Family Intervention Center of Virginia

To contact the Family Intervention Center of Virginia, call:
(804) 677-7728

UPCOMING EVENTS

Bill Maher will be a speaker/presenter at these upcoming Intervention
Training Conferences:

Watch for the 2011 series
of
"ASK THE EXPERT"
in
Richmond, Virginia
and
Washington, D.C. area.

This is a quarterly series of seminars in association with some of the leading addiction industry physicians and treatment facilities.

“If only I could get my loved one to treatment.”
This is a common thought of friends and family members dealing with the problem of addiction in a loved one. A professionally facilitated intervention may be the answer. Alcoholism, drug, and food addiction are progressive and often fatal. Fortunately, addiction is a disease that can be successfully treated—provided that the alcoholic or addict gets suitable help in time. The intervention initiates the addicted person’s process of “hitting bottom”. It works to break both the individual and the family members’ ties to the disease so that the journey to a healthy and productive life can begin for all involved.

A New Reality
There are several models of intervention that we facilitate. With one type—the Family Invitational Model—the chemically dependent person is openly invited to attend. Family members and significant others learn about and discuss the affects of addiction. The meeting is organized in a way that allows the addicted person to lower their defenses, principally because the material is not directed at them, but rather to the family as a whole.

More about Intervention

William J. Maher, CADC, ACI
Board Registered Interventionist II
Member of the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)
and
The Association of Intervention Specialists (AIS)

More about
Bill Maher, Interventionist