What is Crisis Intervention? Crisis intervention, also considered emotional first aid, is temporary, active and supportive entry into the life of an individual or group during extreme distress. Who We Are Turner Intervention Specialists, a woman owned and operated company based in Washington, DC, is built on several years of first-hand experience assessing, de-escalating and stabilizing crisis situations. We are experts in mitigating the impact of a crisis, facilitating normal recovery processes, and restoring adaptive functioning. What We Do Our intervention specialists are trained in many disciplines qualifying us as experts in the recognition of signs and symptoms of mental illness and at-risk behaviors. Utilizing the seven principles of crisis intervention (simplicity, brevity, innovation, pragmatism, proximity, immediacy, and expectancy) our specialists coordinate a program of tactics that are blended together to alleviate the reactions to distressing experiences.