About Sober.com
Sober.com is dedicated to fighting the stigma and the disease of alcoholism and other drug addictions by providing education, information, help and hope to the public. Sober.com is the best website for addicts, their families and loved ones to go to in order to effectuate the best treatment and care and the best financial and clinical fit available anywhere.
Soberhouses.com (sober.com) went online in December 2000. The project originated out of the need to have accurate, up-to-date, quick access to information for referrals into treatment programs, detoxification centers, halfway houses, sober houses and as a substantial method for assisting men and women with pre and post addiction treatment discharge. When the company first started, the printed directories available to the “addicted consumer” often were out of date and once lent out or borrowed failed to be returned. After extensive research, resources were discovered on different search engines that many facilities did and still do not have a web presence. Thus, the people who needed the help the most were unable to discover where to go to find it.
Until soberhouses.com (sober.com) came into being, the addiction and recovery industry did not have a comprehensive web presence and information was terribly fragmented. Soberhouses.com (sober.com) was and still is a pioneer in the industry: which had no web portal to call its own for advertising and marketing of products and services – until soberhouses.com (sober.com) invented one. A person could find some miscellaneous information on other fragmented directories. There was no systemic organization of this information anywhere in the world. The soberhouses.com (sober.com) goal of filling this vacuum and providing the industry a user friendly, free access site for professional and consumers to shop for much needed resources came into fruition.
The Sober.com Team
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Harold Jonas, PhD, LMHC, MA, CAP
President/CEO
'Jonas’, conceptualized and initiated the original www.soberhouses.com directory in 2000, going LIVE with the project in December. He has celebrated 20 years of personal recovery and has spent all of them in the industry. His origins and passion as a trained professional counselor have led him to create and operate multiple business ventures aimed at assisting the addiction and recovery population. Most notably growing soberhouses.com into a comprehensive portal for recovery renamed www.sober.com. Other ventures in operation include the ‘recovery destination” at the Delray Inn, Koffeeokee, Recovery Zone, and Intervention Strategies .
Dr. Jonas is a well known and highly respected innovator of utilizing technology in recovery. Click here to read more about Dr Harold Jonas.
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Jeannie Saros, LMHC, CAP, C.Ht
Director of Training
Ms. Jeannie Saros was first introduced to the world of therapy and helping others through her mother, Susan Saros, The Director of The Gestalt Institute of Quebec. Those years gave her the opportunity to participate in trainings by Virginia Satir, Laura Perls, and many more that came to train along side her mother or just come to stay and visit for awhile. During that period of her life she completed intensive one year training in Gestalt therapy with the late Don Horne, but was not to use those skills until many years later. In 1981, Ms Saros found herself at the doorstep of others, looking for help from her own addiction which had taken her far from home ten years earlier. In was during those first few groups that she remember the path that she had started years before alongside her mother. Since that day she has dedicated her life to working with others and furthering her education and training.
Ms. Saros became a Certified Addictions Professional in the early 1980s, and has worked at numerous centers locally. She has been in Private Practice since 2004 as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. In 2005 received national certification in clinical hypnotherapy. In 2006 became a member of the National Board of Certified Counselors.
Her latest endeavor was joining the sober.com team in January 2007 primarily to bring Recovery Coaching to the forefront of client care. She is the Clinical Trainer and Supervisor of the Recovery Coaching Network.Click here to read more about Jeannie Saros.
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Jonathan Jonas
Director of Business Development
Jonathan has been on board since late 2001. He is the supervisor for a majority of staff and functions of the corporation. He has recognized expertise in organization, communication skills, operational management, finances, financial record keeping and marketing.
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Alison Weinstein
Advertising Sales Specialist
Alison has been with sober.com for the past four (4) years. She is in charge of all aspects of sales, customer service, customer relations, performs marketing functions and staff sales training.
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Ryan Fritts
Project Manager/Lead Developer
Ryan has been apart of the sober.com team for two (2) years and has contributed greatly to the backbone and infrastructure of the company. In charge of all the computer programming, database management and creative input for new projects. Highly successful track record as computer analyst, website administrator and programmer. Helps screen and hire new additions to the programming team. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
