“I didn’t see any of those things society saw,” he says, “I just saw my Dad, and he looked like me.”
Sperling wants to find the root of the cause for his clients’ drug use. Clients are now discovering mindfulness techniques and addressing adverse childhood experiences in counseling, among other methods. Sperling says, “What we do is attack the thing that’s causing most of the problems. And that’s not the person. That’s the disease.” When asked about his goals,
Sperling says the desire is to expand STAND, Inc. beyond what it is now. He sees offices across Metro Atlanta and further into other states. Personally, he wants to carry on the work for decades. “The goal is to make sure that it is [around] and not because of who we are, but because it’s necessary to do this work from the heart.”
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