Craft Family Group: Loving Someone Through Addiction Recovery

If you’re in a relationship with someone struggling with substance use or in recovery, then this group is designed for you. The Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT)-based psychotherapy group helps you understand and address the concerns you may have for your and for yourself.  Participants are open to exploring how their role in the relationship can support positive change and how they can thrive regardless of their loved one’s recovery.

Our group therapists will help you learn skills proven effective for decreasing your loved one’s harmful substance use, increasing willingness to enter treatment and improving your own overall well-being. Skills and topics include: thriving through recovery, goal setting and problem-solving, positive communication, understanding use patterns, behavioral change principles (when to step in and when to allow consequences), strategies for talking about treatment and sourcing appropriate treatment options, plus relapse and relationship progress. Practicing and implementing these skills creates more space for sober and recovery behaviors to flourish while also helping track toward long-term recovery goals.

We’ll help you set your own goals that are unique to your personal situation. These may include encouraging your loved one to enter treatment, supporting their recovery, tolerating their ambivalence to change or moderation, and feeling better yourself. You’ll be asked to participate in skills practice and share your struggles and solution suggestions based on personal experience – as much as you are comfortable doing so. Homework assignments will be given each week to further your skills practice. Space will also be made for exploration of current themes and topics relevant to the group beyond the topics listed.