THE IN HOUSE GROUP… CHANGING LIFE WHERE LIFE HAPPENS
When you are ready to take action related to someone you love’s misuse of alcohol, drugs or another unhealthy condition that is affecting their life, and yours… we can help and we will come to you. Together we collaborate and develop a partnership, a team, to address the unhealthy condition where you are, where you live and where you travel.
We believe that addressing the condition everywhere it presents itself is one of the essential ingredients to long term success for your loved one and your family.
WHO WE ARE
The In-Home Group is an organization of three individuals and specialty staff who have joined together in the shared believe that individuals and their significant others affected by the misuse of alcohol, other drugs or some other unhealthy behavior are able to create the lives they want. We believe that if you are one of these individuals, you are keenly aware of the desires, reasons and needs that define better health and life satisfaction for you.
We believe that if you have a desire to change, you also have the ability to summon and maintain the motivation necessary to make the changes that are important to you.
The In-Home Group is designed to bring our knowledge and skills to you, where ever you may be in the world, so we may work together and develop an individual menu of proven approaches directed at the changes you identify. This collaborative approach provides you the opportunity to guide the development of your own lifestyle change goals and work on them in your own time, pace and manner in the community where you live and no matter where you may travel.
We know that one size will not fit all people; rather, each person will best benefit from an approach tailored to their unique community, situation and lifestyle. You will bring your life, your dreams and aspirations and the ingredients from your previous successes related to change. We will bring to you our experience, knowledge and skills of what works for people who have and who want to have better health and life satisfaction through changing their relationship with alcohol and/or another drug. We, our staff and specifically selected local treatment specialists, and you will work together and, together, will gather the resources for your success.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
There are many different approaches people choose to change their relationship and investment in unhealthy behaviors. Many of the approaches that are currently being used support the idea of taking you out of your home and community. You are shipped away from those that have concern and love for you and “placed” into an insulated environment; everyone having been told that “going off to rehab” and adopting a specific way of life is the only way to be successful. This is simply not true. There are many successful paths to changing one’s relationship with alcohol, other drugs or another unhealthy behavior.
The scientific research on outcomes from various treatment experiences is virtually identical. In other words, for a general population of people wanting to change their relationship with alcohol or some other drug, it really doesn’t matter what you pick. What matters is
- You having a voice in what is chosen to address the condition(s) you are experiencing
- That it matches your life and lifestyle
- That the approaches used are “evidenced based and research derived”
- You like who is providing you with the help and support you want
- Difficulties are seen as opportunities to enhance and improve on what you are doing that is already working rather than as “failures”
- The condition is worked on in present and future terms, not the past and
- You Stick With It.
To summarize: What does matter, if you want some assistance with change, is that it match the degree of difficulty you are having with making the change you want, that it has been demonstrated to work and is actually applied, that less and more intensive types of approaches have been discussed or tried, that you are an active participant in matching your desires, reasons, needs for changing and your lifestyle with the type of approach you will be taking, that you “like” and find you are very comfortable with those guiding you, and that you stick with your plan changing it only in collaboration with those you have chosen to guide you toward success. This is what the research shows, what our experience has demonstrated, what we believe and what we have incorporated into our work with people wanting to make a change.
INTERVENTION
You, like many other family members of an individual in the grips of alcohol or some other drug have seen on TV, read about, had someone tell you about and, perhaps, thought about an “Intervention”.
The In-House Group IS your intervention. When you know you have just “had enough” and the person you are distraught about appears in imminent danger from their substance mis-use we will meet with you first and separately. Together we will determine if an “intervention” similar to those you have seen, read, been told or thought about is the most appropriate next step.
YOU MAY CONTACT ROBERT HANSELMAN TO ASK FURTHER QUESTIONS AND TO SET UP AN PHONE CONVERSATION.
