About Breakwater

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Real-world experience.
Our work is informed by years of direct experience in recovery, recovery housing, admissions, outreach, and helping people navigate the behavioral-health system.

Independent guidance.
Breakwater does not accept payment from treatment programs in exchange for referrals. Recommendations are based on the individual’s circumstances and available options.

Support beyond treatment.
Recovery doesn’t begin and end at the doors of a treatment program. We help individuals and families navigate what happens before treatment, between levels of care, and after formal treatment ends.

Clear professional boundaries.
Breakwater is nonclinical. We work alongside licensed clinicians, medical providers, treatment programs, and other professionals when those services are needed.

Breakwater Recovery Navigation was created around a simple reality: finding treatment is only one part of recovery.

Individuals and families are often left trying to navigate difficult decisions, transitions between services, sober living, accountability, family dynamics, and the uncertainty of what comes next.

Breakwater provides practical, nonclinical recovery navigation designed to help people understand their options, create structure, and follow through on a realistic plan.

Our work is grounded in lived experience, professional recovery experience, accountability, honesty, and respect.

Jason Favaloro is the founder of Breakwater Recovery Navigation. His experience includes recovery coaching, behavioral-health outreach and admissions, professional intervention training, and operating men’s and women’s recovery residences on Massachusetts’ North Shore.

As someone in long-term recovery himself, Jason understands both the formal recovery system and the challenges individuals and families face outside of treatment.

That combination of professional and lived experience led to Breakwater: a service designed to help people make sense of complicated situations, identify practical options, and move forward with greater clarity and support.