speaking engagements: on addiction & recovery

After 25 Years of practicing Family Systems Recovery Therapy, Larry is a qualified speaker on substance abuse, addiction, and recovery

Larry Fritzlan is a motivational speaker on substance abuse, addiction, and recovery. He is also a licensed marriage and family therapist, a certified addiction therapist, and a board-certified intervention professional. As a recovering addict himself and the child of an addict, Larry is passionate about helping addicted individuals—and their families—escape the downward spiral of addiction.

Larry is available to speak to professional and lay audiences, to medical and mental health organizations, at conferences, academic institutions, and treatment centers, as a podcast guest, and in broadcast media interviews. His areas of expertise include families, family systems, substance use and abuse, addiction and addiction treatment, and intervention on addicted family systems.

A Fascinating Journey of Discovery

Larry has written three books for those with an addicted family member:

• My Addicted Child,
• My Addicted Spouse, and, 
• My Addicted Parent.

In his most recent book, Addiction Therapy and Treatment: A Systems Approach, he and his co-author Avis Rumney, LMFT, describe this radical approach to addiction treatment and why a different approach is needed.

Instead of the traditional model of addiction treatment, which focuses almost entirely on the addict, Family Recovery Therapy typically begins treatment with the family members–-the family system–-who are most involved with the addict and often are enabling their behavior.

Larry has presented to staff at residential treatment centers and to professional audiences in conference settings. He taught a graduate course on addiction for many years at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

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