CRAFT Counseling
How to help your loved one with an addiction who refuses to get treatment.
First session is FREE, use coupon code CCFREE
70% Success Rate
CRAFT trained family members are successful at getting their addicted loved ones into treatment 70% of the time — a higher success rate than AL-NON or interventions. This success is evidenced regardless of your ethnicity or race and no matter what connects you to your loved one. Success is not dependent upon your loved one’s type of addiction.
“There are no other options in our society”. Dr. Nicole Kosanke.
Dr. Nicole Kosanke, co-author of the best selling “Beyond Addiction”
Individual Attention
Motivational (non-confrontational style) solid clinical judgement, and a creative approach to problem solving. 50-minute weekly sessions that teach you new behaviors and strategies geared towards influencing your treatment refusing loved one to reduce their abuse and enter treatment.
You will work collaboratively with a clinician certified by Dr. Robert J. Meyers, the creator of CRAFT, to personalize the procedures so they suit your situation.
Over the last 10 years our counselors have spent 1,000 of hours working with 100s of family members all across the country. We look forward to learning how we can help.
Dr. Robert J. Meyers, the creator of CRAFT
First Session is FREE
Almost everyday CRAFT Connect receive desperate calls and emails from family members who are worried about their child, partner, spouse, parent or friend’s drinking or drug abuse. As their loved one’s addiction has grown worse, they don’t know what to do to get them into treatment.
If nothing else you have tried has worked, please test the CRAFT approach of compassion, love and empathy by taking our first counseling session for free. When you schedule your first appointment enter the CCFREE coupon code. Individual session thereafter are $100. Sliding scales are offered based on your needs and available slots.
12 Session Program
C01. Informing and Motivating You.
A significant part of this session is devoted to reassuring you that although you will be part of the solution to your loved ones substance use problems, it does not mean that you are responsible for them. The session also offers factual details about the CRAFT program and instills hope that your loved one will get better.
C02. Functional Analysis (“Road Map”) of Your Loved One’s Drinking and Using Behavior.
A functional analysis is your depiction of the context for your loved one’s substance use. This “road” map includes your loved one’s triggers for using substances, as well as both positive and negative consequences. This depiction allows you and your CRAFT therapist to start developing strategies for intervening.
C03. Improving Your Communication Skills
When helping you establish plans for new ways of interacting with your loved one preparatory skills training is needed. The most important of these skills is positive communication, as it plays a role in each of the other CRAFT procedures. Communication training entails practicing socially skilled options for handling important conversations with your loved one that then typically result in an increased willingness for them to listen.
C04. Rewarding Non-Using Behavior
Teaches you how to give rewards only when your loved one is not using substances, thereby increasing the frequency of the non-using behavior.
C05. Withdrawing Rewards for Using Behavior
Strategy often used in conjunction with the Rewards Non-Using Behavior session. Teaches you how to withdraw rewards consistently when your loved one is using substances, thereby decreasing the frequency of their using behavior.
C06. Allowing for Natural, Negative Consequences of Use
A structured plan of allow for natural, negative consequences of use assists you in refraining from engaging in certain behavior with your inebriated/high loved one that inadvertently may be supporting continued substance use
C07. Problem Solving
Learn a structured approach for breaking down problems into manageable pieces and generating specific plans (and backup plans) for resolving the.
C08. Helping you Enrich Your Own Life
Exercises are used to explore your happiness in various areas of your life and to develop successful strategies to work towards new goals.
C09. Inviting Your Loved One to Enter Treatment
Introduced after considerable ground work has been laid, revolves around preparing and practicing the invitation for your loved one to attend treatment (which includes motivational “hooks”) and lining up appropriate treatment.
C10., C11. and C12.
Content based on your needs identified during C01. through C09. counseling sessions.
Adapted from Jane Ellen Smith and Robert J. Meyers, “The CRAFT Treatment Manuel for Substance Use Problems”, Guilford Press, New York City, 2023.