Services
Family Support
When someone you love is struggling with an alcohol or other drug problem, the emotions you experience can be overwhelming and excruciating. We believe that through individual, group and/or family counseling, family members can play a powerful role in helping to engage the substance user and make an important contribution to their treatment.
Why do I need counseling when they have the problem??
As a family member, you can benefit profoundly from the counseling process by learning how to manage your discomfort and interact more effectively with the substance user. Most of us have been told that if we want our loved one to stop using, we have to stop enabling, practice "tough love" and allow the user to hit rock bottom. We have also been taught that addiction is a disease and immediate and total abstinence with the support of a 12-step program is the only way we should allow our loved ones to be connected to us.
Why do I need counseling when they have the problem??
As a family member, you can benefit profoundly from the counseling process by learning how to manage your discomfort and interact more effectively with the substance user. Most of us have been told that if we want our loved one to stop using, we have to stop enabling, practice "tough love" and allow the user to hit rock bottom. We have also been taught that addiction is a disease and immediate and total abstinence with the support of a 12-step program is the only way we should allow our loved ones to be connected to us.
We believe it is unrealistic to expect people to change complicated
behaviors overnight. Therefore, any approach that limits you to an
all-or-nothing choice ignores the reality of how we know people change.
People change in incremental steps, by practicing new behaviors and new ways of
coping with life and with emotions over time. The crucial ingredients to making
lasting change are understanding and support.
We use a motivational and harm reduction approach to helping family members heal themselves and support their loved one's recovery.
We use a motivational and harm reduction approach to helping family members heal themselves and support their loved one's recovery.
