Our Integrated Team of Interventionists, Family Recovery Coaches, Intervention Counselors, and Intervention Coordinators provide Mental Health and Addiction Intervention Services in Florida and Nationwide
Through our S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Intervention & Family Recovery Coaching Program, we can provide families and their loved ones in Florida or anywhere else in the country with substance use or mental health disorder intervention and post-intervention support.
Florida has more treatment centers and resources for addiction and dual diagnosis than elsewhere. With an overabundance of treatment options comes a surplus of interventionists who often work with or for the centers in Florida. It is not to say these interventionists are incapable of helping your loved one seek help. What frequently lacks is the inability to assist families during and after the intervention while remaining unbiased, as they may act as potential advocates for the treatment center. Is the interventionist tied to a center in Florida there for your family and your loved one, or are they there for the treatment center? If you are only looking to have someone talk your loved one into treatment or are only interested in learning how to do that yourself, you do not have to pay for that. Having someone talk your loved one into treatment in Florida can be accomplished by members of your local Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous meetings free of charge. If the family is interested in changing themselves, the toxic environment to both family and their loved one, and addressing any behaviors and communication that can compromise the outcome, then you need a professional intervention organization with multiple staff and personnel who work together to accomplish this goal.
Intervention companies with an integrated staff of several departments, all dedicated to your family, are rare, even in Florida, with outstanding access to treatment facilities. Family First Intervention understands getting your loved one to treatment is easy; keeping them there and following through with their recovery afterward is another challenge. At Family First Intervention, we are not there for us, nor for the treatment center; we are there for your family and your loved one. Our addiction and mental health intervention services offer families in-depth support before, during, and, most importantly, after the intervention.
Meet Our Experienced Intervention Counselors
Mike Loverde, MHS, CIP
Clinical Director & Founder, Family First Intervention
Lisa Loverde, CADC
CFO & Compliance Officer
Adam Faulkner
CEO
Jeff Lukas
COO
Regina Greene, MS, NLP
Director of S.A.F.E.® Family Recovery
Lydia Negron, MT-BC
S.A.F.E.® Family Recovery & Post Intervention Support
Meghan Gaydos, MA
S.A.F.E.® Family Recovery & Post Intervention Support
Alaina Fountain
Intervention Coordinator
Megan Torrez
Intervention Coordinator
Natali Chuvala
Intervention Coordinator
Makayla Zubal
Administrative Assistant
An intervention is not about how to control your loved one with a substance use or mental health disorder; it is about learning how to let go of believing you can.
How are S.A.F.E.® Intervention and Family Recovery Coaching for Addiction & Mental Health Works
The hard work comes after the formal face-to-face intervention with your family and your loved one. Most calls from families in Florida or anywhere else in the country are from those whose loved one has gone to treatment or attempted to correct the addiction or mental health concern multiple times. The common denominator in almost all of these situations is families who did nothing different; they only allowed the substance user or loved one with a mental health disorder the opportunity of trying to better themselves. When only one piece of the broken family system is addressed, it is near impossible for anyone of the family members, including the one with mental health or addiction concerns, to improve.
Most of our resources support the family and your loved one after the intervention. We offer several groups throughout the week for families. The core of the S.A.F.E.® curriculum is the weekly meeting we have with your family and the weekly meetings we have with your loved one’s clinical team at the treatment center. In these meetings with the family, we guide families on numerous challenges they will face, including addiction and mental health behaviors while in treatment and codependency and enabling that can occur during and after treatment. Family roles and how they can be productive and counterproductive to the recovery process for both family and loved one are also addressed. The better the family gets, the greater the likelihood your loved one will improve too.
Our weekly meetings with the treatment center your loved one is in are crucial to the outcome of their treatment stay. We will inevitably uncover significant discrepancies throughout your loved one’s treatment stay. It is common for the center to believe your loved one is doing better than they are because they are only hearing their side of things. When enrolled in our S.A.F.E.® program, we can see those discrepancies and allow you a voice in the treatment plan of your loved one. Why are they putting on a show at the center and calling the family with anger showing their true colors? If not addressed while your loved one is in treatment, it will continue after they leave treatment.
Alcoholic, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Intervention Resources in Florida
Families have options in Florida and elsewhere in the United States for Intervention, Addiction, and Mental Health Services. Wherever your loved one ends up for treatment, your family can increase the opportunity for a successful outcome by being in a family recovery program themselves. Families in Florida or anywhere else who choose to end being part of the cycle of failed treatment attempts by their loved ones can take care of themselves. Families frequently engage in ineffective communication and behaviors that may decrease the chances their loved one will get better and, in turn, increase the number of times they try to improve. We would never say it is the family’s fault because it isn’t. Families of loved ones with addiction and mental health concerns have to be shown and taught how to take their lives back. It starts with education and identifying the years of manipulation by your loved one. There was a time when you wouldn’t allow this, and now it is your way of life. It does not have to be this way. Before choosing an intervention company, ask yourselves how many times you want to do this before you can’t do this anymore.
“The most formidable challenge we professionals face is families not accepting our suggested solutions. Rather, they only hear us challenging theirs. Interventions are as much about families letting go of old ideas as they are about being open to new ones. Before a family can do something about the problem, they must stop allowing the problem to persist. These same thoughts and principles apply to your loved one in need of help.”
Mike Loverde, MHS, CIP