• Intervention. Instead of hoping they find their own bottom, the best way to help save the chemically dependent person’s life is to raise their bottom for them. You do this through the process of INTERVENTION. An intervention is anything that breaks the pattern of behavior. Intervention is a team effort. While you can’t control the abuser, you certainly control your own actions and can influence others. In the past you held up a mirror to the addict or alcoholic but their delusional thinking prevented them from seeing the truth. Intervention brings together all the significant people in the abuser’s life; all of them holding up the same mirror
  • Includes: Training the intervention team, finding the appropriate treatment facility based on your financial/insurance requirements, facilitating the intervention, and transporting the client to treatment
• Individual and Group therapy
• Family counseling
• Inpatient, Outpatient or Treatment-in-residence basis
• Recovery Coach. As opposed to the substance abuse counselor who focuses primarily on assessing, treatment planning and counseling, the recovery coach – sometimes called a sober coach or sober companion – focuses on self-empowerment and connecting the client to appropriate support within the community all throughout the recovery process
• Solution-focused therapy that is Strengths-based (i.e. motivational), Christ-centered and 12-Step oriented

What Is a “STRENGTHS-BASED” Approach To Counseling?

It is a fact that addicts and alcoholics heap upon themselves intense feelings of self-loathing, profound shame and guilt. Generally, deep down, no one feels worse about who they are or what they’ve done then the abuser themself. It is one reason that suicide is the leading cause of death among people who abuse alcohol and drugs. When an abuser states they don’t care whether they live or die, they are usually dead serious. With ten-years of personal experience as a substance abuser I know this firsthand.

That’s why it only makes good sense to work side-by-side with clients, affording them unwavering acceptance and love. Encouragement and motivation are powerful forces for change. John F. Kennedy made this point when he said; “When written in Chinese the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” The beginning of the healing process is the understanding that human beings are not defined by the past. Rather, we choose who we are every moment of every day. The client’s new, sober life adventure begins at the start of the very first session together. Challenging individuals to find meaning is the way forward.