La Vie Counseling Associates

Specialties

• Individuals & couples
• Families
• Families coping with addicted family members
• Codependency
• Divorce
• Depression
• Adolescents
• Stress & Anxiety
• Relationships
• Work related stress

Workshops

Families In Recovery Workshop: The Four Stage Path to Recovery

While recovery is an individual challenge, the position a family takes in relationship to it’s family member in recovery has a powerful effect on what shape the road to recovery can take. Families often feel lost in early recovery or over use old behaviors in their effort to continue their role to "make things better". The results can be counter productive.

Stephanie Brown, PhD., wrote about what that road to recovery looks like for the entire family based on her ten year study of families struggling with addiction. She identified four stages that a family travels through going from addiction to "new health and well being".

This workshop shares information from Dr. Stephanie Browne’s Families in Recovery Study and highlights the four stages. Families can learn where they are in the developmental process of recovery, what tools they’ll need along the way and to recognize the pitfalls and the opportunities that present themselves on the journey.

Length 60-90 minutes.

Boundaries in Recovery

Boundaries are one of the key building blocks in recovery. Becoming attuned to working on "our stuff" rather than our neighbors helps us use our energy for introspection and change most effectively. The Serenity Prayer speaks to that work: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference."

This workshop covers boundary basics, boundary language, Talking Boundaries and Listening Boundaries that can help family and supporters build new ways to communicate and keep the focus on "their side of the street."

Families In Recovery: The Developmental Model and Treatment: A Continuing Education Unit Presentation

The Family In Recovery: The Developmental Model and Treatment is a 3 hour CEU Training that is available.

While recovery is an individual challenge, the position a family takes in relationship to it’s family member in recovery has a powerful effect on what shape the road to recovery can take. Families often feel lost in early recovery or over use old behaviors in their effort to continue their role to “make things better” with counter productive results. Stephanie Brown, PhD., wrote about what that road to recovery looks like for the entire family in her book, The Alcoholic Family In Recovery: A Developmental Model. This workshop will identify the Four Stages and the three dimensions that measure a family’s evolution through recovery from their own trauma of exposure to the addiction. Clinicians can use this model to help the family develop a more productive perspective and assist the family to re-engage in the developmental tasks for the non-using side of the family that can help them return to the "new health and well being" of recovery for the family itself.

Family Weekends for Residential Recovery Programs:

The Family Weekend is a two day workshop that you can add to your residential program to expand the opportunity for families and friends of residents to learn about addiction, treatment and recovery. Family and friends are often on the program’s phone (or even at the door) asking what they can do to help. Developing a Family Weekend for your program is a way to help focus that desire to help into a more useful mode.

The Family Weekend is already put together. We will work with you to fine tune the groups and curriculum to your program needs. The Family Weekend Package includes:

• Education Groups
• Process Groups
• Art Therapy Project
• Power Point Presentation
• Video Clips

The atmosphere of the Family Weekend is designed to be educational and supportive; not a confrontational or "hot seat" experience. The goal for the two days is for family members and residents to learn and grow from a series of focused, educational and small group experiences.

Additional Workshops

• CEU Trainings
• Stress Management
• Families In Recovery for consumers
• Families In Recovery Model for clinicians
• Parenting with Love and Limits
• Successful Single Parenting, Co-parenting
• Boundaries
• Relapse Prevention
• Safe People
• Family Weekends Workshops

Groups

The Boundaries Lab: Improving Ourselves and Our Relationships Through Developing Healthy Boundaries

The Boundaries Lab provides an interactive, small group designed to be a safe, supportive and growth environment for group members to learn about, discuss and practice boundaries in relationships. Whether it's at home, work, close friends, co-workers or the most significant people in our life, awareness of our boundaries can help us to live a more authentic life, communicate better and create an opportunity to experience closer, more satisfying relationships.

The Boundaries Lab is an ongoing group open to men and women. New members may be added each quarter depending upon available openings in the group. Call Paul for more information.

Boundaries With Kids: Helping children learn to take responsibility for their actions, attitudes and emotions

This small group is an eight week book and dvd study and discussion of Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend’s book about how boundaries work in child rearing. Small groups present a great opportunity to learn from each other’s experience and share in the support from other members hoping to grow in their parenting abilities.

Our children learn in their families how to do life. Learning about boundaries is part of that family education whether we realize it or not. The Boundaries With Kids group will focus on understanding the role that boundaries play for our children and how to communicate them.

Boundaries with Kids will begin in late September 2009. Contact Paul for schedule and fee information. Signups are available now.