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Healing Together: Engaging Families in Recovery

John Fleeker, LMFT
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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Explain how substance use disorders affect the entire family system and why family engagement is clinically essential.

  • Describe at least 2 contributors to addiction in families, such as genetics, epigenetics, developmental psychology, and social learning.

  • Identify common family roles and systemic dynamics that emerge in response to addiction.

  • Discuss how various family dynamics can perpetuate addictions within families.

  • Apply trauma-informed and culturally responsive strategies to reduce resistance and build rapport with families.

  • Demonstrate how to engage families in treatment and recovery and reduce resistance

  • Recall appropriate national and local resources to support families’ parallel recovery journeys.

Educational Goal

(1) To equip behavioral health professionals with traumatically informed, culturally responsive strategies to engage families in recognizing their own need for support and healing as part of the addiction recovery process.


(2) To inform professionals of the positive and negative impacts of addiction on the family system and how to build a family system to provide support to recovery.

Description

This training equips behavioral health professionals with practical, trauma-informed strategies to engage families in the addiction recovery process. While the focus in treatment often centers on the individual, families play a critical role in long-term outcomes and are frequently navigating their own grief, confusion, and trauma. This session explores how substance disorders affect family systems, outlines common relational dynamics that emerge, and provides tools for clinicians to build trust, reframe resistance, and encourage family participation in parallel healing. Participants will learn how to introduce support options without blame, teach healthy boundary-setting, and access culturally inclusive resources that empower families to take an active role in recovery.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

John Fleeker, LMFT
John Fleeker is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist and a Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor with 28 years of experience across a variety of settings, including residential treatment, outpatient care, correctional facilities, private practice, and community mental health.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Holland Pathways - Your Path To Recovery