Our clients are parents, spouses, sons, and daughters. They belong to families who have had to sit by helplessly, watching someone they love slowly self-destruct, while suffering alongside them. Addiction is never an individual issue. Even when only one person is engaging in harmful behaviors, the entire family carries the emotional cost.

At Deslongchamps Recovery, we do not view addiction as a disease. We understand addiction as an adaptive response—an attempt to soothe pain that began long before substances, compulsive behaviors, or destructive patterns ever appeared. Addiction is rooted in trauma, most often childhood trauma. Trauma is not defined by what happened, but by how it was experienced internally, especially when a child lacked safety, connection, or emotional attunement. When those early needs are unmet, the nervous system learns to seek relief wherever it can later in life.

Many of our clients grew up in environments where emotional presence was missing—sometimes due to addiction, sometimes due to work, ambition, infidelity, emotional distance, or relentless pressure to perform. Wealth, success, and privilege do not protect children from trauma. In fact, they often hide it exceptionally well.

Our clients understand this. They see the long-term impact their absence, behaviors, or coping mechanisms have had on their children and spouses. Some come to us when they are facing divorce, estrangement, or complete emotional collapse within the family. Others come from a place of clarity and responsibility, knowing that if they do not intervene now, the cycle will repeat through the next generation.

Some of our clients are not yet ready to stop their own addictive behaviors. Even so, they make the wise and courageous decision to send their family through our program. We deeply value that choice. Because Deslongchamps Recovery is a family-centered recovery program, we are able to work with spouses, partners, and children even if the individual engaging in harmful behaviors is not yet participating. If you cannot stop right now, it is still critical that your family receives support. You are welcome to join us at any point—just please do not continue allowing your family to suffer in silence.

Many of our clients are financially successful, which often comes at the cost of being perpetually unavailable. Children internalize emotional absence as unworthiness. From a child’s nervous system, it makes no difference whether the parent is absent due to substances, work, social lives, technology, or distraction—the impact is the same. This is why some of our clients choose to prioritize healing for their families even before they can fully face their own recovery.

We created Deslongchamps Recovery because we know this reality personally. The entire family has been affected, and the entire family needs healing. Our clients recognize that while trauma is not their fault, healing is their responsibility.

They also recognize a painful truth: there is little worse than finally changing your own life, only to watch your children begin walking the same destructive path you once did. At that point, intervention becomes limited—and the regret can be unbearable. Many of our clients come to us saying, “If I can’t fully save myself yet, I can at least protect my family.” We agree. Saving one is better than losing everyone.

We do not promise to fix everything. Some relationships have been damaged deeply. Some marriages may not survive. We believe in radical honesty. What we do promise is relentless effort—diligent, compassionate, and comprehensive support for every person involved. We will go the extra mile to repair what can be repaired and to help each individual heal, regardless of the outcome.

Our clients understand they have a responsibility to try—to repair the people they love, even if forgiveness or reconciliation is not guaranteed.

We value families profoundly, especially those who reach out for help. Our team of experts is available day and night. Once a client or family comes to us, our support does not end. We are there for life, in any area of their lives.

We are especially passionate about the children. Children who complete our program do not simply “cope”—they transform. We walk through the fire with them and gently guide them into the strongest, healthiest versions of themselves. We leave no stone unturned, and we remain available to them indefinitely.

Any member of the family is welcome to contact us—spouses, partners, parents, adult children, or extended family. You do not need permission. You do not need certainty. A simple conversation can change the trajectory of an entire family.

We are here because we understand the cycle of trauma and addiction. We have lived it. We also understand how to break it—and how to build something stronger, healthier, and more meaningful in its place.

Please do not wait until it is too late. Save yourself. Save your family. Break the cycle.

If you are too busy to come to us, we will come to you.

Reach out. Call us. Write to us. There is no obligation—just a conversation about what is happening and what is possible.

You’ve already succeeded in many areas of life.
Now it’s time to succeed where it matters most.

Welcome to a world of change and infinite possibilities.

— Deslongchamps Recovery