Family Addiction Educational Workshops
The Lighthouse Family Programme
A Compassionate 6-Week Journey Towards Clarity, Connection, and Family Healing
You don’t have to keep holding it all together on your own.
The Lighthouse Programme is a structured, online six-week family recovery journey for anyone living with — or recovering from — the impact of someone else’s addiction. It isn’t an intervention, and it isn’t confrontational. It’s a steady, guided path towards understanding, boundaries, communication, and connection — for every member of the family, not just the person struggling.
You Are Not Alone in This
Families living with addiction often carry more than anyone else can see.
Exhaustion. Hope. Fear. Guilt. Anger. Love. Sometimes all of it, in the same hour.
You may have spent years trying to fix things, manage things, predict things, prevent things. You may have taken on a role in your family without ever choosing it — the fixer, the peacemaker, the watchdog, the one who holds the hope for everyone else.
You didn’t cause the addiction. You cannot control it. You cannot cure it. But you can change the system — and systems shape recovery.
The Lighthouse Family Programme was built for this exact moment: not crisis intervention, but the steady, structured support that helps a family move from survival mode into something calmer, clearer, and more connected.
What Makes It Different
It’s invitational,
not confrontational
There are no ambushes and no ultimatums. We don’t push or rescue — we offer steady light: clarity, boundaries, compassion, and connection.
It’s built for the
whole family
Every family member’s experience matters. The programme helps each person understand the role they’ve taken on to survive, and how the whole system can shift towards health.
It’s structured,
not vague
Six weeks. A clear theme each week. A defined beginning and end. By the final session, you’ll have a written Family Recovery Plan you can return to again and again.
It’s trauma-informed throughout
Every session assumes nervous systems that have been carrying stress for a long time — shame is often present, defences are natural, and safety has to be built slowly. Nothing here is rushed.
The Six-Week Journey
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Move from blame to understanding. Explore how addiction affects the whole family system and begin to recognise the roles each person has taken on to survive.
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Understand enabling with compassion — as love or fear, not failure. Learn what healthy boundaries actually look like, and begin practising calm, clear boundary language.
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Discover how stress shapes communication, and learn the Lighthouse STOP technique — a simple tool to interrupt automatic reactions and respond from clarity instead of crisis.
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Replace fear and hypervigilance with calm, informed understanding. Learn the Green/Amber/Red model to recognise patterns without catastrophising — and reduce the exhausting work of constant monitoring.
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Understand how trust is genuinely rebuilt — in layers, through consistency, not promises. Process grief for what’s been lost, and begin releasing the “emergency roles” that no longer serve you.
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Bring everything together into a practical, written plan: your family’s values, boundaries, communication agreements, and support network — built to last well beyond the programme itself
What You’ll Walk Away With
A clearer, shame-free understanding of addiction as something that affects the whole family
Language and scripts for setting boundaries without guilt, anger, or conflict
The STOP technique, for staying regulated in conversations that used to spiral
The Green/Amber/Red model, for reading risk without living in constant vigilance
Space to name grief, and to reconnect with who you are outside of crisis
A written Family Recovery Plan — values, boundaries, roles, and support network — built together, for the months ahead
Is This Right for Your Family?
The Lighthouse Family Programme may be right for you if:
You’re exhausted from years of trying to manage, fix, or predict someone else’s choices
Your loved one is in recovery, considering recovery, or you simply want your family to understand addiction better
You’ve tried support groups or one-off sessions, but want something more structured, with a clear beginning and end
You want the whole family involved in healing — not just the person who is struggling
This programme runs alongside, not instead of, treatment or therapy for the person experiencing addiction. It’s built specifically for the family system around them.
Led by Kate Webster
The Lighthouse Programme is led by Kate Webster, Professional Interventionist and Certified Addictions Counsellor, alongside Lighthouse Recovery’s team of therapists and recovery coaches. The same invitational, non-shaming philosophy behind all of Lighthouse Recovery’s work runs through every week of this programme.
Ready to Begin?
Six weeks. One family. A path back towards clarity, connection, and hope.
Why Families Choose the Lighthouse Programme
A Defined, Structured Journey
Six weeks, delivered online, with a clear theme each week and a tangible plan at the end — not open-ended or vague.
Invitation,
Not Ambush
A transparent, non-confrontational approach that removes shame and pressure at every stage.
Healing for
Everyone
The whole family system is supported, not just the person in active addiction.
Expert-Led,
Trauma-Informed
Delivered by professionals trained in systemic family recovery, with pacing built around emotional safety.