Addiction and Mental Health Disorder Intervention Services in Virginia

Interventionists In Virginia

Families across Virginia are navigating complex addiction and mental health challenges. Family First Intervention provides structure and support.

Our S.A.F.E.® program helps families create meaningful, lasting change.

Virginia and the rest of the country have many resources for addicts and alcoholics. There are many resources available for those who need mental health treatment, too. The problem is that the services your loved one needs may not be in your area, and if they are, they may not be covered by your insurance or affordable. Even with those obstacles overcome, are the services in Virginia too close to the environment where your loved one struggles? Will your family be able to maintain healthy boundaries while your loved one is being treated for mental health, alcohol, and drug addiction locally in Virginia? All of these questions are part of the intervention process. Interventions are not as simple as someone coming into your home to talk your loved one into treatment. Interventions require much more.

Family First Intervention is a team of professionals that understand the family needs at least as much help as their loved one. Any professional who only focuses on helping your loved one with treatment is not addressing the damage caused to the family by the behaviors of the addiction or mental health problems. Our S.A.F.E.® Intervention and Family Recovery Coaching Program has a full-scale curriculum to assist families after the intervention. From our intervention coordinators to our interventionists and family counselors afterward, we understand and see the bigger picture. It is not what happens at the intervention but what you will do after it.

Families of loved ones experiencing alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health concerns need help before attempting to help their loved ones.

One of the most significant challenges we face in Virginia is local one or two-person intervention teams helping families with DIY interventions. Not all of them do, and this is becoming a trend across the country, and we are seeing it more in Virginia and the surrounding states. Families who are vulnerable sign up for this service, believing somebody can empower them to do their own intervention for a small fee. Families can try to talk to their loved ones and, with any luck, help them see the need to check into treatment. Seeing the need to check in and checking in and following through are two entirely different outcomes. Where this approach will fail every time is when the family believes this is a solution for themselves, too. Nobody can teach a family or anyone else how to therapize themselves. Interventionists in Virginia who try to sell families how to do their intervention without a professional are doing a disservice to the family, their loved one in need of addiction or mental health help, and the profession. The whole purpose of an intervention is to help families after the intervention; it is not to teach them how to talk their loved one into treatment.

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. 

In-Depth and Detailed Family Recovery Coaching Through Family First Intervention

Family First Intervention could offer additional services and fees to make more money. We do not do it if it does not make sense and is not about the long-term benefits or solutions. At Family First Intervention, we do not have time to defer valuable resources to services with no long-term or short-term benefit. Your family has spent enough time and resources on addiction and mental health. Your resources are better utilized in your family recovery and strategies that hold your loved one accountable and break you of codependent behaviors.

We do two things, and we do them well:

Family First Intervention offers the most comprehensive addiction and mental health intervention services nationwide

Family First Intervention offers the most in-depth and detailed family recovery coaching available today

Many interventionists try to play therapist and clinician while adding on family recovery and coaching services. None of these interventionists is qualified or licensed to do that. Interventionists must stay in their lane after the person accepts help. The best outcomes come from your loved one’s treatment team and the treatment center’s family program. If you choose an interventionist who offers support services after a successful intervention, it will create friction and discrepancies in your loved one’s treatment; we have gone down that road, and it does not work.

Why You Need a Professional Interventionist

The desired outcome of the intervention process is that regardless of your loved one’s decision to accept or refuse help, the family will understand how to cope and navigate either outcome.