Programs for Families and Individuals Affected by Addiction

Whether you are a family member challenged by the addiction of a loved one or you are an individual seeking change and have a desire for a life with meaning, our Family and Individual Recovery Programs offer a safe space where the hope, change, and understanding you seek are possible.

"Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant."― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Just as no two canoes paddle identical routes to reach safe harbour, each person's recovery voyage is unique and faces different rapids and portages. Each person's path is shaped by their experiences, needs, and circumstances. Our programs honour this individuality whilst providing evidence-based support and time-tested wisdom to guide you towards healing and wholeness.

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Family Care Program

A Recovery Modality for Those Who've Become Collateral Damage

Addiction doesn't just affect the individual—it creates ripples throughout the entire family system. Our Family Care Program is specifically designed for family members who feel they have become the collateral damage of a loved one's addiction. You matter, your pain is valid, and your healing is essential.

Understanding Family Impact:

Recognition of Unique Experiences: Our Family Care Programs are carefully tailored to meet the unique needs of each family member, recognising that the impact of addiction varies significantly depending on one's role within the person's 'herd.' Whether you're a spouse, parent, child, sibling, or extended family member, your experience matters and deserves specialised attention.

Roles Within the Family System:

• Spouses/Partners: Dealing with broken trust, codependency, and relationship trauma
• Parents: Navigating guilt, enabling behaviours, and knowing when to support, advocate and when to step back
• Children/Young Adults: Processing confusion, abandonment, and developing healthy boundaries
• Siblings: Managing resentment, family dynamics, and their own emotional needs
• Extended Family: Understanding their role in support versus enabling

Program Structure:

Integrated Therapeutic Approach: Our Family Care Program blends proven concepts and learning methodologies:

Family Systems Theory:

• Understanding how addiction affects the entire 'herd'
• Identifying unhealthy patterns and roles within the family structure
• Learning to change family dynamics that perpetuate the addiction cycle

Motivational Interviewing:

• Exploring your own motivations for change and healing
• Developing intrinsic commitment to your personal recovery process
• Building confidence in your ability to make positive changes

Al-Anon Principles:

• Embracing the concepts of powerlessness over another's addiction
• Learning to "detach with love" while maintaining healthy boundaries
• Understanding the difference between helping, advocating and enabling

Program Details:

• Duration: 6 weeks of structured learning and healing
• Session Length: 1.5 hours per session for comprehensive exploration
• Delivery Method: Virtual sessions for convenience and privacy
• Group or Individual: Options available based on preference and need

Recovery Options:

Individual Family Member Healing:

• Focus on your personal recovery and healing voyage, developing skills and understanding to navigate your relationship with addiction's impact on your life.

Family Recovery Together: For families ready to heal collectively, we offer support for recovering together with your loved one, creating a unified approach to healing and rebuilding trust.

What You Can Expect:

Personal Healing Focus:

• Processing grief and loss related to addiction's impact
• Developing emotional regulation and coping skills
• Learning to set and maintain healthy boundaries
• Building self-esteem and reclaiming your identity
• Understanding codependency and enabling patterns

Relationship Repair:

• Communication skills for difficult conversations
• Rebuilding trust and intimacy where appropriate
• Learning when and how to offer support versus when to step back
• Creating safety within the family environment

Practical Tools:

• Crisis management strategies
• Relapse response planning
• Self-care practices and stress management
• Resource identification and support network building

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Individual Recovery Programs

Tailored Support for Personal Change

Our Individual programs are specifically tailored to each client's unique recovery needs and circumstances. We understand that what works for one person may not work for another, which is why we offer a flexible blend of clinically proven modalities designed to meet you exactly where you are in your recovery voyage.

Program Features:

Personalised Approach:

• Comprehensive assessment to understand your specific needs, goals, and previous experiences
• Customised treatment plans that respect your preferences and boundaries
• No imposed therapies that you may find objectionable or have had unsuccessful experiences with previously
• Flexible integration of various therapeutic modalities based on your comfort level and effectiveness

Clinical Modalities Available:

• Trauma-informed therapeutic approaches
• Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• SMART Recovery tools and techniques
• Mindfulness-based interventions

12-Step Integration (Optional):

• Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) principles and step work
• Peer-supported components when desired
• Sponsorship guidance and fellowship connection
• Spiritual exploration and development

Flexible Delivery:

• Virtual Sessions: Convenient online therapy from the comfort of your home
• In-Person Sessions: Face-to-face therapeutic support when preferred
• Program Lengths: Choose from 4, 8, or 12-week programs based on your needs and goals

Ongoing Support:

Day Tripping - A Recovery Modality designed for the individual who has completed a treatment program and desires additional support navigating a return to living a life, perhaps one with meaning.

Many modalities of recovery talk about one day at a time and how recovery is a voyage not a destination, it's a marathon not a sprint. Sometimes it's more of a reclamation, which can feel like getting to know the who you were before addiction started driving your car and steering you down the wrong road.

In this recovery scenario folks can start taking the wheel back and become Day Trippers as they learn to navigate the path ahead while not straying too far from the safety of home by returning each night before dark.

In individual sessions, we often rely on "Inventory Steps" as explained in a 12 Step modality to recovery. Steps 4 and 5 help us identify and unburden ourselves from those areas where we deviated from our path. We examine how we sometimes harmed others through our underperformance, letting down ourselves and those closest to us. Once these concerns have been addressed, we begin to look forward with cautious optimism while recognising that triggers may still activate us, sometimes bringing about relapse.

By Day Tripping, we take things slow and reintegrate ourselves into daily living with the understanding that we cannot cocoon ourselves from all influences but can be prepared and inoculate ourselves by taking in life in smaller doses.

Day Tripper, not just a catchy melody but a method of tuning in after being tuned out for too long.

Alumni Group: Upon program completion, each client is encouraged to participate in our weekly Alumni Group—a cornerstone of sustained recovery support. This group provides:

• Continued guidance facilitated by a qualified counsellor
• Peer-supported encouragement and shared experiences
• Accountability and motivation for long-term recovery success
• A community of individuals committed to ongoing growth and healing

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Grief Program

The Taboo Topic that we are afraid to discuss but must if we are to heal.

Many recovery approaches fail to address grief and loss. When we think of losing someone to addiction, mourning feels like a natural human response to what can be tragic circumstances. Yet overcoming the fear of facing difficult realities is most often achieved when we talk to someone who understands your pain—someone who will never claim to know exactly how you feel or pretend to have simple answers to your sorrow.

True empathy isn't minimising another's experience or hurt. It's being able to sit with that person and let them know you're there. It's making space for them to talk or remain silent, to sit or stand, to cry or not—and simply being present without judgment.

So if you are grieving, let's talk. Or not. But let's do it together.

In addition to individual session work, and depending on your needs, we will explore how to move forward with your grief without letting it become all-consuming. We'll draw from meaningful work by clinicians, healers, and teachers including Rabbi Steve Leder, David Kessler, and Dr. Brené Brown.

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Our Commitment to You

Compassionate and Structured Path Forward: Regardless of which program best fits your needs, we provide a compassionate and structured path towards recovery. Our approach recognises that healing takes time, courage, and support. We're here to walk alongside you, offering professional guidance while honouring your autonomy and individual voyage.

Meeting You Where You Are: Recovery begins wherever you are today. Whether you're taking your first tentative steps towards change or you're ready to dive deep into transformation, our programs are designed to meet you exactly where you are, without judgement or unrealistic expectations.

Hope and Possibility: Above all, our programs are founded on hope—hope that change is possible, that healing can occur, and that life can be different. Your story is not finished, and recovery offers the opportunity to write new chapters filled with meaning, connection, and joy.

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Getting Started

Recovery is a courageous choice, and seeking help demonstrates strength, not weakness. If you're ready to explore how our programs might support your healing voyage, we invite you to reach out. Your first step towards recovery starts with a single conversation.

Remember: You don't have to wait for your loved one to get sober to begin your own healing voyage. Your recovery matters, and you deserve support, understanding, and hope.