Addiction affects the whole family. Recovery should too.

Addiction is a family disease — the enabling, confrontation, and avoidance patterns built up over years around a loved one’s substance use sustain the addiction. Family therapy addiction programmes consistently produce better long-term sobriety outcomes than patient-only treatment. At SimranShri, family therapy is a clinical requirement, not optional.

No. Family counselling rehab sessions at SimranShri are structured around whoever can realistically participate — primary caregivers, spouses, adult children, and close siblings. Forcing reluctant members to attend is counterproductive. We work with the family members who show up.

Yes. For families outside Delhi NCR — or when work and logistics make in-person attendance impossible — family therapy sessions can be delivered remotely via secure video. Recorded sessions allow patient and psychologist to review important moments afterward.

No. Family counselling at SimranShri runs weekly during the patient’s inpatient stay and continues monthly through the 12-month aftercare window. Post-discharge family sessions are critical — this is when relapse risk peaks and family dynamics most need support.

We offer CRAFT-based family work (Community Reinforcement and Family Training) specifically for families where the patient refuses addiction treatment. CRAFT coaches family members on how to encourage treatment-seeking behaviour without confrontation — and has strong evidence for success.

Sessions are led by a qualified psychologist and typically involve structured conversations between patient and family members — addressing communication patterns, enabling identification, boundary-setting, and post-discharge planning. Early sessions may be patient-only or family-only; joint sessions come later.

Individual counselling treats the patient’s psychology; family therapy addiction treatment treats the relationships surrounding the addiction. Both run in parallel. Many patients attend individual CBT sessions and family therapy sessions within the same week — different psychologists, different clinical focus.

Family therapy is confidential between the family and the psychologist — not shared with other patients or with anyone outside the clinical team. Early sessions are typically individual; families choose what to bring into joint sessions and at what pace.

Young children are generally not brought into joint therapy sessions, but their experience of a parent’s addiction is a core focus of family work. We help the affected parent rebuild a clear, honest, age-appropriate communication pattern with their children — this is often the most healing part of recovery.

Yes. Family therapy is part of our core addiction treatment programme at SimranShri — not a separate service. Inpatient family sessions and 12-month post-discharge family follow-up are included in the residential programme.