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Addiction Treatment
A Better Way
Dedicated to helping the addict or alcoholic and family
find recovery together.
We have compiled years of experience in working
With addiction sufferers and their families to provide
You with practical guidance and insights.
Please fill in the form below to download this invaluable guide
What’s inside?
You’ll find practical guidance and insights to get out of the seemingly endless cycle together, from professionals who’ve been there themselves.
01 – Making sense of it
02 – Negotiating a way forward
03 – Integrated treatment approach
04 – What happens in treatment
05 – Intro to the 12-Step Programme
06 – Avoiding relapse
07 – Importance of privacy
08 – From the patient’s point of view
09 – Covering the costs
What to Expect
Understanding
A deeper undestanding of what’s actually going on in the family and with the addiction sufferer.
A Way Forward
Practical steps on how to resolve the situation, whether it’s an immediate crises or an ongoing decline.
Insights
What can the family and the addiction sufferer expect from treatment.
What Clients Say
I learnt practical tools which I can apply in my everyday life. Once I understood the truth of the illness, I felt liberated and began to see my daughter in a totally different way, loving her for who she is but hating the disease. I have so much hope, not only for my daughter, but for myself and others that are in similar situations.
SUSANNA
My addiction controlled my thinking so much even though I knew I had a problem. I realized I needed the help, and I finally found it, I became ready to admit the one thing I’ve always been afraid to admit, the fact that I have failed to use the way that I’ve always wanted to. I didn’t really have fun like I fantasized.
NQABA
When I was on the brink of suicide something reminded me of The Cedars and how I saw the evidence that there is a solution. I just needed to reach out and ask for help. That same day, I called The Cedars and then I was on a flight. When I landed I was taken to the house on the hill where my journey truly began.
MONIQUE
Meet the Authors
Stellio Coutsides
Counsellor | Marketing
Stellio came into The Cedars in late 2015 after a long journey through addiction to various substances. He was determined to change, completed the program and started a new chapter when he joined the team as an on-site volunteer in 2016. Stellio is passionate about recovery and helping others find it.
Stellio is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counsellor. With his background in management and marketing, Stellio has also helped shape the treatment facility’s branding efforts, refining email support and improving new client liaison
Carmen Lombard
Family Liaision Manager and Addiction Counsellor
Carmen arrived at The Cedars in November 2009 feeling exhausted and out of all options on how to stay clean and was tired of ‘existing’ rather than living. Carmen completed The Cedars programme and found fulfilment and purpose in the 12 Step Programme. “I believe I started living at 36 and now have a genuine understanding of joy and happiness: something I have always been searching for”.
Carmen eventually returned to volunteer at The Cedars and worked her way from trainee to a registered institutional addiction counsellor. During her time as a counsellor, Carmen found a love and passion for assisting and educating the families of addicts and alcoholics. She has extensive experience in addiction counselling, family counselling, presenting workshops and facilitating interventions.
