ParallelRecovery™
Family Recovery Services
Lisa Smith
Family Recovery Coach
Family Consultant | Interventionist | Speaker | B.M., M.Ed | Cert. CCAR, CRAFT, ITC, MI, IFS, Arise| TEDx Speaker
ParallelRecovery™ - Supporting the Journey of Family Healing
Our Mission
We meet you where you are and walk with you on your journey, guiding you on the path of ParallelRecovery™ .
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Change doesn't happen overnight and we understand first hand how isolating and frightening loving someone with a substance use disorder can feel.
We support you so that you can remember who you were before this all started, see who you have become in your relationship and identify who you want to be moving forward. ParallelRecovery™ is a process of healing and growth that can help you love yourself and your person better moving forward.
Our Services
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Family Support Group
The Begin Again Family Support group is a monthly membership support group that meets once per week online. It is designed for affected family members and focuses on creating a community of others navigating their loved ones’ challenges with Substance Use Disorder. This is a place to find common humanity and community with other families and it follows a guided topic each week.
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Intervention Services
There are times when an intervention is needed to help someone in extreme danger due to their substance use. In these moments, we utilize a family focused, invitational approach to the intervention process. Our interventions ask the entire family to play an integral role in the invitation to change and support and guide the family before, during and after the intervention to be able to model the process of healing for your person.
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Private Family Intensives
This process is designed for families whose busy schedules do not allow for longer term weekly support, or for those who would like to fast forward their recovery process in the comfort of their own home. We come to you with our ParallelRecovery™ program and create a weekend of change and family support.
A Little About Me...
"​... In a very rare moment of clarity and authentic vulnerability, I realized that I was the person with the power to begin the change process for our entire family. I could be the small pebble that could create the ripple in the water needed to provide connection and hope for myself and others. I became determined to regain control over my own life, rebuild the family relationships in jeopardy and love my son greatly - separate from his behavior and as the person who had lost himself in the disease of addiction.
In that moment I discovered that working on creating healthy boundaries, communicating with compassion and continuing to love my son where he was at - immersed in a disease that he could not control-was the only way out - for both of us. I could not help my son if I did not first save myself and become the person who I was proud to show up as."
Testimonials
“Families rave about all they learn from you, and so many express such gratitude.”
-Therapist at a
Residential Treatment Center
" You helped save our relationship with our person which has helped immensely in our person’s recovery."
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-Private Client-
“As I have repeatedly told the treatment center you referred our daughter to saved her life, and you helped save ours!”
-Private Client-
