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Noel shared his experience of working with couples where one or both has issues of addiction or co-dependency. Where one or both may be in formal recovery groups such as AA or where one or both is in denial of their need for support into recovery from addiction or co-dependency. What is the impact of denial, trauma, cross-addiction, co-dependent loss of the victim-caretaker role?

Noel will share his experience over the past 20 years of working with families moving from survival to recovery.

This is a fascinating area of work often asking the therapist to move beyond the therapeutic frame into the social, political, child welfare (safeguarding), legal, ethical, economic cultural areas of human experience.

How can we as psychotherapists engage with this process? This was the substance of the conversation with Noel McDermott. A psychotherapist who specialises in facilitating addicts into mutual aid programs.

Noel explored some of the evidence base for mutual aid, present his work in the main form of mutual aid ’12 Step’ (AA. NA. CoDA. Al-Anon. Al-Ateen. SLAA. OA. GA. UA etc). Looking at the dynamics of the steps, how they interface into psychotherapeutic practice.

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Alastair McNaughton delivered this presentation at the Simpson House Recovery Conference in July 2012