Family Therapy

Treatment is more likely to succeed if romantic partners and family become educated about the predictable changes that may occur within the relationship as recovery proceeds. In addition to providing specific education, structured family recovery groups provide the counselor with an opportunity to facilitate the involvement of significant others in clients’ recovery.

Substance abuse can place families in crisis, but structured family recovery counseling can help in the following ways:

• Family therapy groups meet weekly and allow all participants to explore the recovery process together.
• Family therapy helps family members feel involved with their loved one’s treatment and be supportive in a non-enabling, non-judgmental way.
• Even if your loved one has made previous attempts to beat addiction, this group will be a highly supportive environment to discuss trauma and other fears related to treatment, recovery, and relapse prevention.
• Information is presented about all substance use disorders, the treatment phase, the recovery process, and how families are affected. This includes information on our medication-assisted treatments such as Suboxone or buprenorphine; however, we do not use methadone.