill Clinton, and Aileen Getty to provide funds and services to help provide 200 permanent houses for the Homeless in Hollywood. Their efforts involved resource exchanges between the high net worth individuals treated at Alex Shohet's center with the homeless individuals treated at Step Up on Second.

Today, Alex and Bernadine are blending the rapidly expanding market of co-living and co-working with addiction and mental health treatment.

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