Consultations
Pre- and Post-Intervention Consultations can offer additional support to families.
The Big Book indicates that chemical dependency is “powerful, cunning and baffling”. It can be a difficult and confusing disease to address. Families often feel out of their depth when dealing with their loved ones in the grips of addiction. Sometimes they are looking for next steps in trying to get the help their loved one needs. Other times they need guidance for extending appropriate support, enacting boundaries, or doing their own recovery work. I began to offer consultation services because the families and individuals I worked with asked me to.
It may be important to note that consultation is not counseling. Consultation is a more practical, solution-focused and results-oriented conversation. While providing advice, giving guidance, asking questions and dispensing information, I focus on WHAT needs to be done. Counseling on the other hand is a more process-oriented conversation, helping the client raise awareness, develop understanding and make connections. In counseling, the WHY is often more important than the what.
The consultations I offer tend to be in two categories: Pre-Intervention and Post-Intervention Consultations.
Many times, these consultations start with a family or an individual wanting to explore their next steps. They want to consider all their options before selecting the one they believe is their best choice. Sometimes a family will seek consultation even if they are planning on conducting an intervention. They may desire extra coaching on their Bottom Line or need assistance with extra difficult family dynamics heading into the intervention.
The work of a family or individual is often more complex than dealing with codependency or enabling behaviors. Chemical dependency is a family disease. It affects everybody in the family system directly in a variety of ways. For post-intervention consultations, I am often asked to provide guidance to help families understand how to extend appropriate support to their loved one, enacting boundaries, or helping families/individuals do their own recovery work.
Pre & Post-Intervention Consultation Services: $95 per hour.
There really is hope
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