Counselling for Addict and Families on Alcoholism Vancouver

Families Do Recover Offers a Range of Counselling Services

"It (having an addicted child) is so stressful and you can crumble around this. Parents get divorced, families explode, so we need to get help by going to therapy or going to Al-Anon meetings or whatever it is. The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn’t make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions. You can suffer a lot less."
~ David Sheff, Author of 'A Beautiful Boy'

Counselling sessions are a safe place where you can sort through the thoughts and feelings to find some answers to your questions. Using different strategies and tools, we work collaboratively to find a path that works for you.

Whether you are someone with an addicted loved one, a person in active addiction or someone in recovery, counselling can help you sort through the patterns and 'dig deeper' to uncover the root of the issues and behaviours.

I believe everyone has the answers within them as to the 'why and how.' My role is to guide you to those answers in a compassionate, non-judgemental manner.

Typically, counselling is a process and it can get difficult before it gets better. Relief is there. It just takes time. Don't leave before you find your relief.

Sessions are 30, 60 or 90 minutes and are done over Skype, Zoom or in person.

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PTSD & Other Forms of Trauma

Trauma is the most misunderstood, misdiagnosed and ignored disease there is today. It is very simply an event or series of events that remain unprocessed and stuck in the central nervous system. This unprocessed scenario keeps looping with in the sub-conscious mind, re-creating itself as an actual experience in real time.

People who have an addicted or recovering loved one don't often recognize they have experienced trauma. Living in anticipation of tragedy and always feeling like life is a spin cycle of the washing machine will create unprocessed events. You can't stop the looping alone. You need help to do that.

Symptoms or trauma can present in day-to-day life in a variety of ways. Trauma therapy can eliminate those residual effects that keep us stuck.

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Individual Counselling

One-on-one counselling for someone with an addicted loved one is beneficial when the family member feels like the storm is raging and there is no where to go and no one to talk to. Counselling can give you somewhere to start the process of talking about the cycle of addiction in your family and help you find strategies and tools to help you cope, while helping your addicted loved one move towards recovery.

One-on-one counselling for someone struggling with addiction is beneficial when the addicted person is beginning to question themselves and their current dilemma. Together we explore the pattern of substance use and addiction and the possible solutions available. We create a plan and start taking baby steps to execute that plan.

One-on-one counselling for someone in recovery is beneficial when they start unearthing aspects of themselves that shed light on patterns or triggers needing to be addressed and healed. It allows someone to “dig deeper” and find the root causes of issues and start to move past old issues while encouraging the healing process.

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Family Counselling

Family Counselling is something people in recovery can benefit from. Often, it is easy during this transitional time to feel misunderstood or to struggle with old family patterns and dynamics.

A ‘Family Meeting’ allows everyone to speak a safe space to share their needs and want openly. A family session helps everyone develop an understanding of how the person in recovery has changed and what they need from the family to support their recovery journey. A family session also allows the family to voice any concerns or ask any questions with the benefit of having the counsellor present to guide the discussion and allow everyone to be heard.

Often, in these sessions, the family members are better able to see how their recovering loved one has changed and how that effects the family dynamic.

Couples Counselling

Couples Counselling is useful in many different scenarios including: parents with an addicted or recovering child, when one partner is addicted or in recovery, a couple with both partners in recovery that are experiencing challenges.

Couples counselling allows both parties a safe, supported, non-judgemental space to speak openly about their challenges, misunderstandings, needs and wants. Both parties are taught to speak and listen in a manner that allows everyone to be heard and amiable solutions to be reached.

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Phone Support

Phone support is for in-the-moment coaching when you are stuck in a situation and don't know what to say or do. You can use these coaching sessions as a way to practice the new skill you are working on or find a new way of doing or saying something because you want a different result than what you have been getting.

These 'micro-sessions' are not designed for big exploratory work. Rather, this is a time to ask questions, get direction or solve day-to-day challenges.

Phone support can be a wonderful addition to someone's recovery. Primarily used as short coaching sessions, these 15 tor 30-minute phone calls give the client a resource to bounce ideas and thoughts around with.