Clients that are undergoing individual counselling could attend a group counselling session. In these sessions we make each other aware our defence mechanisms with the assistance of one or two facilitating counsellors.

Parents, partners and children that suffer from the addiction of others are advised to undergo some counselling. Individually or with the addict. To truly gain recovery from the disease the entire (family) mechanism needs to be looked at and healed. Addiction is a family disease which effects everybody in the family. The addict themselves suffer from the negative consequences of the addiction and the family suffers from the stress these consequences bring. Often the family enables the addict to continue to use or drink because they try to solve the problems for the addict, hence avoiding the negative consequences.

This maintains the addiction and does not give the addict the chance to reach the bottom they need to reach in order to start the process of recovery. This does not mean, for instance, to abandon your child, but to learn to let go, with love. This is a process in which you could be assisted.

During these conversations we pay attention to:

We look at the definition of addiction and the myth of willpower and the non-helpful ways in which a family tries to help the addict.

 
The twelve step recovery groups are the main focus within the recovery process.

For family members of a person that denies his or her addictions problems, Counselling Center Changes offers family intervention. The goal of this intervention is to convince the person of the necessity to accept help.

For younger people there are special clinics as well as special programs. This also pertains to people with an eating disorder.