Addiction & Mental Health Intervention Services for Families in Ohio and Nationwide who need help with a loved one experiencing a substance use or mental disorder
Our S.A.F.E.® (Self Awareness Family Education™) Intervention & Family Recovery Coaching Services in Ohio Provides Families of Alcoholics and those with Drug Addiction or Mental Health Concerns with evidence-based support, guidance, and experience
Families often wait for their loved ones to want help, ask for help, or hit bottom. While the family is waiting for one of these things to occur, they are often on the receiving end of their loved one’s destructive behaviors and choices. Our S.A.F.E.® Intervention and Family Recovery Coaching Curriculum allows us to offer families support and guidance for themselves and their loved ones in Ohio or anywhere else they may be. Although residents of Ohio have many choices, not all the available options may be effective for your family and your loved one. We have witnessed families since 2005 slowly adapt to their loved one’s addiction and mental health problems. What ends up happening is families are terrified to try something different. For many families in Ohio and Nationwide, the fear of the unknown is greater than the fear of staying the same.
Our staff comprises intervention coordinators, counselors, interventionists, Family Recovery Coaches, Addiction Recovery Coaches, and an office administrator. We all work together on the front end, during and, most importantly, after the intervention. It is hard enough for a family to let go of the illusion of control before the intervention. It is even more challenging to realize that control was only an illusion after the intervention. Families in Ohio and across the country often disclose that the most challenging part of the intervention was shifting the focus from the addiction or mental health concern to having to look at themselves after the in-person intervention. Our staff understands this and built our intervention curriculum for this. If the family does not change, the loved one rarely changes themselves.
Meet Our Experienced Intervention Counselors
Mike Loverde, MHS, CIP
Clinical Director & Founder, Family First Intervention
Lisa Loverde, CADC
CFO & Compliance Officer
Adam Faulkner
CEO
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
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.
Why Our Intervention Services for Addiction and Mental Health are Different
Many interventionists in Ohio and Nationwide offer in-person interventions. Some may even try to convince you that, for a fee, you can do this yourself with their guidance over the phone. What the majority of interventionists lack is the ability to offer a complete family intervention curriculum. Furthermore, many interventionists in Ohio and across the country are only good at talking your loved one into treatment while stating the obvious about enabling behaviors. It is one thing for an interventionist whose only credential is being in recovery to explain to you not to provide your loved one with comforting resources. It is another thing to explain why you are codependent or an enabler so that you may learn why and how to not ineffectively help them again. Helping you understand the pros and cons of enabling and codependent behavior provides you will self-awareness and education for future events that may take place with your loved one. As for the other family members who have taken on unhealthy roles outside of codependency and enabling, the S.A.F.E.® intervention program is just as beneficial for them. It is helpful for others to learn how their family role can contribute to the problem or how it can add to the solution.
Our name says it all; Family First. We understand that the family wants to help their loved one, and we will never deny you that opportunity. We aim to educate you and help you make healthy choices and decisions that will affect you and your loved one. Detaching from an addict, an alcoholic, or a loved one with a mental disorder is easier said than done. An interventionist that only tells you not to do that is not helping you. The family must understand why they stayed attached and the benefits of detaching. If only told what not to do, you will most likely repeat the same behavior. If we only told the addict, alcoholic, or person with a mental disorder what not to do, how well would that work? The goal for them in treatment is the same for you in our S.A.F.E.® Family Recovery Coaching program; to help understand the why of the unhealthy behaviors and choices.
What to Consider When Choosing a Professional Addiction & Mental Health Interventionist
Interventionists Resources in Ohio and Nationwide
Ohio has its fair share of resources, as do most populous states. Having intervention, addiction, and mental health treatment resources in your area does not mean it is the best course of action for your family and your loved one. After our in-person intervention services in Ohio, we bring our S.A.F.E.® Family Recovery Coaching to your family and, when deemed appropriate, your loved one. A local treatment center in Ohio may not be the best option for your family and loved one. Although not always the case, moving people temporarily away from the familiar environment helps increase successful outcomes. Far too often, we see people leave treatment against medical advice with the help of a family member when the opportunity to do so is made easy. The distance between family members and their loved one has prevented many early discharges and allowed families to continue their recovery with less stress while their loved one continues theirs. It is much harder for families struggling with enabling and codependency to say no face-to-face than for them to say no over the phone.
Before deciding on a course of action for you and your loved one, please remember the importance of your family’s recovery. We look forward to the day when family recovery is considered at least as important as the recovery for the substance user or person with a mental health disorder. To feel that the only solution necessary is getting your loved one help is to deprive the affected family of the heartache they went through alongside their loved one.
“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
