Family Recovery Therapy Certification Program

Family Recovery Therapy is an innovative and successful treatment for addiction that involves the entire family system. Certification enables mental health professionals to become a referral source at larryfritzlan.com, and treat clients more successfully than using previous treatment models.

Family Recovery Therapy Certification Program

Help People While Expanding Your Practice

Larry Fritzlan, who is dedicated to ending addiction one family at a time, is excited to offer training and certification to licensed medical and mental health professionals who are interested in becoming Family Recovery therapists.

An Introduction to Family Recovery Therapy

More information about Family Recovery Therapy can be found at larryfritzlan.com

Training is available to licensed medical and mental health professionals who are dedicated to helping addicted family systems recover.

As a Family Recovery therapist, you can combine your knowledge of family therapy and addiction with additional training to provide the help that leads to more successful recovery outcomes for families struggling with addiction and codependency. Current addiction treatment models have only a 50% success rate. Family Recovery therapists learn the most effective treatment approach which can result in much higher success rates. You can build a solid business as a Family Recovery therapist. In providing this substantive treatment, you can experience the rewards of seeing families grow and heal. You can contribute to “ending addiction one family at a time.”
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Family Recovery Therapy certification is an excellent way to expand your practice and help more clients.

Certification is Simple

The certification process includes viewing a series of eight 17- to 43-minute, information-filled training videos and passing a series of quizzes which test your knowledge of the principles and application of Family Recovery Therapy in conjunction with reading our book, Addiction Therapy and Treatment: A Systems Approach. The book is available in Kindle and print format on Amazon.com.
This book presents a radically different addiction treatment paradigm called Family Recovery Therapy that, when followed conscientiously, produces far more successful outcomes than the currently predominant rehab model.
The certification videos are presented by Larry Fritzlan, LMFT, developer of the Family Recovery Therapy program. The videos follow the outline of the book and are a perfect enhancement to the information presented there. The videos also include important information on using the FRT model to begin treatment with family members and to address the entire family system. It's the healing of this system that is key to long-term recovery from addiction and codependency and that will end addiction one family at a time.

Training is available to licensed medical and mental health professionals who work with families, have basic education in family systems and addiction, and are dedicated to helping addictive/codependent family systems recover. The clinician who is trained to think systemically and to understand the unconscious dynamics at play in both enabling and perpetuating the disease of addiction is the right person for the job of bringing Family Recovery Therapy to families in need.

Certification Program Topics

  • Why is it necessary to have a new paradigm in addiction treatment?
  • The 14 basic principles of Family Recovery Therapy
  • Beginning treatment with the family members
  • The process of treatment
  • The role of social support groups
  • Nuts and bolts: The first phone call, client agreements, testing for substance use
  • Working with other treatment providers including doctors, psychiatrists, residential treatment center staff, sober living environment managers
  • Finances and building a Family Recovery Therapy practice

Join Our Professional Referral Network

After fulfilling the certification requirements, you will be listed on this website as a certified Family Recovery therapist. You will also have access to monthly live group coaching calls with Larry Fritzlan. The fee for the training program is $500.*

* For the first 25 clinicians who enroll in the certification course, the fee is only $25. Use the discount code SAILBOAT when purchasing the course to receive the discount.”