CRAFT-Informed Virtual Therapy in California, Colorado, Oklahoma & Wisconsin

Therapy for Loved Ones of Someone Struggling with Alcohol or Substance Use (CRAFT-Trained)

Individual therapy to help you navigate communication, boundaries, and patterns when someone you care about is struggling with alcohol or substance use.

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Your World Has Started Revolving Around Their Choices

When someone you care about is struggling with alcohol or substance use, you may feel hyperaware of their drinking, responsible for keeping things stable, exhausted from conversations that go nowhere, or afraid of making it worse.

You do not have to manage this alone.

At Kinship Care, therapy for loved ones is grounded in the CRAFT protocol — an evidence-based approach that helps partners, parents, and loved ones respond with greater clarity, steadiness, and intention. This work integrates trauma informed care to support your nervous system too.

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What Is Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) ?

CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training) is an evidence-based approach that helps loved ones:

  • Improve communication

  • Reducing unintentional reinforcement of alcohol and/or substance use

  • Reinforce healthy, non-using behaviors

  • Allow natural consequences to occur

  • Improve their own quality of life

Unlike confrontation-based models, CRAFT does not rely on ultimatums.

Instead of:
“If you don’t quit, I’m done.”

We explore:
“How can I respond in ways that reduce escalation and increase the likelihood of change?”

Research shows that CRAFT-informed approaches significantly increase the chance that a person struggling with substance use will engage in care — often more effectively than pressure or confrontation.

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Your Brain Keeps Score.

Living alongside someone else's use takes a quiet toll. You may find yourself hypervigilant, tracking moods and monitoring behavior without even realizing you are doing it. Sleep becomes disrupted. Conversations repeat themselves. You cycle through hope and disappointment so many times that a low-grade resentment starts to settle in.

You may start shrinking yourself to keep the peace, minimizing your own needs, adjusting your behavior to prevent conflict, questioning whether your reactions are even reasonable.

Their use may be the visible issue. But your nervous system has been impacted too.

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This Is Not About Controlling Them

CRAFT-informed protocol is not about controlling someone's alcohol or substance use.

It is about:

  • Responding in ways that reduce unintentional reinforcement

  • Strengthening clear, effective communication

  • Allowing natural consequences to occur

  • Improving your own quality of life

You cannot force someone to change. But you can shift how you respond.

When patterns shift, dynamics shift.

If your loved one becomes open to their own support, this work can connect directly with Harm Reduction Therapy as part of a coordinated plan.

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Therapy for Parents, Partners & Adult Loved One’s

This support may be helpful if you:

  • Feel stuck between helping and enabling

  • Walk on eggshells around drinking

  • Constantly monitor behavior

  • Struggle with boundaries

  • Feel resentment building

  • Worry about safety but don’t want to escalate

  • Want tools that are practical, not abstract

CRAFT-informed protocol provides structured, measurable strategies — not just emotional processing. You will learn what to say, what not to say, how to respond differently, and how to protect your own stability.

You do not have to figure this out alone, and you do not have to wait for your loved one to be ready before you begin.

What Makes This Approach Different

CRAFT-informed therapy at Kinship Care is:

  • Evidence-based

  • Grounded in structured communication strategies

  • Trauma informed — because supporting someone else's substance use affects your nervous system too

  • Nonjudgmental

  • Skill-based and measurable

  • Collaborative

You will not be told to detach. You will not be handed a script of ultimatums. You will not be made to feel responsible for their choices.

Instead, we slow down. We build your steadiness. We give you tools that actually change the dynamic.

All sessions are fully virtual for adults in California, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.

You Deserve Support, Too

You do not have to collapse your needs to keep things stable.

You do not have to monitor every conversation.

You do not have to carry this silently.

If you are navigating someone else’s alcohol or substance use and want structured, nonjudgmental support grounded in harm reduction principles, we can begin with a consultation.

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"I feel at ease in Maddie's presence. She has unique tools that may offer an important alternative for those with a problematic relationship to substances. Her expertise is hard to find!"

—Matianna Baldassari, LMFT

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes. CRAFT was specifically designed for situations where the person using is not yet ready for treatment.

  • No. While both support loved ones, CRAFT is structured, skill-based, and behaviorally focused. It teaches communication strategies that can increase the likelihood of treatment engagement.

  • That is common. Therapy helps you understand the difference between punishment and protection.

  • Possibly. If your loved one becomes open to support, we may integrate harm reduction therapy into a coordinated plan.