ACOA Assessment Tool Available for Your Practice

Recognising the Signs: A Valuable Resource for Therapists

Meet Claire, a client many of us would recognise.

She arrives at your practice bone-weary. Exhausted from constantly second-guessing everyone around her, working tirelessly to keep others happy while neglecting her own needs.

She's tired, overwhelmed, and feels like a complete burden to society. Her children seem to take advantage of her giving nature. Her partner does the same. Her workplace dynamics feel impossible to navigate.

Claire knows something about her upbringing influences her current struggles, but she can't quite identify what. She constantly wonders if she's the only person in the world who doesn't know what she's doing. Everyone else appears to have their lives together whilst she feels like the worst parent, the worst partner.

Why are all her relationships so incredibly difficult?

Then Claire discovers she has Adult Child of Alcoholic (ACOA) traits, and suddenly everything clicks into place. The pieces of her puzzle finally make sense.

Supporting Your Clients with ACOA Assessment

This assessment tool helps you identify clients who may benefit from targeted support around family dependency trauma. Whether their parents or caregivers struggled with substance dependency or process addictions (gambling, workaholism, perfectionism), the impact on children creates lasting patterns that show up in adult relationships.

Use this assessment to:

Screen clients presenting with relationship difficulties, boundary issues, or people-pleasing behaviours

Open conversations about family-of-origin experiences

Identify clients who would benefit from specialised family dependency trauma therapeutic approaches

Validate your clients' experiences and help them understand their patterns

Transform your assessment insights into meaningful therapeutic progress. Give your ACOA clients the comprehensive support they deserve whilst building your expertise in this specialised area.

Ready to enhance your practice with proven ACOA therapeutic tools?