Reducing anxiety through transparency with David Gulden, LMFT, LMHC When You’ve Made the Decision The decision to move forward with a professional intervention for your loved one is a significant step. While every intervention is unique, understanding what typically happens on the day itself can help ease your anxiety and prepare you for this important […]
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Why Family Systems Matter: The Holistic Approach to Intervention
Understanding addiction as a family disease with David Gulden, LMFT, LMHC Addiction: A Family Disease When addiction enters a family, it never affects just one person. Like a stone dropped in water, its ripples touch everyone, changing relationships, roles, and the very structure of family life. This is why a family systems approach to intervention […]
What Does a Professional Interventionist Actually Do?
When a loved one is struggling with addiction, families often reach a breaking point – you’ve tried conversations, arguments, ultimatums, and nothing seems to work. The person you care about continues spiraling downward, unable or unwilling to seek help. This is where a professional interventionist comes in, but what exactly do we do? Beyond What […]
Do You Suspect a Loved One of Having an Addiction?
It can be confusing if you suspect your loved one has an addiction. People with addictions become masters at hiding them. However, this takes energy and guile. Eventually, their efforts erode, and their caution begins to slip. The family wonders what is happening to their loved one. Soon, their excuses and your excuses for them […]
It Is Possible for Your Loved One to Break Free From Addiction
There is hope for your loved one that they can break free from addiction. However, just like other serious diseases, addiction requires professional treatment for people to recover. Family members who want to see their loved one break free from addiction can help by educating themselves. It helps to understand what addiction is and how […]
How to Recognize Addiction in a Loved One
Recognizing addiction in a loved one can be painful. Often we do not want to acknowledge the warning signs. Regardless, addiction is a serious condition that needs to be taken seriously, or it will continue to get worse. In the book Addicted?: Recognizing Destructive Behaviors Before It’s Too Late, author Marilyn Freimuth discusses addiction in […]
How Do I Know if My Loved One Is Right for an Intervention?
When a loved one is struggling with substance abuse or mental health problems, it can be challenging to see the big picture and know the best way to help them. If you haven’t confronted them yet, you may be waiting and unsure how to approach them, not wanting to make things worse. If you have […]
The Importance of Finding a Proper Interventionist
There is nothing more frightening than seeing a loved one be consumed and controlled by an addiction. The changes in their routine and constant mood swings indicate that their struggle can be getting the best of them. Gradually seeing changes in someone’s behavior can be difficult to understand, especially when you are unaware of what […]
Seeking Treatment for Loved Ones: Why Choose Florida?
Seeking addiction treatment for the first time can be nerve-racking and overwhelming. As an ordinary person coping with life, both legal and illegal substances are easily accessible to help one unwind at the end of a long day. Due to a lack of awareness of the extent of harm substances can cause, substance use continues […]
What Is Family Systems Theory?
The “family systems theory” is a complex dynamic practiced between individuals and their families. It can be a reaction consisting of emotional responses and an expectation of certain outcomes that can inhibit or promote an individual’s way of thinking. When thinking of a “family,” there may be an expectation placed on parents from children and […]