Our Intervention Services in Minnesota offers families help for themselves and their loved ones with a mental health disorder, drug addiction, alcohol problem, or dual diagnosis
Our S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Intervention Services provide families in Minnesota with the support and education needed to help them through the pain and struggles of their loved one’s addiction or mental health concerns
Families need as much help and support as the loved one with an addiction or mental health disorder. To think or believe the only one who needs help is the one with the “problem” is to think or believe that your family doesn’t need help. Families and loved ones in Minnesota face the same challenges as other parts of the country. These challenges are finding intervention companies equipped to offer support after the intervention. When your loved one enters treatment for an addiction, mental health disorder, or dual diagnosis, the intervention is far from over; it has just begun.
The intervention is not a contentious meeting between family members and a loved one with addiction or mental health issues. Interventions are an array of clinical instruments that professionals use. An intervention, by definition, is to utilize a specific strategy to address a problem to meet a particular goal. If a family only wants to have someone talk their loved one into treatment, they need to look no further than their fellowship hall of Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous. There, a family can find members free of charge to perform a 12-step call on their loved one and have the members check their loved one into a local program in Minnesota.
Families who want to do an addiction or mental health intervention consisting of several different strategies to address the environment and family system that may compromise the outcomes would retain a professional interventionist in Minnesota to facilitate intervention in their home.
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.
Family Intervention Support and Resources for Mental Health and Addiction in Minnesota
After an intervention, the family’s recovery is as least as important as the loved one’s recovery from addiction or mental health. Our S.A.F.E.® Intervention & Family Recovery Coaching curriculum provides ongoing support for your family and collaborates with your loved one’s treatment team. Families can join from their homes in Minnesota, and anywhere else they may be. We have seen a significant increase in successful outcomes for families and their loved ones in Minnesota due to entering a recovery program simultaneously.
What to Consider When Choosing a Professional Addiction & Mental Health Interventionist
Most of our staff members at Family First Intervention consist of counselors and support staff to help families after the intervention. Being a large team allows us to offer our S.A.F.E.® curriculum that incorporates self-help groups and offer different groups to family members. These groups include codependency, mindfulness, is my family different, and family focus groups. With our intervention manual as a guide, our goal is to help address your struggles and work on your strengths. We do this by helping you incorporate additional outside resources in Minnesota or anywhere else your family may be in the United States.
Your loved one’s recovery will take much more than just themselves to recover from an addiction, mental health disorder, or dual diagnosis. The family’s recovery will require at least the same amount of energy and resources. When you think about it, your loved one is one person who will need several people and resources to help them. A family consisting of many people, all affected differently, will need many more resources and strategies during their recovery. It is vital for families in Minnesota to understand that while you may have solo interventionists in Minnesota, they may not have the resources and staff available to provide you with everything you need before, during, and after the intervention.
“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
