Imagine the scene. You sleep easy at night knowing that your loved one is finally in a treatment centre, being treated for the addictive behaviours that have ravaged them and you in the painful recent past. You had battled so hard, trying everything you knew. Yet now, using proven Intervention techniques, you have found success.

When a person says “yes” to an offer of help, it is an emotional moment. After months or years of frustration, fear, anxiety, and pain, to finally be able to engage a loved one with effective help is a very powerful moment.

Family Interventions that have the best chance of working are well-planned, bespoke, staged events that match your situation exactly. Your experienced Interventionist will guide you every step of the way.

Intervention is the opposite of doing nothing. If you do nothing and believe that this situation is only going to get worse, then Intervention is an effective and proven method for bringing about recovery for the family and the addict or alcoholic.

The power to intervene in the drug, alcohol, or gambling problems of a loved one is nothing short of a small miracle when you consider the nature of this type of problem. A family that is at its wit’s end with a loved one’s lifestyle, behaviours, chemical, or alcohol use will be desperately tired with the experience.

They will have tried everything at their disposal, but now feeling at rock bottom of their own, will often turn to a Family Intervention process. They will be coached, supported, and helped to place a loved one into active recovery, pertinent to all the factors unique to that situation. An Interventionist is the specialist and experienced counsellor who will handhold, facilitate, and prepare them for this whole process.

Interventions for addictions, alcohol, and behavioural addictions were put into practice by the American court system, as they found that coerced treatment was just as successful as any other motivation for taking detox and treatment.

Family Intervention is, as the name suggests, a process when a family intervenes in a person’s refusal to accept effective help.

Interventions are now a mature and proven method for the “others,” the “concerned others,” to affect a profound change, such that a previously resistant person will say yes to an offer of appropriate and planned treatment.

Family and workplace interventions have evolved and developed over the years, with many books and models proving themselves time and time again. Our ACT intervention model meets you where you are at, matching your family’s needs, bringing in the right components, and approach whatever the situation.

The principles of effective intervention are the same; however, the details of each vary depending on the client and the addiction patterns. View the condition as treatable, remove the enabling, operate as a supportive group, and keep dignity and love at the heart of the process while learning new communication tools and methods.