“Intervention” episode featuring Costa Mesa nonprofit airs Sept. 15

COSTA MESA – The A&E; reality show “Intervention” will feature New Directions for Women (NDFW), a women’s treatment center during an upcoming episode scheduled to air at 9 p.m. Sept. 15 on A&E.;

The patient was filmed upon arrival to New Directions in Costa Mesa with A&E; Interventionist Candy Finnigan. Filming focused on her treatment with NDFW therapists, staff and Executive Director and Chief Executive Becky Flood.

A planned “viewing party” for the patient to watch her episode of the show will be held when the show airs with friends, treatment professionals and other patients of New Directions for Women.

New Directions also functions as the site of a monthly Intervention Workshop hosted by A&E; Interventionist Ken Seeley.

The television series profiles people whose dependencies on drugs and alcohol or other compulsive behavior has brought them to a point of personal crisis and estranged them from their friends and loved ones.

For more than 31 years, New Directions for Women (NDFW) has served as a community and national leader in gender-specific residential treatment for women. The facility is located in Costa Mesa and its primary focus is assisting women, families and their children to achieve sustained, responsible recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.

For more information regarding New Directions for Women or its involvement with A&E;, please contact Flood at (949) 548-5546 ext. 604 or (949) 244-2750 for Marketing Manager Kim Cartwright or visit www.newdirectionsforwomen.org.