Interventions

Adolescent Intervention

As worried, frightened parents of a young person with an alcohol or drug problem, you have most likely already tried reasoning, grounding, setting stringent curfews, counseling, church, and maybe you have even experienced dealings with the police.

Despite all of your efforts, your adolescent seems more out of control than ever. Withdrawing from old friends, poor grades or absenteeism from school, lies, missing money and valuables, a sudden interest in belonging with the "wrong crowd" - sound familiar? Taking an empathetic, non-judgmental role, I offer adolescent interventions focused on listening and helping your teen take that first step in accepting personal responsibility for themselves.

If there is a teen or young adult in your family who is headed for trouble, or already in crisis, please call me. I am ready to help your family reclaim a safe, sane, and loving environment right now.

Family Intervention

Family members of individuals suffering from addictions are typically tired, angry, frustrated, unsure, confused and afraid. It is hard to admit that the loved one’s broken promises and abuse has taken a toll on the family, making them all victims of the harmful and destructive cycle of addiction. One by one, they have been hurt and used in attempts to offer their addicted loved one “just one more chance.”

Is your family ready to come together to create a plan to help your loved one accept professional help by entering a treatment facility or program?

A Family Intervention brings family members together with the strength, love, care and concern necessary to break the cycle of denial. It allows you to help your loved one even if he or she does not want help. Family members and friends who are important to the addicted individual unite to give their loved one an opportunity to hear just how much they mean to those around them, and how their addiction is affecting each member of the group. The group setting, coupled with a supportive and reassuring dialogue can be extremely effective in persuading the addict to enter a treatment and recovery program.

What an intervention is not

Intervention is not therapy. An intervention has one goal: To help your addicted loved one agree to enter a recommended treatment program so he or she can begin the recovery process.

This means that the intervention is not the appropriate time to list all the hurts each person has suffered. It is not the time to figure out the “why” of an addiction. It is also not the place to try to get the addict to make long-term promises about quitting. If you are like most families, you have already tried these things, and have failed.