Carole Bennett, MA Family Substance Abuse Counselor comes on the show to discuss Family Recovery Solutions; a counseling center geared toward the family and friends that are struggling with their loved ones addiction issues. In a safe, confidential environment, Carole works with the family members as they learn about their own healing process and the important role they play regarding their loved ones recovery – or not.
Guest Info
For over twenty years, Carole Bennett, MA has been personally enmeshed in the world of addiction and recovery with her own family’s alcohol and drug dependency issues. Professionally, her Master’s in Clinical Psychology has afforded her work as a treatment counselor for the Salvation Army and the Council of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.
A decade ago, Carole founded Family Recovery Solutions; a counseling center geared toward the family and friends that are struggling with their loved ones addiction issues. Here, in a safe, confidential environment, Carole works with the family members as they learn about their own healing process and the important role they play regarding their loved ones recovery – or not.
Carole is a staff blogger on addiction and recovery for Psychology Today and the Huffington Post’s Living Section, has written numerous articles for recovery newspapers, lectured and presented commentary for KCBS in conjunction with the television movie about Lois Wilson; the co-founder of Al-Anon.
Carole’s first book Reclaim Your Life – You and the Alcoholic/Addict, has become an invaluable guide for the family members and friends, clinician’s, recovery centers as well as the alcoholic/addict themselves.
It is endorsed by the President/CEO of the National Council on Alcoholism and other Drug Dependencies, Inc and is displayed and referenced at the Betty Ford Center.
