Busy busy month at  Interventions on Demand.

I am always impressed when families know it’s time to have the conversation no matter what fears that can stand in the way . One of the great gifts of introducing recovery to families is their ability to face fears and do it anyway because they know if they don’t , the feelings are there anyway not knowing what each day addiction brings.

I was talking to mom who decided it was time to get help and she was feeling hopeless and not knowing at her age that she could change , I was able to share my story with her that I got clean and sober at the age of 36 and also felt the same way but what I shared with her is that life has a whole lot more  for us to learn and how cool is it that the things that we love can benefit from our decision.  She lit up with hope that recovery is possible .

I am committed today to always share my own personal experience whether it’s intervening on a 17-year-old boy who doesn’t think it’s a big deal to use drugs to the elder adult who feels like why change now.

We have a great team and Interventions on Demand  and pride ourselves doing the best we can.

I do believe this year there’s more awareness and knowledge and recovery is possible, you just have to want it.

Linda Blog

 

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Linda is also a Board Registered Interventionist who has conducted many successful Interventions. She is a long standing member of the Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation, an Internationally Certified Alcohol and Drug Counsellor through ICRC and Certified Intervention Profession CIP through the Pennsylvania Certification Board. Linda got her start working in the social services industry for over two decades and continued onto being one of the top Executive Management Leaders in the Addictions Health Care Industry in Canada also involved in many Provincial and National Strategies in Health Initiatives including the Council on Workplace Health and Wellness in which the building a Psychological Safe Workplace “practical approaches to Success” were implemented and the creation of the New National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the workplace. In her own words: Addiction is a multi faceted illness – including physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual aspects, and that all of these must be addressed. Linda's passion and drive is to help individuals and families heal from addiction. she approaches every client with the understanding that each person differs from the others. People’s behaviours are shaped by their experiences, and each person is unique in this regard. Treatment is always individualized, as there is no such thing as one size fits all. Addicts and families are people in pain, and are doing whatever they can to make the hurt go away. In my interventions, I focus on connecting with their pain so that they are able to feel “heard” and understood. Only once that happens can the intervention be effective. Linda's a Motivational Interviewing Instructor and her belief that change is possible is an important factor to succeeding in helping people consider the change argument. In conducting interventions; she focus's her efforts on helping the clients stay motivated, and supporting clients' sense of self-efficacy. Linda’s commitment to excellence in Intervention best practice guides the service provision.

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