Neutralising Hidden Family Rules Therapist Edition
This therapist workbook explores the unspoken family rules that shape the inner and outer lives of those raised in households affected by addiction. Rules like “don’t feel,” “don’t talk,” or “don’t trust” often operate beneath the surface, influencing a client’s beliefs, behaviours, and nervous system responses well into adulthood. The workbook offers clinical insights and tools to help therapists surface, examine, and gently challenge these inherited patterns.
This therapist workbook explores the unspoken family rules that shape the inner and outer lives of those raised in households affected by addiction. Rules like “don’t feel,” “don’t talk,” or “don’t trust” often operate beneath the surface, influencing a client’s beliefs, behaviours, and nervous system responses well into adulthood. The workbook offers clinical insights and tools to help therapists surface, examine, and gently challenge these inherited patterns.
This therapist workbook explores the unspoken family rules that shape the inner and outer lives of those raised in households affected by addiction. Rules like “don’t feel,” “don’t talk,” or “don’t trust” often operate beneath the surface, influencing a client’s beliefs, behaviours, and nervous system responses well into adulthood. The workbook offers clinical insights and tools to help therapists surface, examine, and gently challenge these inherited patterns.
Part of a six-part series, this resource supports trauma-informed work that honours the survival function of these rules while creating space for new, healthier ways of relating. With reflection questions, case examples, and session strategies, it equips therapists to help clients move from unconscious loyalty to conscious choice and emotional freedom.