The Living Room’s treatment programme is rooted in the Twelve Step approach to addiction recovery, pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1930s. The twelve-step programmes are based on the set of guiding principles, originally developed by Alcoholics Anonymous, for recovery from addictive, compulsive or other behavioural problems.
Service users are encouraged to attend fellowship meetings during their treatment at The Living Room and continue to do so once they have graduated.
Alcoholics Anonymous
The first of the fellowships, AA has several thousand meetings in the UK alone and weekly groups can be found in towns across Hertfordshire.
Narcotics Anonymous
NA is a non-profit fellowship of men and women for whom drugs have become a major problem. The group consists of recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. They follow a programme of complete abstinence from all drugs.
Cocaine Anonymous
Cocaine Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other so that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from their addiction. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using cocaine and all other mind-altering substances.
Overeaters Anonymous
Overeaters Anonymous is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. It welcomes everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively.
Gamblers Anonymous
Gamblers Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to do the same.
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
SLAA is open to anyone who knows or thinks they have a problem with sex addiction, love addiction, romantic obsession, co-dependent relationships, fantasy addiction and/or sexual, social and emotional anorexia.
Al Anon
Al-Anon Family Groups provide support to anyone whose life is, or has been, affected by someone else’s drinking, regardless of whether that person is still drinking or not.
Co-dependents Anonymous (CoDA)
CoDA is a set of informal self-help groups made up of men and women with a common interest in working through the problems that co-dependency has caused in their lives.
Debtors Anonymous
Debtors Anonymous (DA) is a twelve-step programme for anyone who wants to stop incurring unsecured debt.