Expert Family Counseling for Substance Abuse and Addiction
Quality & Affordable Family Therapy in Waukesha and Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Iris Health Clinic (IHC) is a leading provider of Family Therapy in Wisconsin. Located in Waukesha and Milwaukee, our affordable family therapy sessions offer comprehensive, evidence-based treatment and aim to provide healing for families struggling together with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. The overall goal of family therapy is to provide a safe space for families to come together to work through their conflicts and improve their communication skills and relationships with a licensed professional.
At IHC, we are passionate about providing both quality and affordable addiction and mental treatment for individuals and families in Wisconsin. Every day we work hard to prove that we are 100% dedicated to improving the health and well-being of those in our care through our evidence-based medical and therapeutic approaches. Our compassionate and empathetic therapists are trained to support individuals, couples, and families who are seeking support for substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders, emotional and mental health issues, eating disorders, PTSD, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and more.
We Believe the Family Unit is Critical to Recovery
At IHC, we believe the term ‘family’ consists of anyone we deem as family. Here, individuals do not have to be blood-related to be considered family. A family member is a person who has played a supportive, long-term role in a person’s life. Through our family therapy sessions, families can begin to heal by gaining new insights into themselves and their loved ones. We believe that including family in the recovery process is too often overlooked. Our goal is to address the entire modern family unit so all parties can gain a clearer idea of who they are, the roles they play, and how addiction and co-occurring mental disorders impact the family unit as a whole. This is how true healing begins.
Family Therapy and Addiction and Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders
Family therapy is commonly used in treating substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. Evidence shows that family therapy supports participants to challenge their belief systems and values, learn to communicate better, improve destructive patterns of behavior, create and hold healthy boundaries, and more.
What are the Benefits of Family Therapy?
IHC’s family therapy program offers many benefits for participants. For example, families:
- Learn skills to deepen their family connections and get through stressful times as a team
- Improve troubled relationships with spouses, children, parents or other loved ones
- Address specific issues such as marital or financial problems
- Settle conflicts between parents and children
- Discover the deeply rooted impact of substance use or a mental illness on the unit
- Improve family coping skills relative to substance use and mental health disorders
- Increase understanding amongst loved ones to bring everyone closer together
- Examine and improve the family dynamics
- Enhance their ability to solve problems and express thoughts and emotions in a productive manner
- Explore family roles, rules and behavior patterns to identify issues that contribute to conflict — and ways to work through these issues
- Learn new and improved ways to interact with and relate to one another
- Set individual and family goals and work on ways to achieve them.
Who Can Benefit from Family Therapy?
Family therapy sessions have proven to be an effective form of treatment for families dealing with a variety of stressful situations and emotional issues, including:
- Substance Use Disorders
- Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Personality Disorders
- Eating Disorders
- Schizoaffective
- Extreme Emotions, Like Sadness or Anger
- Recent Trauma, Such as Death of a Loved One or Divorce
- Substance Abuse
- Problems at Work
- Loss of Enjoyment of Activities
- Strained Family and/or Personal Relationships
- Concern from Friends or Family
Iris Health Clinic’s Family treatment services include:
- Job Assistance and Support
- Motivational Interviewing
- Mindfulness-Based Therapy
- Outpatient Treatment
- Peer Recovery Support Services
- Psychodrama
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Residential Treatment
Confidentiality
We understand that seeking treatment is not easy and the last thing a person needs is to fear is that they will be exposed by treatment staff for doing so. Fortunately, the strict rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) are designed to protect patient confidentiality. We respect these rules and we follow them. Additionally, many of our leadership are in recovery and some of our family members, so we know first hand the need to seek treatment for ourselves and our loved ones in private.
Iris Health Clinic is Covered by Medicaid and Most Insurances
Iris Health Clinic is covered by most insurances, including Medicaid, United Health Care, UMR, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Anthem, Aetna, Quartz, Forest County Potawatomi, WEA Trust, Cigna, Humana, Exceedent, WPS, and Sanford.
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