Our Intervention Services provide Families in Maryland with valuable education and resources to help their loved ones with Mental Health, Alcoholism, and Drug Addiction
Our S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Intervention and Family Recovery Coaching Services offer solutions to families for their loved ones in Maryland who are unwilling to seek help for their Addiction and Mental Health concerns.
How many times have you heard, “They have to want it,” “They must ask for it,” and “They have to hit bottom”? How many times have you heard someone say the family may be unknowingly preventing this from happening? Before you read any further, we are not saying this is the family’s fault. We are saying that the family may be doing certain things through codependency, enabling, and manipulations by their loved one that prevent addiction and mental health disorders from improving. Our Mental Health and Addiction intervention services in Maryland and the rest of the United States have a curriculum that helps families see what needs to change for their loved one to want help, ask for help, and feel the consequences of their actions.
The number one predictor of treatment outcomes is the environment. The environment includes the family system. There are many things a family may be doing or not doing, saying, or not saying that is causing their loved one not to see the need for change. Addiction and Mental Health recovery do require willingness. If that willingness to change isn’t recognized, the change will most likely not occur. Change is more likely to happen when a family holds their loved one accountable and can realize the consequences. Whether your family, your loved one, or all is in Maryland or anywhere else in the country, we can help. We are not talking about tough love but about ownership and detachment.
Meet Our Experienced Intervention Counselors
Mike Loverde, MHS, CIP
Clinical Director & Founder, Family First Intervention
Lisa Loverde, CADC
CFO & Compliance Officer
Adam Faulkner
CEO
Jeff Lukas
COO
Regina Greene, MS, NLP, Psy.D. (Doctoral Candidate)
Director of S.A.F.E.® Family Recovery
Lydia Negron, MT-BC
S.A.F.E.® Family Recovery & Post Intervention Support
Meghan Gaydos, MA
S.A.F.E.® Family Recovery & Post Intervention Support
Alaina Fountain
Intervention Coordinator
Megan Torrez
Intervention Coordinator
Mark Wenzel
Intervention Coordinator
Natali Chuvala
Intervention Coordinator
Makayla Zubal
Administrative Assistant
An intervention is not about how to control your loved one with a substance use or mental health disorder; it is about learning how to let go of believing you can.
How are S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services for Addiction and Mental Health in Maryland Work
Irrespective of your loved one’s decision to do something about their addiction or mental health struggles, the loved one’s family can do something about it. When a family believes the person must want or ask for help and hit bottom, they believe the family has to wait in a holding pattern until the other person decides to change. The belief is untrue and dangerous for the loved one and their family. Why should anyone sit back and wait for someone with impaired judgment and distorted perception to make a rational decision? It makes no sense when you look at it or pose the question that way.
Our S.A.F.E.® Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services in Maryland help families understand the importance of families taking the first step. When the environment, which includes the family, changes, the loved one with mental health and addiction struggles has no choice but to look at other options. We are not suggesting ultimatums; we are suggesting helping the loved one start advocating for their care by addressing the environment, preventing that from happening.
We have assisted countless families in Maryland, the Middle Atlantic Region, and the entire country with the same struggles: a loved one who doesn’t want it, won’t ask for it, and hasn’t hit bottom. When we deliver our Intervention services, we consider the entire family system, not just the loved one with mental health and addiction problems. We help everyone see where they can improve to increase the likelihood of a successful outcome while reuniting families. Intervention services in Maryland or elsewhere that leave the family out of recovery do not address the whole environment.
What to Consider When Choosing a Professional Addiction & Mental Health Interventionist
Family Intervention Support and Resources in Maryland and Nationwide
After the in-person face-to-face intervention, families move into our ongoing S.A.F.E.® family recovery coaching program. Our curriculum provides families with weekly support, collaboration with your loved one’s treatment team, treatment refusal support, several different group options, one-on-one phone calls when necessary, and resources for additional help in your area. These other services include Al-Anon, Families Anonymous, ACOA (Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families), and CoDA (Codependency Anonymous) Meetings. In addition, we encourage families to seek individual therapy and marital counseling should the situation warrant it. The family and their loved one will benefit from the family building a recovery program for themselves that is at least equal to their loved one’s recovery program. Family recovery may sound like a tall ask, dramatically increasing the probability of success for your loved one when the family improves.
Addiction and Mental Health Resources are everywhere, including in Maryland. When considering resources, please consider Interventionists and treatment agencies that address the family’s needs. Our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services and addiction and Mental Health resources are available to Maryland residents, or anywhere else your family and loved one may need us.
“The most formidable challenge we professionals face is families not accepting our suggested solutions. Rather, they only hear us challenging theirs. Interventions are as much about families letting go of old ideas as they are about being open to new ones. Before a family can do something about the problem, they must stop allowing the problem to persist. These same thoughts and principles apply to your loved one in need of help.”
Mike Loverde, MHS, CIP
