​Family Support for Addiction & Recovery
When someone struggles with addiction or substance use, the entire family can be affected. Parents, spouses, partners, siblings, adult children, and other loved ones are often left navigating fear, uncertainty, changing relationships, and difficult decisions while trying to figure out how to help.
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HM Behavioral Health offers specialized Family Recovery Services for families affected by addiction and recovery. Services provide education, guidance, and therapeutic support to help family members better understand addiction, establish healthier boundaries, improve communication, navigate recovery and relapse concerns, and care for themselves throughout the process.
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Your loved one does not need to be in treatment, participating in therapy, or ready for recovery for you to receive support.
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Family Recovery Services are available through our Buzzards Bay office for families across Cape Cod, Plymouth County, and Southeastern Massachusetts, with virtual options available throughout Massachusetts.​
Family Recovery Services at HM Behavioral Health
Families are often expected to navigate addiction, treatment, relapse, boundaries, and recovery with very little guidance of their own. It can be difficult to know when to help, when to step back, what a healthy boundary looks like, or how to respond when the same situations continue happening.
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Family Recovery Services were created to help fill that gap. Some families need education and practical tools. Others need help navigating one specific situation or ongoing therapeutic support as relationships begin to change.
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Depending on what your family needs right now, support is available through the Family Recovery Roadmap™, individual Family Recovery Consultations, or Family Therapy.
The Family Recovery Roadmap™
The Family Recovery Roadmap™ is an eight-week clinician-led therapeutic group for parents, spouses, partners, siblings, grandparents, adult children, and other loved ones affected by addiction or substance use.
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The group helps participants better understand addiction and recovery while addressing the emotional and relational impact substance use can have on family members. Sessions focus on building practical skills, healthier coping strategies, and more effective ways of navigating relationships and recovery-related stress.
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Topics include:
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Understanding addiction and recovery
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Family roles and patterns
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Healthy boundaries
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Supporting recovery without enabling
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Effective communication
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Rebuilding trust
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Navigating relapse and recovery setbacks
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Managing stress, fear, guilt, and uncertainty
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Caring for yourself while loving someone affected by addiction
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Sessions combine psychoeducation, guided discussion, therapeutic reflection, coping strategies, and practical tools that can be applied to everyday life.
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8-Week Group | In-Person & Virtual Cohorts
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Insurance is accepted depending on plan, clinical eligibility, and coverage for group psychotherapy.
Participants interested in using insurance will complete an intake to determine whether the group is clinically appropriate and to identify individualized treatment needs and goals.
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Coverage, deductibles, copays, and other out-of-pocket costs vary by insurance plan.
Self-pay options are also available.
Family Recovery Consultations
Sometimes your family doesn’t need ongoing therapy. You need help figuring out what to do next.
A Family Recovery Consultation is a focused, individualized session designed to help families understand what is happening, identify what is within their control, and develop practical next steps.
Consultations can help families navigate:
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How to approach a loved one about getting help
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Treatment options and next steps
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Relapse or return to substance use
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Boundaries and enabling concerns
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Repeated family crises
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Difficult conversations
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Returning home after treatment
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Early recovery and changing family dynamics
Consultations are focused on the needs of the family member seeking support. Your loved one does not need to participate, and they do not need to be actively seeking treatment or recovery for you to schedule a consultation.
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90-Minute Consultation | $175
Private pay only. Insurance is not billed
Family Therapy for Addiction & Recovery
Addiction can affect trust, communication, boundaries, family roles, and relationships long after a crisis has passed. Recovery can also bring changes of its own as family members adjust to new expectations, rebuild trust, and learn different ways of relating to one another.
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Family therapy provides ongoing support for families who want to work through these changes together. Sessions may focus on improving communication, rebuilding trust, addressing unhealthy family patterns, strengthening boundaries, processing difficult experiences, navigating expectations in recovery, and creating healthier relationships moving forward.
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Family therapy is individualized based on the needs and goals of each family.
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Family Therapy | $175 per session
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Private pay only. Insurance is not billed.
Not Sure Where to Start?
You do not need to know which service is right for your family before reaching out.
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Some families are looking for education and practical skills. Others need guidance around one immediate situation, while some are looking for ongoing therapy to work through communication, trust, boundaries, and changing relationships.
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We can help determine whether your needs are best suited for the Family Recovery Roadmap™, a focused Family Recovery Consultation, or ongoing Family Therapy.
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Insurance may be accepted for the Family Recovery Roadmap™ when clinically appropriate and covered by your plan. Family Recovery Consultations and Family Therapy are currently private pay.
