Outpatient addiction treatment programs Las Vegas Recovery Center is proud to present the 2008 ClearLife® Clinic with the clinic founders John & Linda Friel.

Research shows that men and women who have authentic emotional support from others who know them "warts and all," live longer, fight disease better, are less likely to have heart attacks, are less likely to be depressed, and are more adaptive and flexible in the face of life's unpredictability. Since 1985, over 6,000 people have attended the ClearLife® Clinic.

It is a gentle 3½ day process composed of lectures and small-group work. Participants take a respectful look at family-of-origin--much like doing "psychological archaeology." They identify some of the patterns they are still playing out that are causing them problems, and then learn some new patterns to replace those in the here-and-now. There is a maximum of 7 people per small group.

There is a strong emphasis on helping participants move through and out of Victim or Perpetrator Cycles of Behavior into cycles of Competent Adult Behavior. Participants often come to work on the following issues…

Relationship difficulties
Depression (non-biological)
Anger problems
Addictions
Anxiety
Compulsive Behaviors
Career or Identity Issues
Stress

Admission to the ClearLife® Clinic is by application. Screening includes a comprehensive Intake Form, psychological testing if additional information is required, and consultation with the applicant’s therapist if there is one. If not, we encourage applicants to have a therapist with whom to work, after the program has been completed.

The program takes place over a four-day block Thursday through Sunday, from 8:30a-5:00pm, with the Sunday class 8:30am-12pm. The program is considered to be a personal growth workshop by insurance carriers.

People often wait ‘til the last minute to sign up for programs like these. Sometimes people think about doing this kind of work a few years before they actually sign up. The thought of doing group work creates anxiety for everyone, no matter how much experience they’ve had.

All we can say is that as far as group programs like this go, we have made it as safe and as low-threat as possible. Within 45 minutes of the start of the program, most people are feeling significantly more comfortable than when they began.

Couples and Individuals: The ClearLife® Clinic is for both individuals and couples. But, we handle most couples differently than we did in the 1980’s. In 1991 Linda Friel began experimenting with putting both partners of a couple into the same small group, with the same facilitator, rather than splitting the partners up by putting them into different groups. It immediately became clear that this was an ideal way for couples to learn to have differentiated intimacy because the structure of the program "asks" each person to do his or her own work within his or her small group. Doing one’s work with a partner present, but under rules which prevent the partner from rescuing, giving advice, or attempting to control their mate, allows both of the partners to begin to manage their own anxiety, thereby increasing differentiation.

So, while the program is structured for you to do individual work, one of the most intimate experiences a person can have is to witness his or her partner doing that work, without getting in the way. Paradoxically, it increases closeness and empathy and decreases enmeshment and exaggerated dependency—all of which mean deeper, truly grown- up intimacy.

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Four-Day ClearLife® Clinic

Thursday-Sunday
October 2-5, 2008

Thursday 8:30 am-5:00 pm
Friday 8:30 am-6:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 am-6:00 pm
Sunday 9:00 am-12:00 pm

$895

ClearLife® Clinic reveals the coping skills acquired and practiced due to the pressures of daily life and how these skills can be ineffective and destructive.

Admission to the ClearLife® Clinic is by application only. Insurance carriers have underwritten this specific psychotherapy; however, providers and coverage vary.

Presenters: John C. Friel, PhD & Linda D. Friel, MA
John C. Friel, Ph.D. and Linda D. Friel, M.A., are licensed psychologists in private practice in St. Paul, Minnesota. John also practices in the Reno-Tahoe area, where Linda is a Mentor/Life Coach. They have been on Oprah, MSNBC, and 20/20. They have also appeared in USA Today, Cosmopolitan, and are New York Times bestselling authors who have sold over ½ million books. Titles include: Adult Children: Secrets of Dysfunctional Families and The Seven Best Things (Happy) Couples Do. In the past 20 years, their clinic has helped more that 6,000 people identify and change childhood patterns of behavior, beliefs, and feelings so they can begin living a clearer life.

Workshops & lectures will be held at The Rooms* (an initiative of Foundation for Recovery), 4750 W. Sahara Ave., Ste. 10, Las Vegas, NV. For workshops, lectures, & ClearLife® Clinic, please RSVP to Sandra at (702) 515-1374.
* Las Vegas Recovery Center is not affiliated with Foundation For Recovery or The Rooms.
The ClearLife® Clinic name, program content and process is the property of John and Linda Friel/Friel Associates, Reno, NV.