Intervention Services for Addiction and Mental Health in Alaska

We Provide Families in Alaska Help for Their Loved Ones with Addiction and Mental Health Disorders through our S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Intervention Services and Family Recovery Coaching Program

Addiction and mental health problems can devastate all who are affected within the family system. The ripple effect can even be felt by friends, co-workers, and acquaintances from the people who are struggling with watching a loved one backslide. In other words, when your loved one is struggling, you are struggling, and others can see and feel your change and pain. The old belief that you must wait for loved ones to ask for help or hit bottom is untrue. However, there is some truth to the comment about needing to feel the consequences of the bottom or near the bottom before asking for help. What should be stated after saying someone needs to hit bottom or ask for help to get better is why aren’t they feeling the consequences and why aren’t they asking for help? Our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Service for Addiction and Mental Health in Alaska and elsewhere helps families answer that very question. Most families are operating from a place of dysfunction and flooded emotions and, therefore, are unable to make a rational decision on what to do for themselves and their loved ones. The good news is an unbiased, trained professional interventionist can help you see what needs to change and why.

When a family gets better, it increases the likelihood of their loved ones getting better, too. By identifying your unhealthy family role, addressing enabling, codependency, and anything else that can be preventing your loved one from hitting bottom and asking for help, together, we help everyone affected. It can be something as little as a family allowing the problem to continue and not taking action that provides enough comfort to prevent the loved one from addressing the issue. Choosing the path of inaction only makes things worse for the family and your loved one who needs help to address their addiction and mental health struggles.

What our S.A.F.E.® Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services in Alaska can do for your Family and your Loved Ones 

Although we perform interventions on all types of substance users and process addictions, the most common interventions we do in Alaska are crystal methamphetamines, alcohol, and mental health. With limited access and resources to treatment and interventionists in Alaska, families are often in a place of belief that there is no help available or that there is little they can do. Our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services help families in Alaska and elsewhere with intervention, assessment, and effective treatment plans. Families do not have to wait for their loved ones to ask for help and hit bottom, especially when the family is at its lowest and wants help for themselves and their loved ones.

Starting with the first call, we will help your family understand your options. Once a family agrees to the intervention, we do an assessment and arrange the logistics. Upon arrival, our interventionist will guide you through our intervention manual and prepare you for what to expect during and after the intervention. Regardless of the outcome, our S.A.F.E.® curriculum supports your family through the volatility of your loved ones’ addiction and mental health behaviors, in or out of treatment. Whether your loved one enters treatment that day or refuses for months, families will face similar challenges. These challenges are the behaviors of your loved one fighting the process. An intervention is much more than someone coming to your home to inspire them into treatment with a relatable speech. Intervention addresses everything that needs to change to ensure a successful outcome for family and loved ones. The support your family will receive is vital to your success and your loved one’s treatment outcomes.

Interventionists and Treatment Resources

Like the struggle families in Hawaii face, most families in Alaska must prepare for their interventionist to come from the lower 48 states and for the treatment center to be outside of Alaska as well. Not only does our research prove this to be accurate, but families in Alaska who call for help almost always stress how there is little to no help available where they are. Even if resources were available, it always came back to the willingness to take advantage of them. When a family is preventing their loved one from asking for help or hitting bottom by way of family dysfunction, enabling, and codependency, then where the treatment resources are located is irrelevant. We are not at all implying this is the family’s fault. What we are saying is that addiction and mental health problems within a family cause the family to acquire maladaptive coping mechanisms that are often counterproductive to the loved one seeing the need to change.

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Our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services are available to residents of Alaska and the rest of the nation. We come to you and help you help your loved one ask for help. The assessment and collaboration with you will help us determine which resources are available and most effective for your situation. Once we all agree on the treatment plan, we can help you help your loved ones decide to change their life. Stop waiting for them to ask for help and hit bottom when your family is already there.