Family Program

Addiction reshapes a household. Recovery has to include the people in it.

For families and partners

Living with a loved one's addiction affects everyone around them — partners, parents, children, siblings. The family program offers education, group support, and family therapy so that recovery can be supported at home rather than undermined.

What the program includes

Family education

Sessions on what addiction actually is (and isn't), how recovery works, what to expect over the first six months, what relapse means and doesn't mean, and what useful support actually looks like — which often isn't what families assume.

Family therapy

Structured sessions facilitated by a clinician — sometimes between client and a single family member, sometimes the whole household. The goal isn't to relitigate what happened. It's to help people communicate without the addiction sitting in the middle of every sentence.

Family groups

Group sessions with other families going through similar experiences. Hearing other people say "us too" is, for many family members, the first time they've felt less alone in years.

Individual support for family members

Codependency, anxiety, depression, grief — the things addiction does to a partner or parent. If you need your own clinical support, we can connect you to it, whether through us or through a referral.

Who participates

• Spouses and partners
• Parents of adult children in treatment
• Adult children of parents in treatment
• Siblings
• Close friends, in cases where they're part of a client's primary support system

When in the treatment process it happens

Family work usually begins once the client is past acute detox and stable in residential or PHP — not on day one. That timing matters: family sessions are emotionally heavy, and clients need to be physically and clinically steady enough to do them well.

If your loved one isn't in treatment yet

You don't have to wait. Call admissions and tell us what's happening. Often the most useful thing we can do is help a family figure out what to say, when to say it, and what to do if the person you're worried about isn't willing to come in yet.

Talk to admissions

(866) 514-7282 — confidential. Available to family members as well as prospective clients.