To help other parents on adult child with addiction
To help other parents, I felt the need to give a review as a parent of a 26 daughter who suffered with alcohol addiction. Sadly, her alcohol addiction progressively became out of control and as a parent I tried everything to help and support her. My daughter tried addiction/anxiety counselling, a 28 day out-patient rehab program during lockdown, CBT Therapy etc …. Nothing seemed to work and in desperation, I felt my only option was for my daughter to attend a rehab as we sadly could not manager her anymore. She was majorly self-destroying herself, very broken and unable to function.
I did not have the luxury of time to visit any rehab clinics but looked on-line and came across Acquiesce. On reading the website and reviews I contacted Acquiesce and explained my situation. I spoke directly with Danielle who calmed me down and reassured me that they could help and explained that alcoholism was a disease but it could be successfully treated. Whilst we waited 2 weeks for the bed to come up, my daughter received calls from Tina, the Senior Practitioner who supported and guided my daughter whilst her place came up.
We drove my daughter to Acquiesce on the 10th February which was one of the hardest things I ever did. My daughter felt extremely nervous but on arrival we were welcomed by a few members of the team, Ady, Tina and Ste who immediately welcomed and reassured us that my daughter would be well looked after as she was extremely fragile and broken.
Thankfully my daughter immediately settled into the Acquiesce treatment programme and stayed 8 weeks. I am forever grateful to the Acquiesce team who provided my daughter with the knowledge and tools to function and achieve sobriety and deal with her anxiety issues. I am especially eternally grateful to Tina (my daughter’s allocated Practitioner) who is amazing at her job!!
As well as working with my daughter she also regularly contacted me with updates and also guided me through my daughter’s recovery and also our healing process as a family. I connected very well with Tina and found our conversations to be therapeutic and extremely beneficial for me. Tina is so passionate and excellent at her job! I am going to really miss our calls!! I also have to add, whilst Tina was on annual leave, I spoke with Ste, who was also very understanding, supportive and passionate in my daughter’s recovery.
My daughter is now back in the family home and is doing amazing well and is following the tools she has learnt from Acquiesce. She has made amazing friendships through Acquiesce and receives an amazing after care service and is regularly attending meetings which are so beneficial to her. I have also connected with other parents from Acquiesce which has also been an amazing help and support to me.
Thank you to all the team at Acquiesce – you are all true professionals!
June 10, 2022
Unprompted review