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Addiction – Alcohol Specialists

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Why Intervene?

You’re Worried — And You’re Not Alone

Maybe it’s your partner. Your child. A client. A colleague. Someone you care about is caught in something they can’t see clearly — and you’re feeling helpless watching it unfold. Addiction, whether to alcohol, drugs, or behaviours, distorts reality and damages trust. But there is a path forward. And it starts with you.

“95% of interventions succeed in getting a person into treatment.” — National Council on Alcoholism

What Is an Intervention?

An intervention is a structured, respectful conversation — designed to gently interrupt the cycle of denial and avoidance, and to invite real change. It’s not a confrontation. It’s an act of love, of duty, and of care.

Intervention Helps When…

  • The person you care about doesn’t recognise there’s a problem
  • They’ve promised to change — but the behaviour continues
  • You’ve tried talking — but nothing gets through
  • Their actions are harming themselves and others
  • The whole family or workplace feels trapped in chaos

Why Act Now?

Waiting for someone to hit “rock bottom” is risky — and often dangerous. Families and professionals can create a powerful shift before things worsen. Inaction often leads to greater damage: emotionally, physically, and even legally.

“If we wait, the crisis chooses us. If we act, we create a new possibility.”

What Makes Our Interventions Different?

  • Compassionate Process: Built on respect and empathy
  • Tailored Support: Adapted for families, professionals, and corporate settings
  • Expert Facilitation: Guided by trained specialists in addiction and behaviour change
  • Lasting Impact: Focused on sustainable recovery and relationship repair

You Have a Role — And a Choice

If you’re reading this, it means you’re already considering how to help. Intervention is about reclaiming choice, not forcing someone to change. It’s about showing up with clarity, unity, and love — to say, “We see what’s happening, and we won’t abandon you. But we can’t stay silent either.”

If you’re ready to take the next step, we’re here to guide you. Book a free consultation today.

Why Intervene?

95% of Interventions result in successful admission to an appropriate treatment program within 3 weeks

Active addiction, in any form, drugs, alcohol, gambling, food, etc.—all has one thing in common. It is hell for everyone involved.

Intervention changes everything. Enabling moves to helping. Addiction moves to recovery.

Intervention is about not waiting for rock bottom to break through, as this can take weeks, months, and years of progressing suffering. Intervention sidesteps that and fast tracks the whole family straight to the point where recovery and treatment is a choice for right now.

Interventions are really quite simple.

Your interventionist’s hand hold you through the whole process. With skill and experience you will come to a point where you are all able to simply say, “We love you but not the addiction, please take this offer of help today”.

Why have you not done this before?

Fear. Most families have moved into enabling addiction, as enabling appears to fix short term fears but, in the long term, does nothing to move a loved one into recovery. Intervention supports you all in your fears as you move together towards active recovery

Why Intervene?

So again, that question. Why would you do an intervention?. The simple reason is that this particular person you are considering is unable to initiate change based on negative consequences of their use of alcohol or drugs. They are clearly able to make rational decisions in all areas of their lives and make promises and commitments, but when it comes to the use of alcohol or drugs, they will always return to using at some point.  It may well be so frustrating for you to witness this bizarre and troubling inconsistency coming from a person that you care about, that you find yourself attempting  to make alibis and rationalisations to explain their behaviour from your own framework and reference point. This is normal, and results in the phenomenon of enabling. When a group of you get together to discuss the reality of what you are witnessing, it is clear that some powers and forces are affecting a person’s life in such a way that normal argument or intellectual persuasion appears to be ineffective. It is also clear that the individual is starting to create a wall of denial to the extent of their problem. It is also evident that you are witnessing a progression that no one really believes is going to come to a happy conclusion. There can only be one effective choice. This is to change the course of a person’s future by intervening in their addiction with effective treatment. Your interventionist is able to empower you as a group of concerned others to assist a person to take the treatment now,  thus preventing the worsening Rock Bottom experiences yet to happen.

Early intervention in a predictable condition ensures that a person will probably not have to lose their home, family, or freedom.  Interventions remove enabling and denial alongside early treatment, which in turn protects the opportunity for a fulfilling and happy life.