Addiction and Mental Health Disorder Intervention Services in Vermont

Our S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Intervention Services Help Families in Vermont Learn How to Help their Loved One’s Addiction, Mental Health Disorders, and Behaviors Before they ask for Help or Hit Bottom.

People who have an addiction and mental health disorders often have destructive and manipulative behaviors. When these behaviors take the family hostage, families take on maladaptive behaviors and roles to cope with and adapt to the stressful change. The result is that families almost always choose the route of inaction while waiting for their loved one to ask for help, want help, or hit bottom. While your family is waiting, they’re almost always at their bottom and want help. The question is, why are you waiting for them and not taking charge yourselves?

Families are beaten into a state of emotional unreasonableness by their loved ones with addiction and mental health struggles. It is not until a family takes the first step that things start to change. Even if your loved one were to take the first step, it is often short-lived because the family rarely, if ever, does anything different for themselves. Families in Vermont and elsewhere can be taught, educated, and counseled on what to do and why to do it. The greatest gift we bring families outside of our experience and education is an unbiased understanding of the situation. What we mean by this is families cannot see the forest for the trees when it is their loved one. Sometimes, the best, yet hard to hear, advice comes from people we do not know.

That said, sometimes the worst advice comes from strangers and people we know well. Telling someone they must wait until their loved one asks for or wants help or hits bottom is dangerous and wrong. What they are saying is to sit back and wait for them to get worse while they take you with them. Easy for the outsider looking on to say, and not so easy for you to do. Whether your loved one accepts help or not, our S.A.F.E.® Addiction and Mental Health Disorder Intervention Services in Vermont and Nationwide help families help themselves, which then helps their loved ones. Intervention happens before they ask for help and hit the bottom; sometimes, the bottom cannot be reversed. 

How Our Vermont Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services Work and Why Your Family Does Not Have to Wait for Their Loved One to Hit Bottom.

Starting with the first call to our office, we help the original caller and their family understand the importance of family recovery. After setting up the addiction and mental health intervention, we send our professional interventionists to your home in Vermont or wherever else you ask us to be for the face-to-face family meeting. During the family meeting, you will understand how and why you came to this point. For those who desire positive change, we will help you get to a better place and show you how not to return to the place you just asked for help to get out of. 

You will learn about enabling, codependency, family roles, and behaviors during your family preparation. During our S.A.F.E.® Family Intervention training, you will understand how badly your loved one has manipulated you and led you to believe you are powerless to act. It will all start to make sense as you realize you have been duped, and you have all been put in a box for the greater good of perpetuating your loved one’s addiction or mental health. Remember, they need you to help them stay sick. You do not need them to keep you sick. Your loved one needs you more than they need their addiction or mental health. If this were false information, you would not be in the position you are in and would not be reading this. Families can take their lives back and offer their loved ones help. Regardless of your loved one’s decision, your family can press forward in their recovery.

At the intervention, your family and the interventionist will meet in person with your loved one. The face-to-face meeting, often considered a confrontation by family, is the part families fear the most, yet it is the easiest part. The hard part will come after the intervention when your loved ones’ behaviors and your family’s behavior go through extreme volatility. In the meantime, back at the intervention, we will do everything we can to help your loved ones see the need to accept help. We can only do this with your family, setting boundaries and holding them accountable. Regardless of the outcome, once the intervention is over, your family will join our S.A.F.E.® Addiction and Mental Health Family Recovery Coaching. Our intervention services are designed for your family to heal and grow after the intervention. Whether your family is in Vermont or elsewhere, our S.A.F.E.® Intervention Services curriculum is offered online for your convenience. If your loved one is in treatment, we will help you with reactivity and volatility until you build a recovery network and understand how to stand firm. Should your loved one decline help at the intervention, we will work with you until you know you have done all you can. Always remember to stay positive. Most accept help after saying no to the intervention if the family engages in our aftercare and follows instructions.

Initial Consultation

Our process starts with a phone call to our office. When the family agrees, we move to a family consultation call. We begin the assessment phase after the family has approved the intervention.

Arranging the Treatment Plan and the Logistics for the Intervention

The next step is arranging the treatment plan and the logistics for the intervention. Upon arrival, our interventionist utilizes our S.A.F.E.® Intervention and Family Recovery Coaching manual as a guide.

Face-To-Face Intervention

The following day is the face-to-face intervention with your family, the interventionist, and your loved one. Regardless of the outcome, your family will move into our S.A.F.E.® program for guidance and support. The S.A.F.E.® curriculum consists of weekly family meetings with several support groups offered throughout the week. One-on-one support is available and reserved for families actively engaged in our meetings and support groups. Families are assigned homework assignments to work on goals and process the work they do for themselves outside of the S.A.F.E.® curriculum.

Outside Work for Families

The outside work can include Al-Anon, Families Anonymous, CoDA, A.C.O.A. meetings, marriage and family therapy, and individual counseling. We also encourage families to participate in hobbies and self-care activities. The S.A.F.E.® Addiction and Mental Health Intervention Services and Family Recovery Coaching program is designed to help families take their lives back, regardless of whether their loved one agrees to accept your gift of a second chance at life.