Explore Your Options: Do Nothing and Nothing Changes!

Patrick J. Hart Psy.D.
Specializing with Non-Confrontational Family Intervention
Addiction represents a primary, progressive, pervasive and predictably lethal illness - It is likely clear to you by now:

“If you keep doing what you are doing –
you will keep getting what you are getting."
Do nothing – and nothing changes . . .
If you or your loved one is suffering from addiction related problems --  this situation is clearly getting progressively worse -- you may wish to schedule a formal phone consultation assessment to explore exactly what you can do to promote life-saving change.

Intervention methods must be carefully tailored to fit the demands of each family intervention case. Defense, shame and safety precautions must be carefully reviewed and organized if intervention is to be successful.

Various Intervention Approaches are Summarized Below:
No matter which intervention method you choose, as an independent intervention specialist in private practice, I will provide you with clear guidance and intervention recommendations as to how to resolve your problem with another's chemical dependency. Of course, all participants will follow their own sensibilities and act at their discretion. I offer you my informed clinical guidance, yet nothing is mandated to you. Ultimately, all of your actions must be carefully evaluated and chosen by you. Ultimately, intervention must be dedicated to uphold your own self-preservation. Our outcome is to mobilize action for the preservation of health. Intervention helps you take a stand for life-giving change!

Case Specific Intervention Planning:
Please Remember: No Secrecy nor Surprises are Necessary!

The “Invitational" Intervention Method: No Secrecy Involved!
Secrets and surprises run contrary to many intervention contexts. Frequently, it is absolutely unnecessary for families to enact changes that shock or surprise their loved one by traditional “hard-bottom-line” intervention methods. Dr. Hart will very carefully screen your case and mak intervention method and treatment recommendations that are “tailor-made” to assure the most helpful change strategy. Intervention should never, ever, involve coercion or clumsy ultimatums that have the potential to create more shame and humiliation than already exists! Many interventions have had devastating results because methods have been poorly chosen without astute clinical guidance.

Formal Professionally Guided “Surprise” Intervention:
For numerous reasons, the formal surprise intervention method is not always recommended. This intervention approach must be considered with extreme clinical discretion and is only recommended when other approaches must be ruled out.

The surprise (Johnson Institute) intervention method involves an intricately planned and strategic event, whereby the drug compromised individual is surprised with an unexpected visit by concerned loved ones while under the direct guidance and face-to-face supervision of the intervention specialist. This family intervention  strategy targets immediate admission to an appropriate and well-matched treatment center. This formal intervention strategy always initiates immediate constructive change and engages harm reduction or safety precautions that make perfect sense!

Informal Family Driven “Soft” Intervention by Significant Others:
This intervention approach involves well informed interpersonal contact by family members without the direct supervision and physical presence of the intervention specialist. Informal family intervention strategies may simply involve brief supportive counseling of concerned others for "clinical coaching" that advises and suggests actions that can be taken (what you can effectively say and do) to enhance another's motivation to get well. Many intervention “teams” benefit from scheduling a single “informational assessment consultation” with an intervention specialist to hear professional recommendations and learn about options for treatment, safety precautions, and actions that will promote constructive change!

Seattle Intervention Specialist: Independent Private Practice
National Services are Available for Complex and Delicate Family Interventions.

Explore the Broad Range of Intervention Methods by Private Phone Consult.
Dr. Patrick J. Hart ~ Seattle Intervention Specialist - National Services