For family members

Counseling for the people who love someone who drinks or uses drugs

This is for anyone whose life has started to revolve around someone else's drinking or drug use.

Your loved one doesn't have to be ready

You can start whether or not they know about it, and whether or not they're willing to change. Our time isn't about getting them into treatment. It's about you, and how you're holding up while this is part of your life.

What we work on

• What's yours to carry and what isn't
• Codependency, and how to step out of the patterns that keep you stuck
• Boundaries you can actually keep
• How to talk to them without every conversation turning into a fight
• Staying steady when things are calm and when they aren't
• What to do if something goes wrong, including an overdose
• Finding treatment, detox, sober living, or other help when your loved one is ready, and handling the paperwork
• The grief of watching someone you love change, while they're still here

Wherever they are right now

Your loved one might be using right now, MIA, in a treatment program, just home from one, or years into recovery. Each stage brings its own worry. A program may offer a family day or a weekly group, and that only goes so far. Individual counseling gives you room to say the things you can't say in front of them or in a room full of people.

Parents, partners, siblings, friends, and coworkers

You might be a parent of a teen or an adult child, a spouse or partner, a sibling, a grown child of a parent who drinks or uses, a close friend, or a coworker who's been covering for them. If it's affecting you, it counts.