954-691-3174
SearchFamily Support Program
Lifeskills South Florida
1431 SW 9th Ave | Deerfield Beach, FL 33441
Navigating a loved one’s mental health or substance use challenges can be overwhelming. This group offers expert guidance, education, and a supportive community to help families foster healing and lasting recovery.
Program Highlights
We view the family as an interconnected system where each member influences the others. When mental illness or addiction is present, it can disrupt family dynamics, making it challenging to break harmful patterns — even after recovery begins. That’s where our family support program plays a critical role.
Our program guides families through the treatment process from admission, helping them address past pain and establish healthier dynamics. We work closely with families through weekly sessions, virtual groups, a weekend program, and family restructuring to foster healing and growth.
Key interventions include:
- Family assessment and genogram
- Identifying triangles and anxiety
- Communication skills training
- Therapeutic communication guidelines
Our Family Support Program
Through our family support program, we guide family members in the treatment process, provide them with support, training, empowerment, and education, and ultimately lead them to Recovery. Upon each client’s admission, therapists begin working with their family and provide regularly scheduled sessions to help them work through past pain, resentments, and new dynamics and challenges.
We use interventions and concepts to educate families, including a comprehensive family assessment, the completion of a family diagram (also known as a “Genogram”), assistance in recognizing triangles and anxiety within their system, effective communication skills training, and, when necessary, the implementation of therapeutic communication guidelines.
Family Program Components
- Weekly family support program sessions: The initial session is held with only the family to help them process feelings, develop healthy boundaries, and provide education. After the first session, the therapist will work the client into these sessions as appropriate.
- Weekly virtual family support group: Consisting of psychoeducation and open discussion, various members of our clinical and administrative teams attend as guest speakers on topics specific to their area of specialty or interest.
- Family weekend program: This program includes family processing exercises and a full day of workshops on topics such as dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), trauma therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and family dynamics, as well as a presentation by the Lifeskills Medical Director on mental illness and addiction.
- Family restructuring: These in-the-moment interventions are provided to help family members and clients overcome barriers. Families attend group sessions, meet with the treatment team, and participate in intensive family therapy sessions.
Learn More
If you have questions about our Family Support Program, give us a call at 954.691.3174 or complete our contact form.