SFR Counselor Training Details

An excerpt from the forward to It Takes a Family:

“Debra Jay unlocks the secrets of this revolutionary approach [the New Paradigm] to addiction. She adds a significant new dimension by focusing on the role of the family both in creating this system of care management and in making it work, long term. The author highlights the essential element of the approach as no one else has: the crucial role of the addict’s family.”

by Robert L. DuPont, M.D., Founding Director on the National Institute of Drug Abuse

Structured Family Recovery® counselor training and certification is a uniquely designed virtual training that creates not only a new clinical skill set, but an entirely different way of thinking about and working with families. Debra Jay designs the most unique training experiences in the addiction field today.

In the tradition of Love First Trainings, participants will graduate from this course with meaningful clinical skills that they can immediately apply to their professional lives and use to build a richer portfolio of competencies to offer clients and patients.

The goal is to learn how to approach families in this revolutionary manner, engaging them on a long-term course of family recovery that “makes recovery, not relapse,” as Dr. DuPont says, “the expected outcome of addiction treatment.”

In over 20 years of specializing in family systems and addiction, I’ve never seen families change so quickly. As a matter of fact, I see things happen in 2 to 3 weeks that, as a profession, we just weren’t able to make happen before. I see how these changes are having a profound effect on reducing the relapse rate in families.

-Steve Hanna, MA, LPC

SFR COURSE BOOK

It Takes a Family

2nd ed., Hazelden, 2021

by Debra Jay

Listen to Debra Jay read the Introduction & Chapter 1

Requirements for admission

Structured Family Recovery^® Counselor Training and Certification is open to experienced addiction professionals: therapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists, addictionologists, and other clinical professionals in the addiction field. In order to apply for this training, a participant must meet the requirements shown below.
(Also note possible exceptions.)

1. Three years full-time or five years part-time relevant clinical experience in the addiction field.

2. Strong knowledge and personal experience in any of the Twelve Step programs.

3. Advanced degree with certification in addiction counseling OR bachelor degree with certification in addiction counseling (CADC, CAP, or other).

4. We ask all applicants to submit a current resume. Apply Here.

EXCEPTIONS: Pastoral care clergy with Twelve Step experience, appropriate staff from HPRP or JLAP programs, and other

To apply for this training
or get more information

888-220-4400

(outside the USA, +1-313-882-6921)

Your tuition price includes:

Students work directly with Debra Jay
All SFR Counselor Training Materials
27 CEU’s
Realistic skill-building simulations
Highly engaging curriculum
Three post-training SFR Counselor supervision sessions or SFR Administrator supervision sessions
SFR Counselor or SFR Administrator certification and seal is awarded upon completion of the three supervision sessions
See above for requirements for admission
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Call Lisa Nagy, CAP, Clinical Coordinator, with questions:
888-220-4400
(outside the USA, +1-313-882-6921)