Bridging Session - HALO version
Help jump-start your loved one's recovery
from alcohol, drugs and other excessive behaviors.
There are few things in life as painful as seeing the person you love self-destruct with alcohol or drugs and refuse to go into treatment or not benefit from treatment. You feel helpless and hopeless as the situation deteriorates. You don't want to kick your loved one out of the house, but you are sick and tired of their crazy behavior.
Do you have any other options? Yes! You don't have to wait for your loved one to "hit bottom" nor do you have to make threats that you really don't mean. You can break the stalemate by changing your behavior first. Dr. Kern's ground-breaking Bridging Session-HALO version. ("Helping a Loved One") will show you how to affect positive changes in your loved one. (Please note that this is not a therapy session; it is a one-hour information, planning and strategizing session.)
Set the stage for your loved one to change.
Dr. Kern, an experienced addictions psychologist based in Los Angeles, will show you why you don't need to have huge, dramatic confrontations with your loved one or give them painful ultimatums. Instead, you will learn how even one, small change in your behavior can cause ripples of positive changes in their behavior.This is an extraordinarily unique and profound approach to solving the complex problems of living with a person with destructive, excessive habits. It is based on a proven strategy of psychological changes that your loved one must go through to facilitate movement and growth and transform inertia into positive action.
Step back and see the bigger picture.
Dr. Kern will help you stop obsessing on the daily details of relationship problems and the painful history of who did what to whom. He will help you see the bigger family dynamic that has unknowingly fueled the fires of your loved one's addictions. Like a surgeon who removes disease with his scalpel, Dr. Kern will identify the precise action you need to take now to create a "shake-up" in the status-quo of your relationship and initiate the beginning of your loved one's "momentum of change."Stages of Change
Los Angeles-based addictions psychologist Dr. Kern has seen the HALO method work for many clients in his private practice who had been stuck in the rut of their loved one's addictions for years.
A proven strategy for initiating life changes.
Instead of waiting months or possible years (if ever) for your loved one to "wake-up," you can begin influencing their behavior in very positive ways immediately after your HALO session.In one private and confidential hour with Dr. Kern, in person or by phone, you will:
- understand how to initiate this necessary "momentum of change"
- design a personalized, step-by-step Action Plan that you and Dr. Kern create together
- gain the confidence and know-how to begin making changes in your own behavior, thereby setting the stage for your loved one to make life-long changes.
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A month and a half ago, I called you (Dr. Kern) for a phone appointment (Bridging Session-HALO session) about how I could cope with my boyfriend's pot addiction. I am happy to report that he quit smoking pot that week and (to my knowledge anyway) hasn't gotten high since.
He also surrendered a burden that had been obsessing all his thoughts, and he had been using pot to numb his discouragement rather than face it...
Elizabeth's full testimonial
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