Intervention Services for families of loved ones in North Carolina with an Addiction or Mental Health Disorder who are waiting for their loved one to ask for help or hit bottom

What our Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services do for Families and their Loved Ones in North Carolina and Nationwide

After enough time, the behaviors and maladaptive coping skills acquired to survive the loved ones’ addiction or mental health become the new normal. Families find it difficult to dig out of the hole their loved one has put them in and that they have been allowed to climb into. Far too often, families are more fearful of trying something different than staying the same. We understand that and built our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services program around these concepts. Plenty of interventionists in North Carolina and elsewhere will provide you with a perspective from the addict, alcoholic, or loved one with a mental health disorder point of view. Where they are often unable to assist due to a lack of education and insight is the psychology of the affected family system. Telling someone not to enable is easy; helping them understand why they enable and to do the work necessary to identify how not to enable any longer is easier said than done. Why are some family members on board with helping their loved ones while others fight the solution? All of these behaviors stem from the development of an unhealthy family system.

Telling someone not to do something does not provide a solution. Many of you know that when you tell someone with an addiction or mental health disorder not to do something, they often do the opposite. Families are the same way. Unless you are educated, coached, and counseled on how your family arrived here, you will inevitably return to where you started. If we only told our loved ones not to drink alcohol, not to use drugs, or to stay medication compliant for their mental disorder, would that be enough? Treatment for addiction and mental health is an inside job, not a don’t do this, do that speech. Interventionists in North Carolina and across the country are not well-versed in this perspective and, therefore, cannot pass it on to you. Many interventionists may not have enough staff members and resources with a comprehensive family curriculum to assist. Families in North Carolina have choices. It is essential to consider the family’s recovery in these choices.

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Not All Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services Are The Same

Interventions have been around for a very long time. Intervention is a clinical instrument utilized by counselors, therapists, doctors, psychiatrists, and mental health and addiction professionals. Interventions are strategies used to meet the goal of addressing and correcting a problem or behavior. Since the inception of the television show Intervention, interventions have become a speech or a contentious meeting between the family, the interventionists, and the intended patient. The intervention show is not an intervention; unfortunately, it is a common belief in society that it is. Interventions are not speeches or paid twelve-step calls. They are strategies trained professionals use to help the family and their loved one down the most effective path of recovery.

Whether your family or your loved one is in North Carolina or anywhere else in the country, Family First Intervention can and will help. Our S.A.F.E.® Intervention and Family Recovery Coaching program guides your family and loved ones down evidenced-based treatment paths. Hiring an interventionist who is one person with no support staff is just replicating the show, which is not an intervention; it is a paid twelve-step call or speech. Hiring an interventionist that will only tell you what not to do and can’t articulate why you do it is not an intervention; they are just repeating what many have told you already. For families at their bottom and ready to ask for or accept help, an intervention that addresses the entire family system is your answer. If you’re only interested in your loved one going to treatment again and nothing else, then the solo or coached interventionist is your answer. We have tried both, and there is a reason why we do things differently. If we do not address the whole problem, we leave too many open doors for things to return to where they started. Your family deserves more, and your loved one does too.