Realizing that a loved one has a substance use disorder (SUD) can be shocking and disheartening. To know that a person you love is in constant pain and suffering can be nearly unbearable. Ultimately, you may feel at a loss about how to help your loved one.

Although this may be a scary time for you and your loved one, take comfort in the fact that you have options. For example, staging an intervention can be a very healthy and effective way to ensure that your loved one gets the help they deserve.

Steps of an Intervention

At Next Level Recovery Associates, we stage thorough and effective interventions for those who desire and need them. For you to help your loved one, it is important to learn more about our interventions so that your loved one receives proper and effective care during this time.

An intervention can be described as an emotional time for families to come together and express their concerns for a struggling loved one to get them to take action toward healing. We believe that interventions, through effective, thoughtful communication, have the ability to transform lives and promote healing for everyone involved.

An intervention is not just about berating a loved one into getting sober. It is also not about everyone pouring out their emotions without control. Instead, it involves careful crafting to be effective for your loved one. Below are four steps of an intervention:

Step 1: Seek Help

To give your loved one the best chance at getting help, you should seek out professional assistance right away. Make sure to ask each professional you speak to about their methods of intervening. When asking such questions, keep your loved one in mind. Privately ask yourself:

• What does my loved one need?

• What would be most effective for them?

• Could this person work well with my loved one?

• Is this person able to give my loved one what they need?

The answers to all of these questions should be “Yes.” When it comes to your loved one’s recovery, do not settle for less.

Step 2: Work With the Interventionist to Form a Plan

Continue to meet with the interventionist to get to know one another. Doing so can help you all feel more at ease with this daunting process. When meeting, you can help the interventionist learn more about your loved one so they can feel more comfortable as well. Together, you all can figure out where to meet, what to say, and what topics to cover during the intervention.

Step 3: Intervention

During the intervention, you will do and say what you have practiced together. This thoughtfully crafted plan will cater specifically to your situation. The interventionist will use a wide variety of modalities to ensure that you feel comfortable and confident in the plan. The interventionist will be there the whole time to ensure that everything goes as planned and that everyone feels safe and comfortable throughout the intervention. 

The interventionist will also focus on motivating your loved one rather than condemning them for their behaviors. Interventions do not have to be a scary, negative experience. In fact, it should not be this way because if it is, your loved one may not want to seek help. In building up your loved one, we work to inspire change rather than force it onto them. 

Step 4: Follow-Up or Future Planning

You may contact your interventionist to follow up with any other necessary plans moving forward. This includes planning for future treatment plans for your loved one, or even meeting with the interventionist again to discuss more options if the intervention did not motivate your loved one to seek help. No matter what the circumstances are, we are here to give you the individualized tools you need to help your loved one.

What Makes Our Interventions Worth It?

So many treatment facilities claim that their interventions are the most effective. With constantly being berated with such promises, it may be hard to decipher which facility offers what you need for your loved one.

At Next Level Recovery Associates, we provide a wide variety of options when crafting a plan for interventions. For example, we provide a wide variety of services for all kinds of situations. Some of these services include:

• Partner interventions

• Recovery coaching

• Case management

• Family therapy

• Individual therapy

• Group therapy

We want to ensure that your needs are met when staging an intervention. When meeting with our trained professionals, we make your needs our top priority and stage the intervention in a highly personalized, individual way. Reach out to us today to begin helping your loved one find the peace they deserve.

When realizing that your loved one has a substance use disorder, it may be difficult to know what to do to help them move forward. The first step is to find professional assistance that caters to your needs and the needs of your loved one. The next step is to form a plan in which the interventionist satisfies everyone's needs and desires. The next step is the intervention itself, which will be conducted in a way that motivates your loved one rather than condemns them. The final step includes any follow-up that may be necessary. Our interventionists at Next Level Recovery Associates are here to help conduct a personalized intervention for you and your loved one that takes your needs into consideration. Let us help remind your loved one of how great they are and why they deserve sobriety. Reach out today at consult@nextlevelra.com for more information.