Gambling and sports betting
Support for gambling-related harm, including the financial, relational, and emotional consequences that can follow.
Gambling recovery · Veterans · First responders
Practical support for what gambling changes.
A professional profile, WGT referral gateway, and gathering place for veterans and first responders interested in the next dedicated cohort.
About the work
Recovery has to work in real life.
Reaching out for help with gambling or another addictive behavior can feel complicated, especially when it has affected money, relationships, identity, purpose, or trust. My approach is direct, respectful, and practical.
I want to understand what is happening, what has kept the cycle going, and what recovery needs to look like in your actual life. Effective treatment should respect the whole person, including their strengths, responsibilities, relationships, culture, and lived experience.
As a Marine Corps veteran, social worker, and registered addiction counselor, I have a particular interest in serving veterans, first responders, adults, and older adults affected by gambling and related addictions.
More about DarioAreas of focus
Understand the pattern.
Build the next step.
These areas describe Dario's current supervised work through WGT and the future focus of Shiloh Counseling after independent licensure.
Online gaming and compulsive trading
Help understanding patterns involving online gaming, stock or cryptocurrency trading, and other high-risk digital behaviors.
Substance use and behavioral addictions
Practical recovery work for substance use, behavioral addictions, and patterns that overlap with gambling concerns.
Relapse and recovery planning
Structured work focused on urges, triggers, decision-making, rebuilding trust, and creating recovery strategies that hold up in daily life.
Veterans and first responders
Care informed by military culture, service transitions, identity, purpose, trauma, and the realities facing veterans and first responders.
Men, identity, and life transitions
A direct and respectful space to address identity, relationships, responsibility, major transitions, and the work of moving forward.
How connection works
Interest is the beginning,
not intake.
Shiloh Counseling can help people find the appropriate WGT contact path. A clinical relationship begins only through WGT's intake and consent process.
Express interest
Request program information without sharing clinical history or sensitive details.
Dario reviews the request
The submission is added to Shiloh's SharePoint outreach list and Dario is notified that follow-up is needed.
Coordinate with WGT
With your authorization, Dario may share your contact information and selections with Dan Field to determine the appropriate WGT response.
Receive the next step
Dario or WGT may contact you with program information. If you choose services, intake and any clinical relationship occur only through WGT.
WGT Veterans and First Responders Program
Built from experience.
Led with purpose.
The Westside Gambling Treatment Veterans and First Responders Program adapts WGT's gambling treatment model for the realities facing veterans and first responders. Dan Field, LCSW, created the program model. Dario Grant leads its veteran-focused work.
The program addresses gambling, sports betting, online gaming, and compulsive stock or cryptocurrency trading through veteran-centered assessment, individual counseling, group work when available, financial literacy, relapse prevention, and recovery support.
Following assessment and treatment planning, the core seven-week model combines six hours of evening group sessions with one hour of individual counseling each week. Program schedules and cohort availability are determined by WGT.
Created byDan Field, LCSW
Veterans program leadDario Grant, MSW, RAC, ASW
Professor to supervisor
A professional relationship
since 2018.
Dario first met Dan Field in Spring 2018 while studying Substance Related and Behavioral Addictive Disorders at the University of Southern California. What began as a professor-student relationship developed into more than eight years of mentorship, professional collaboration, and clinical supervision.
Their work brings together Dan's extensive problem gambling treatment experience and Dario's Marine Corps background, clinical training, outreach relationships, and understanding of military culture.
Qualifications
Training with
clear boundaries.
Dario is a California Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker, not an independently licensed LCSW. Current clinical services are provided only through WGT under licensed supervision.
Credentials
- Registration
- Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker, ASW 108627
- Education
- Master of Social Work, University of Southern California, 2022
- Graduate certificate
- USC Institute for Addiction Science, Keck School of Medicine of USC
- Addiction credential
- Registered Addiction Counselor, CAADE 25266
- Employer
- Westside Gambling Treatment
- Clinical supervision
- Dan Field, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW 24114
Current supervised approaches
- Motivational interviewing
- Relapse prevention
- Harm reduction strategies
- Trauma-informed care
- Brief and solution-focused work
- Psychoeducation and recovery planning
- Person-centered and strengths-based practice
- Veteran-informed care
Availability, location, and finance
Current services are
WGT services.
Availability
Shiloh Counseling is not accepting clients. WGT determines current clinical availability and the appropriate program pathway.
Session format
Services are primarily provided through telehealth. In-person sessions may be available through WGT when scheduling permits.
Location
Westside Gambling Treatment
2525 W. Washington Boulevard, Suite 104
Los Angeles, CA 90018
Fees and funding
Shiloh Counseling does not bill for counseling services. WGT determines current fees, funding, eligibility, and program terms.
Veterans cohort interest
Help build the next
veterans cohort.
Expressing interest does not enroll you in treatment, guarantee placement, or establish a therapist-client relationship. It creates a request for program information and referral connection.
Outreach requestSubmitting this form adds your contact information and selections to Shiloh's SharePoint outreach list and notifies Dario. With your authorization, Dario may share the request with Dan Field to coordinate outreach through WGT. This is not WGT intake.
Contact and program information
A clear path to
the right contact.
Dan Field
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
LCSW 24114
Dario Grant
Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker
ASW 108627
Registered Addiction Counselor
CAADE 25266
Westside Gambling Treatment
2525 W. Washington Boulevard, Suite 104
Los Angeles, CA 90018