Cardinal House Recovery

📢Staff Spotlight: Blake Danner, MA, LPC-Associate - Counselor

We’re proud to highlight Blake, one of our dedicated counselors here at Cardinal Recovery Center.

Blake provides person-centered, trauma-informed therapy for adolescents, adults, and couples navigating recovery and life’s challenges. He works closely with clients facing addiction, life transitions, perfectionism, relationship struggles, chronic stress, and grief, helping them feel seen, understood, and supported every step of the way.

Within our structured outpatient program, Blake focuses on building emotional awareness, strengthening distress tolerance, and developing healthier relationship patterns. His approach is collaborative and empowering, guiding each client toward creating a personalized recovery toolbox rooted in authenticity and resilience.

We’re grateful to have Blake on our team and for the impact he makes in the lives of the men we serve every day.

📢Staff Spotlight: John Conrado, MA, LPC-Associate - Counselor

John works with adolescents and adults navigating substance use, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, depression, and identity-related concerns. His therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, and insight-driven, helping clients better understand how past experiences shape current behaviors and coping patterns.

As a counselor at Cardinal Recovery Center, John integrates relational and skills-based approaches to support stabilization, increase self-awareness, and build healthier responses to stress. He’s especially passionate about working with individuals navigating neurodivergence, attachment challenges, and early recovery.

We’re grateful to have John on the Cardinal team and the thoughtful, compassionate care he brings to the people we serve.

📢 Staff Spotlight: Luke Flood – Director of Integrative Health

Luke Flood serves as the Director of Integrative Health at Cardinal Recovery Center, also known as The Wayfinder. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Luke moved to Texas in 2017 as part of a life-changing journey that now fuels his work every day.

A Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Licensed Dietitian in Texas, Luke blends clinical nutrition expertise with a strong background in training and performance. His approach focuses on whole person recovery, helping clients rebuild physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Luke has been active in the recovery community since 2014 through his own sobriety journey. Because of this experience, he understands that real transformation requires more than abstinence. It requires discipline, ownership, and consistent daily action.

At Cardinal Recovery Center, Luke challenges clients to rebuild from the inside out, developing structure, accountability, and resilience that support lasting change.

His mission is simple: help people become stronger in every area of life. Recovery is the starting line. From there, it’s about purpose, performance, and proving to yourself what you’re truly capable of.

I will be giving out free Jam Skating lessons. 🕺💃🪩

🛼🛼🛼Community event to thank all of our Mental Health/SUD partners! Please join us for food, fun, & collaboration on March 31! Please RSVP to Jenny Edelman via text @ 214-254-5813.
Can’t wait to see everyone!🛼🛼🛼

📢 Staff Spotlight: Ryan Eberst, MA, LPC-S 📢

Ryan Eberst serves as Clinical Director at Cardinal Recovery Center, providing depth-oriented, attachment-focused leadership to our clinical team.

Ryan specializes in working with individuals struggling with addiction, trauma, anxiety, and mood instability through long-term relational therapy. His philosophy is simple:

Recovery isn’t just abstinence — it’s relational repair.

By helping clients identify unhealthy relational patterns, heal attachment wounds, and develop emotional regulation skills, Ryan helps ensure our programming remains trauma-informed, clinically rigorous, and built for lasting recovery.

We’re grateful for the leadership and clinical integrity he brings to Cardinal every day.

In behavioral healthcare, we often prioritize "why" a person struggles. But under stress, people don't rise to their level of clinical insight, they fall back on what they have practiced.

At Cardinal House Recovery, we treat therapy as a training ground. We move beyond the "story" to help men practice new physiological and relational responses until they become reliable under pressure.

By the time a client leaves our care, they haven't just learned about regulation; they have built the internal capacity to live it.

👉What specific practices help you stay regulated when your pressure rises?

Merry Christmas from Cardinal House 🎄

Grateful for another year of watching these men change their lives and become the men they were meant to be.

Also big shoutout to all the alumni that showed up. Thank you 🙏