Pines Recovery Life: Addiction Stops Here
Family therapy for recovery in South Florida
By the time a family calls us, most of them have stopped talking to each other honestly. Somebody is covering, somebody is furious, and somebody has been paying the bills for a year. Family therapy is where that gets said out loud and worked on. Before it can start, the person with the addiction has to make a decision about getting treatment. Pines Recovery Life Detox runs the detox programs and addiction therapy that follow.
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How family therapy rebuilds connections
Our family therapy program gives a client’s family time together and a place to work through what has happened. The point is to help families understand what addiction actually is and what it does to the way a household runs. Substance use changes the chemistry of the brain and body, and that changes behavior.
Family therapy can help you understand how your relative ended up here. Most families cannot point to where it went wrong, and many carry guilt about it that they have never said out loud.
Your relative may have things they cannot say anywhere except in a session. Family therapy gives everyone a place to say them, and to find out whether what looks broken can be repaired.
The therapist runs the session and helps each person see their part in what happens next. Working with a marriage and family therapist tends to make the talking easier at home too.
Who family therapy is for
Family here does not mean blood. It means anyone with a close tie to the person in treatment. You may live together or you may see each other twice a year. The list usually includes:
Each person in the family may need their own support. The therapist works with each of you on coping and on practical answers to the behavior that keeps causing trouble at home. Children in the house usually benefit from that as much as anyone.
What goals to set
The main goal is that everyone in the family gets some support and comes out steadier than they went in.
Goals you might set for your family can include:
Therapists also work on the harder things: sibling rivalry, domestic violence, and conflicts that addiction made worse. The sessions look at emotional and physical health for everyone in the family.
What you get out of it
Sessions teach you about addiction, then show you how to use that at the kitchen table. Everyone gets a turn to say what they are worried or angry about without being cut off.
A marriage and family therapist will show each of you what to change so you can talk to each other again. You learn how to support someone without covering for them. Trust comes back slowly after that.
You get more out of it if you come in willing to look at your own part. Everyone in the room is asked to. The hard topics get put on the table instead of being walked around, which is uncomfortable and also the point.
Therapists also look at how mental health conditions and physical illness feed into what is happening at home. Sessions may draw on other approaches, including group therapy, for handling stress and building better coping habits.
Treatment here starts with detox. Some of what we run:
To ask about the therapy services we run, call Pines Recovery Life Detox at 954.569.2195, or contact us online to talk about what family therapy would look like for you.
