FAMILY COACHING
Most families that reach out to ARCS for help with an addicted loved one are well aware that they are in severe pain. In fact, it is most usually this intense pain which has motivated them to seek our counsel. However, most of these families are unaware that their anguish stems predominantly from lack of understanding about the nature and mechanics of addiction. In short, confusion is at the center of their suffering, and this can be easily ameliorated.
As one of our intervention specialists describes, "families find themselves cast into a storm-riddled sea of vicarious addiction, tossed about by the crashing waves of its compounding consequences... and we throw them the life raft of information and tools that really work. Most feel relief and a sense of being grounded, even amidst the addict's manufactured chaos, after only one session. In this instance, we have not changed the storm, but we have managed to place them in the peaceful eye of it. And, with family intervention training and ongoing case management, we can reverse years of damage in both the addicted individual and the collective family unit."
As one of our intervention specialists describes, "families find themselves cast into a storm-riddled sea of vicarious addiction, tossed about by the crashing waves of its compounding consequences... and we throw them the life raft of information and tools that really work. Most feel relief and a sense of being grounded, even amidst the addict's manufactured chaos, after only one session. In this instance, we have not changed the storm, but we have managed to place them in the peaceful eye of it. And, with family intervention training and ongoing case management, we can reverse years of damage in both the addicted individual and the collective family unit."