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Western Counselling considers working with and supporting families intrinsic in its role as a treatment provider.
Ensuring they are well supported through their anxieties of living with addiction and the treatment process, educated as to how they can help themselves and their addict/alcoholic, enables the individual to concentrate on their personal journey, safe in the knowledge that their families are being cared for also.
Work is undertaken on an individual basis with interaction dependent on the needs and personal situation of the family and addict. Family conferences can be arranged as necessary and are available on request or at the guidance of the focal counsellor.
Please click on 'Family Programme' or 'Visits' below for more information.
Our next Family Programme will be on Saturday and Sunday 14-15 November.
This programme is not residential however Western Counselling can assist with finding appropriate B&B and hotel accommodation locally.
Arrival and refreshments is 12.30pm with the programme commencing at 1pm running throughout the afternoon until 5pm. Commencing again at 9.45am Sunday morning with all attendees gathering to commence group work at 10am. Providing a programme of advice, education and support the course will finish at 1pm.
Visits with clients in treatment currently can be arranged with their counsellor after the Family Programme has finished for the day at 1pm Sunday.
Future Family Programme dates
- Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th November 2009
- Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th May 2010
- Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th November 2010
Maintaining contact and rebuilding relationships with their partners, spouses and family members is very important throughout the treatment process and visits from their loved ones can enable the client to demonstrate the changes they are making and make amends for previous behaviours and attitudes.
Visits are arranged through the focal counsellor and are usually permitted after Week 4-5, enabling all parties to have had some time apart to reflect. These Visits are usually arranged for weekdays, but weekends can be arranged as work/school commitments demand. Anyone taking illicit substances or thought to be under the influence of substances will not be permitted to enter our premises or speak with our service users. This is essential to maintain a safe environment for everyone.
We request that visitors arrive between 11-12noon and attend the Day Centre – alternative arrangements may be made at weekends. The counsellor will arrange a meeting and inform of all expectations and limitations of the visit, for example time of return, no go areas, permitted behaviours and actions.
There will be opportunity to discuss fears and aspirations for the visit before being able to leave the building and spend the next few hours together in the town of Weston super Mare, walking on the beach, having lunch or shopping, enjoying “family time” together.