Family Services

Mountainside’s Family Services can empower the entire support system or family unit to repair relationships, rebuild trust, enhance communication, and establish healthy boundaries. Our experts understand the complexities that addiction inflicts on family dynamics, and we’re here to provide the tools and nurturing environment needed to navigate these challenges.

Available Family Services include:

• Family Outpatient Services
• Family Recovery Coaching
• Other Family Resources, including Support Groups, Workshops, and more

Mountainside’s Family Wellness Outpatient Services program is designed to equip families with the knowledge and tools needed to overcome the impact of addiction and regain control of their lives. Our dedicated team of skilled clinicians stands by your side, providing the essential guidance and support to help your family navigate through the depression, trauma, and grief stemming from a loved one’s struggle with addiction. The loved ones of people struggling with addiction can also learn how to repair relationships, utilize healthy forms of communication, and practice self-care to better support the whole family’s recovery.

Program Overview

Our Family Wellness Outpatient Services program offers insights, tools, and strategies that help you understand the impact your loved one’s addiction has had on your life. Our expert clinicians provide unwavering support, creating a safe space where families can address the emotional turmoil caused by a loved one’s battle with addiction. This program is open to all; loved ones struggling with addiction do not have to be admitted to an addiction treatment program at Mountainside for you to benefit from Family Services at Mountainside.

Available Services

Our comprehensive approach fosters healing on multiple levels. Mountainside will stand beside you every step as the way to ensure your family’s needs are fully addressed. Here are some of the services at your disposal:

• Individual Therapy: One-on-one sessions with a family wellness clinician tailored to your unique needs.
• Group Therapy: A safe space to heal and connect with others who share similar experiences.
• Family Therapy: Rebuild, reconnect, and reestablish the bonds that matter most.

Family Recovery Group Therapy

Led by a licensed family clinician, this 10-week group therapy explores the most pivotal areas related to family recovery in a comfortable setting with like-minded individuals. Topics include:

• Healthy vs. Unhealthy Relationships
• Communication
• Self-Care
• Boundaries
• Family Roles
• Rebuilding Trust
• Identifying needs in a relationship
• Grieving a past relationship and relationship transitions
• Meaningful connection
• Wellness

Rotating Structured Family Wellness Curriculum

Mountainside offers a series of free virtual family wellness workshops that provide space for loved ones to learn about important aspects of addiction treatment, safely ask questions, and build a support network of their very own. Open to the community.

• Neurobiology of Addiction: Learn about addiction as a complex disease, including the anatomy and physiology of the brain and how addiction alters basic brain functions.
• Addiction as an Attachment Disorder: Discover how the biological need for attachment impacts the development of addiction and relationships within the family.
• Family Roles: Understand and reshape the roles within your family unit.
• Illness to Wellness: Examine how addiction creates dysfunctions within families and learn helpful communication styles that positively influence the transition to wellness.
• Wellness Into Action: Explore different ways to practice self-care and wellness, including mind-body oriented activities to foster stability and resilience.
• Healthy Relationships: Boundaries: Establish healthy limits that nurture growth.
• Healthy Relationships: Communication: Learn to communicate effectively and authentically.

*See the bottom of this page for downloadable resources on Family Outpatient Services and more!

Family Recovery Coaching

When your loved one suffers from addiction and requires caring support, taking the time to focus on yourself can seem impossible. To help you address any fear, stress, and anxiety caused by your loved one’s addiction, and to help you learn how to prioritize your own needs and happiness, Mountainside addiction treatment center offers family-focused recovery coaching. This program provides you with a nationally-certified Family Recovery Coach to serve as a partner and guide in a difficult time. All Mountainside Family Recovery Coaches have first-hand experience with the impact addiction can have on the family unit. Our caring professionals truly understand what you are going through and can provide you with unique perspectives, helpful support, and countless life-improving resources.

Program Overview

Mountainside’s Family Recovery Coaching program is available in-person at Mountainside treatment center locations or via telehealth. The program consists of four key components:

Comprehensive Wellness Plan

Shifting the focus back to you is vital to healing. Partnering with your recovery coach, you formulate a comprehensive wellness plan designed around your overall well-being and recovery goals. Together, you integrate self-care into your daily life and tackle important issues such as codependency, enabling behaviors, and boundaries. Throughout your treatment, your coach works closely with our expert clinical team to track your progress and make adjustments to the plan when necessary.

Connected Care Network

When you live in a constant state of emergency, it is easy to forget about your basic needs. Our Family Recovery Coaching program makes it easier for you to start taking care of your holistic health by connecting you with any additional service providers you may need, including clinical, medical, psychiatric, wellness, and legal services. All of our referrals are carefully vetted to ensure that you receive quality care and support in all critical areas of your life.

Weekly Meetings

Rebuilding your life takes time and commitment. Through in-depth face-to-face, phone, and video sessions, you take the goals established in your wellness plan and break them down into concrete action items. Setting weekly objectives and identifying the steps needed to accomplish them allows you to keep better track of your priorities and ensures that you continue to make progress.

Daily Check-Ins

Life is full of surprises – both positive and negative. By maintaining constant communication through text and calls, your coach provides you support and guidance to address in real-time any unexpected challenges that pop up. Always by your side, your coach is also there when you want to celebrate an accomplishment, no matter how big or small. Daily check-ins also help keep you accountable and focused on your wellness plan.

*See the bottom of this page for downloadable resources on Family Recovery Coaching and more!