Mental Health and Addiction Intervention Services in Nebraska
Our S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Intervention and Family Recovery Coaching Services in Nebraska and Nationwide Help Families of Loved Ones with Mental Health and Addiction Problems Start the Recovery Process
Families often do not know what to do when faced with a loved one struggling with being an alcoholic, having an addiction to drugs, or suffering from mental health concerns. Families and their loved ones often make decisions in a flooded emotional state. The loved one with addiction and mental health frequently looks for treatment options with the path of least resistance through distorted lenses of perception. As a result of failed attempts, it is not uncommon for families to believe that addiction and mental health interventions do not work and for the substance user or person with mental health to think that treatment does not work. What is often misunderstood is that for things to change, people must change. We can’t go through the motions thinking or believing that the intervention or treatment will do all the work for us.
Our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services curriculum helps families in Nebraska or anywhere else in the Country. You need us to help you understand addiction behaviors and family roles, among many other things. Two of the largest misconceptions are that the family does not see how their behaviors and family roles have contributed to the problem and that addiction and mental health are behavioral problems before they are drug or alcohol problems. Alcohol and drugs are the ineffective solution to the real problem. Some people use drugs and alcohol to medicate mental health symptoms; for others, alcohol and drugs cause mental health symptoms. Whether your family is in Nebraska or anywhere else in the Country, our addiction and mental health intervention services can help educate you about your family and loved ones’ problems and guide you through effective intervention and addiction and mental health treatment solutions.
Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services are Not Just About Talking a Loved One into Treatment
The television show or public perception about interventions could make one believe that someone can come to your home and talk sense into your loved one, they will go to treatment, and all will be well. We see interventions all the time on television or hear about them in celebrity news, and they even make jokes about them on late-night talk shows and social media; this is not a professional intervention, nor should it be looked at that way. An intervention is when addiction and mental health professionals come together as an intervention services team to help your family and your loved one. The guidance is most important after the intervention, something you have not heard of or considered. The part that involves talking to your loved one and reading letters is the easiest and quickest part, yet families are most fearful of this part based on what they have been led to believe an intervention is. The most involved part of the intervention is setting it up and holding it together after, not the middle part, where we interact with your loved one.
When families hear this, they sometimes think we are wrong; yes, it is an insight you may have never heard before or considered. We spend more time helping families get on the same page before the intervention and even more time keeping families on the same page after the intervention. During the intervention, the professional does all the heavy lifting, and families read their letters. So much more is involved than the “get them to say yes” belief. Families whose loved ones accept help and go to treatment unravel within the first week due to the rebalancing and recognition of the unhealthy family roles that perpetuated the problem. We are not saying the family caused the problems; we are saying they continued the situation in the way they acted out the dysfunctional roles due to the addiction and mental health stressors. Now that the loved one is in treatment and no longer to blame, families, driven by multiple forms of fear, lash out in anger. The behaviors are commonplace; they happen almost every time. Family First Intervention built our addiction and mental health intervention services for this in Nebraska and every other state in the Country.
What to Consider When Choosing a Professional Addiction & Mental Health Interventionist
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.
Resources for Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services in Nebraska
Intervention Services and treatment agencies in Nebraska and elsewhere are created differently. Nebraska has addiction, mental health, and interventionist resources like every other state. What you should be looking for is what we said above: an intervention company with an entire family curriculum and multiple staff members. Families often gravitate to the local interventionist in their area for comfort and ease of delivery. They usually do not consider the client-counselor relationship, which is the number one predictor of outcomes and the ability of the professionals to help you afterward. As we stated earlier, families often believe they need a local professional to come and talk to their loved ones. If that is all you want, go to your local Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous meeting hall and ask a group of members to come and do that for free as part of their service commitment. Consider this: although we locally service Nebraska, our interventionist nearest you may not be the one coming to you after we complete our assessment. When you commit to a local one-person team based on ease and comfort, you limit the ability to bring in the most appropriate person to help you from beginning to end.
“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
Nebraska has treatment resources; some may be appropriate for your loved one. The only way to determine the treatment plan is after a clinical assessment. There are resources nationwide that may be more applicable to your family and your loved ones’ addiction or mental health disorder needs. Studies show that people who leave their environment, another leading factor of successful outcomes, complete treatment much more than those who remain local to their environment. Our Intervention Services work with you to help present and discuss all the adequate resources and options while expressing the pros and cons. When you understand intervention, addiction, and mental health, your family has a more significant opportunity to receive a successful outcome for themselves and their loved ones.
