Tom Barthel Consulting

Should You Be Worried
About Your Kids and
Drugs?

NAVIGATING YOUR HOME LIFE WHILE MOTIVATING YOUR
CHILD OFF DRUGS, ALCOHOL, AND OUT OF TROUBLE.

As a parent with a young person abusing drugs and alcohol, you’re faced with unique challenges in your home and family life. These conflicts between parent and child can lead to confusion, fear of what may come, and marital stress. What’sworse, is when your child may run away from home and get in trouble with the law. That situation can lead to some desperate and long lasting decisions made, and words said.

Counselling For Youth May Help, but It May Not Be the Complete Solution

While counselling and treatment for youth can make a difference, it may not be the only solution. Sometimes youth do not attend, and that counselling does not always address the trouble in you experience in your home with your youth on a daily level.

Partnering With You for Parental Success

Drawing on my experience as a former drug dealer and troubled youth myself, I partner with parents like you to deliver evidence-based strategies for parents with troubled and substance abusing youth.

Tailored Solutions for Your Family

Through personalized sessions, we’ll work together to identify effective strategies that resonate with your family dynamics and your teenager’s and young adult’s specific needs.

Overcoming Your Family’s Obstacles

Through personalized sessions, we’ll work together to identify efaWe will tackle functional issues like teen defiance, necessary subject matters that must be brought up with the youth, and deceitful behavior of a young adult child with an active addiction. fective strategies that resonate with your family dynamics and your teenager’s and young adult’s specific needs.

I must tell you Jim and I walked away with a wealth of information from you. Even better, our relationship with our son since this class has been awesome. He has not left home, he is working, going to school and back playing hockey!!!

– D & J. R. , Sylvan Lake, Ab

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I must tell you Jim and I walked away with a wealth of information from you. Even better, our relationship with our son since this class has been awesome. He has not left home, he is working, going to school and back playing hockey!!!

– D & J. R. , Sylvan Lake, Ab

Benefits Include:

For you as a parent:
Clarity:
  • What to do, what to say, how to do it, and why it will work.
  • Understanding how things got this way when your other children did not have problems.
  • Understanding your strengths.
  • Identifying your blind spots.
Household functioning:
  • Templated rules for households that other families used that succeeded.
  • Rules and boundaries that shape your youth into independent and self sufficient adults.
Your emotional well being:
  • Ending disputes between spouses.
  • Feeling of relief when young people begin to succeed.
  • Improved mood, sleep, and stress management
  • Improved leadership amongst your other youth.
  • Affection and relatability from your young person again.
For your youth:
Self awareness:
  • Admission they have made mistakes.
  • Awareness that drugs, alcohol, and crime will not lead to the future they desire.
Compliance:
  • Begin to attend therapy, counsellors, and addiction recovery groups.
  • Return to school or begin functional employment.
Emotional:
  • Increased confidence and sense of direction.
  • Acts of discipline that show the young person they can control their behavior.
  • Affection for the parents again.
13–17-year-olds:
  • A plan to move home under and get off drugs and attend treatment.
18–25-year-olds:
  • A plan to finish high school in, and begin functional employment.
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I must tell you Jim and I walked away with a wealth of information from you. Even better, our relationship with our son since this class has been awesome. He has not left home, he is working, going to school and back playing hockey!!!

– D & J. R. , Sylvan Lake, Ab

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