FAQ's
All addictions from substance abuse such as alcohol, benzodiazepines, cocaine, opioids, and amphetamines, as well as to behavioural addictions such as gambling, sex addiction, through to digital addictions such as to gaming or social media.
As soon as possible after a comprehensive assessment to evaluate your primary concerns, needs, and goals.
We focus not only on your concerns but on all underlying issues. After the in-depth assessment, we will discuss from our experience a customised recovery support program needed to meet your needs.
All our work is done in concert with your own doctor, sponsor, life coach, outpatient substance abuse program, sober living home, or any other recovery method.
Packages are reasonable for what is offered. They can be scaled up or down depending on your budget and needs.
Talk to us today to understand what is appropriate for you to get you mentally and emotionally to a position of greater control & personal peace.
Recovery Support focuses on finding solutions and maximising your strengths.
You will find purpose in life and get practical help with issues such as:
- Developing a sustainable recovery plan
- Preventing relapse
- Removing obstacles to your recovery
- Building a support network
- Learning strategies to reduce stress
- Learning about the impact of addiction on your body
- Coping skills for negative emotions
- Building self-esteem and confidence
- Dealing with family and relationship issues
- Setting healthy boundaries with those you are in contact with.
We can provide assistance for high-conflict situations.
Also make suggestions for high quality sleep, hygiene, mindfulness strategies, nutritional recovery, and fitness.
We will also help you find resources in the community to support your recovery.
Yes, highly recommended. The benefits of one on one recovery support cannot be emphasised enough both during and post recovering from any addiction.
When taking back control of your life, it is essential that you stay on track developing healthy habits and choices.
We find that not doing so may compromise your long term recovery, or you recognise you’re on a downward spiral and at risk for relapse. A one on one period of recovery support will defiantly help.
This is also particularly helpful in order to refresh and enhance your recovery program, especially during times of personal change or crisis such as a career change, relationship breakup or other major personal event.
The clearest signs aren’t the dramatic ones — they’re the small, consistent changes. New secrecy about his phone and whereabouts, money going missing, sleep and appetite swinging, old friends disappearing, and a short fuse when you ask simple questions. One of these is normal teenage life; several together, getting worse over weeks, is worth taking seriously. You don’t need proof to start a calm, caring conversation. If you ever believe he’s in immediate danger, call 000.
Hidden drinking usually shows up as a gap between what you see and what you sense — bottles that empty faster than they should, drinking before events “to relax,” defensiveness when it’s mentioned, or a personality that shifts by evening. Functioning people hide it well, which is exactly why it’s so isolating to live with. Trusting that gut feeling isn’t being dramatic; it’s usually the first accurate read.
Yes — and it’s one of the most misunderstood things about addiction. Plenty of people hold down demanding careers, pay the mortgage, and look entirely “fine” while a dependency quietly runs underneath. High-functioning doesn’t mean low-risk; it usually means the problem is better hidden and the reckoning comes later. The absence of a rock-bottom is not the absence of a problem.
A useful line isn’t a number of drinks — it’s whether alcohol has started making decisions for you. If you’re drinking more than you meant to, struggling to stop once you start, planning your day around it, or feeling worse without it, the amount matters less than the loss of choice. That shift from “I drink” to “I need to drink” is the real signal.
Because by the time it’s a problem, alcohol isn’t the problem — it’s the solution to something underneath. It’s quieting anxiety, numbing a memory, smoothing a feeling you’ve never had help with. “Just stop” asks you to remove the coping tool without addressing what you were coping with, which is why willpower alone so often fails. Real change starts by understanding what the drinking was *for*.
It’s neither label, and the debate misses the point. The first use might be a choice; what follows is a pattern that rewires how the brain handles reward, stress and self-control — so by the time someone’s stuck, “just choose differently” stops working. What actually helps isn’t deciding whose fault it is, but understanding the pain driving it and building something stronger around the person. Blame is a dead end; understanding is a doorway.
Relapse isn’t proof you lack discipline — it’s usually a sign the support around you was too thin for the moment you were in. Wanting to stop is necessary but not sufficient; the high-risk windows (stress, loneliness, the first few months after treatment) need structure and a person in your corner, not just resolve. A relapse is information, not a verdict. It tells you where the gap is so you can close it.
Because in the moment, the using solves a problem that feels bigger than the consequences — and shame makes it worse, not better. Knowing it’s destructive and being able to stop are two different things; the knowing often deepens the self-hatred that drives the next use. What breaks the cycle isn’t more warnings about the damage, it’s someone helping him face what the drug is actually doing for him.
Start by getting calm and informed before you get tough — ultimatums delivered in panic almost always backfire. Have one honest, non-shaming conversation, learn what support actually exists (it’s more than just rehab), and get support for *yourself* too, because you can’t pour from empty. Then build a real pathway rather than a single dramatic intervention. If he’s in immediate danger or has overdosed, call 000 now.
Pick a sober, private moment — never mid-argument or mid-drink. Lead with what you’ve felt, not what he’s done (“I’ve been scared and lonely”) rather than (“you have a problem”), because the first invites a conversation and the second invites a defence. Name one specific thing, say you’re on his side, and don’t try to solve it all in one talk. The goal of the first conversation is just to open the door.
You hold the boundary and you stop carrying it alone. You can’t force an adult into change, but you can stop shielding them from the natural consequences, get your own support, and keep the door open without setting yourself on fire to keep them warm. Often the most powerful thing isn’t another plea — it’s them seeing you get steadier while they don’t. And when they’re ready, having a pathway already in place changes everything.
This is the part almost nobody prepares you for, and it’s where most relapse happens. Residential treatment ends, the structure vanishes overnight, and someone returns to the same life with new tools but no scaffolding — often feeling raw, flat or overwhelmed rather than “better.” The first 90 days are the most vulnerable window in recovery. What protects it is ongoing, real-world support: someone who’s walked it, helping you hold the line day to day. That gap is exactly what Redwood exists to close.
A recovery coach is someone with lived experience of addiction and recovery who works alongside you in real life — building structure, accountability and momentum after the clinical part is done. It’s not treatment, therapy or diagnosis; it’s a peer who’s been where you are, helping you actually live the recovery day to day. Rehab gets you started and therapy can go deep on the past — coaching is the person walking next to you through the ordinary days where recovery is really won or lost.
Protect the first 90 days like they’re everything, because they nearly are. That means structure (a predictable routine), connection (people who get it, not just willpower), a plan for your specific triggers, and consistent contact with someone in your corner between the big moments. Relapse rarely happens at the crisis point — it happens in the quiet, unstructured gaps. Filling those gaps with real support is the whole game.
No — AA helps many people, but it’s one path, not the only one, and it doesn’t fit everyone. Some people thrive in the fellowship and the steps; others need something more private, more flexible, or built around their own life rather than a meeting schedule. One-to-one peer coaching is one such alternative — the same lived-experience understanding, delivered around you. The best option is simply the one you’ll actually stick with.
Less like a finish line and more like a practice — small, repeated choices that slowly rebuild a life worth protecting. It’s structure in the morning, honesty when it’s hard, people you can call, and learning to sit with feelings you used to numb. It isn’t constant willpower or white-knuckling; done right, it gets lighter as the new life becomes more rewarding than the old one. Recovery isn’t the absence of the substance — it’s the presence of something better.
There’s no clean number, and anyone promising one is selling something. The acute phase — getting stable and building new habits — is often measured in months, but recovery as a way of living is ongoing and gets easier, not harder, with time and support. The more useful question isn’t “how long until I’m fixed” but “what support keeps me protected through the vulnerable stretches.” With the right scaffolding, the early grind gives way to a life that mostly runs itself.
Yes. Residential rehab is one option, not the only one, and it doesn’t suit everyone — especially professionals who can’t disappear for a month and value their privacy. Private one-to-one recovery coaching gives you structure, accountability and someone who’s been there, delivered confidentially around your schedule, in person or by secure video. You can get serious help without putting your career or reputation on hold.
Yes — and discretion is the whole point. For high-functioning people, the fear usually isn’t the addiction itself, it’s what exposure would cost: the career, the standing, the family’s view. Private recovery coaching is built for exactly that — confidential, flexible, judgement-free support that fits around a demanding life rather than interrupting it. You don’t have to choose between getting help and protecting everything you’ve built.
Quietly and with the right support, which is more achievable than it feels at 2am. You don’t need a public declaration or a month away — you need a private, structured plan and someone in your corner who understands both the addiction and the need for discretion. Trying to white-knuckle it entirely alone is the hardest and least reliable route; a confidential coach changes the odds without changing what anyone else sees.