BrainStorm with Sony Perlman

Send us a textJoin us on another episode of BrainStorm where we I sit down with Dr. Isaac Schechter the Chief Clinical Officer of Achieve Behavioral Health. We have a fascinating conversation about mental health and more in our community.Dr. Schechter is a pioneering leader in behavioral health care, Dr. Schechter has devoted two decades of service at the helm of Achieve. Thanks to his dedication and commitment, Achieve has grown from a mere concept to an acclaimed Behavioral Health system. Much more than a clinical psychologist, Dr. Schechter has played a pivotal role in revolutionizing, increasing and popularizing behavioral health services within the Orthodox Jewish community, both locally and nationally. In addition to his groundbreaking clinical leadership, Dr. Schechter trains and supervises hundreds of psychologists and social workers from within the community and is a sought-after international lecturer on a broad range of topics.Dr. Schechter is also the Founder of the Institute for Applied Research and Community Collaboration (ARCC) which studies the health, behavioral health and social issues in the Orthodox Jewish community.

Send us a textSony sits down with Pinny Schachter who is an accomplished musician and someone who works in the field of addiction.  They brainstorm together on the topics of addiction, trauma, codependency, leadership, music and its impacts on the artists that create it.   

Send us a textThis is the third and final episode in this series together with Eli Erenthal. In this episode we discuss practical applications of the philosophy that we discussed in the previous episodes.

Send us a textin this episode, Sony continues the conversation with Eli Erenthal. They delve deeper into the topic of addiction and mental health struggles. Sony starts to discuss his philosophy on the causes and ways we can start to heal from these life challenging issues. 

Send us a textSony sits down with Eli Erenthal a colleague and friend who has been in the trenches helping young adults struggling with addiction and other mental health issues. Eli is one of the founders of the Minyan Shelanu Drop-in Center in Lakewood NJ and is currently the Director of Operations at Our Village Sober Living home in Pomona NY.  They discuss how they got involved in this field. They get real on the challenges and successes that people in the helping world live with on a daily basis. Sony Perlman LMSW, has been working in the field of addiction for over two decades. For the past sixteen years he has been the Clinical Director of Boys Our Place, a full-service drop-in center for young men struggling with addiction, mental health issues and many other difficult life situations.Sony has a wide range of professional experience across the mental health and addiction spectrum; he has worked in the fields of teen mentoring, foster care, and inpatient drug rehabilitation. Recently, Sony served as the Clinical Director of Arena Sober Living, a high-end sober living facility in Rockland County that boasted a long-term success rate that was second to none. In 2019, Sony opened Our Place’s first sober living home, Our Village Sober Living, a 12-bed facility, where he continues to serve as the Clinical Director. It is Sony’s dream to expand the Our Village concept to include additional homes for those underserved in our community.Sony was educated in The New School of Social Research and has his graduate degree from Wurzweiler School of Social Work. In having worked with thousands of young people, Sony has not met a single individual that was not capable of healing themselves.