HALO Coaching (Helping a Loved One)

Dr. Kern's ground-breaking approach helps change
your loved one's behavior with alcohol and drugs
by changing your behavior first!

Pre-requisite: Bridging Session-HALO version.

There are few things in life as painful as seeing the person you love self-destruct with alcohol or drugs and refuse or not benefit from treatment time after time. You feel helpless and hopeless as the situation deteriorates. You don't want to kick your loved one out in the street, but you are sick and tired of their crazy behavior and its impact on your life and family. One, small change in your behavior can cause positive changes in your loved one.

YOU are the client, not your loved one.

In private, confidential sessions, by phone or in-person, Dr. Kern, a Los Angeles-based addictions psychologist, will show you why you don't need to have 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. HALO Coaching sessions are designed to provide you with ongoing support as you learn to deal with and affect your loved one's excessive behaviors in new and positive ways.

Set the stage for your loved one to change.

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. Stages of Change

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 and what trouble they might cause next. 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 actions you need to "shake-up" the status-quo of your relationship and initiate your loved one's "momentum of change."

Dr. Kern is a pioneer in this innovative HALO approach where the focus is on YOU. Your loved one doesn't take part in the coaching sessions and, if you prefer, you don't even have to tell them you are doing this. You can plan regular HALO sessions with Dr. Kern, or simply schedule a session when the need arises. It's up to you. There is no contract to sign or minimum number of sessions to attend.

Together, you and Dr. Kern will collaborate on a personalized "Action Plan" that will help you react to your loved one in more positive and productive ways, no matter how bad a day you are having.

Dr. Kern has seen the HALO method work for clients who have tried everything else to get their loved one out of their destructive rut. Instead of waiting months or possibly years (if ever) for your loved one to "wake-up," you can begin changing your behavior immediately and influencing your loved one in very positive ways.

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Next Step:

Is HALO Coaching the right choice for you? Find out when you schedule a private and confidential Bridging Session with Dr. Kern. This special, strategic session is a pre-requisite to beginning HALO Coaching.

Read more about Bridging Session-HALO Version



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