A steady hand for families who are not sure what comes next.
Gianna Yunker helps families understand what is happening, steady the family system, and find the next right step through compassionate intervention expertise, family systems support, and recovery-focused coaching.
You do not need to know whether your situation calls for an intervention, coaching, treatment navigation, or longer-term family support before you reach out. That is part of the work.
Start with what your family is experiencing.
These pathways are meant to help families self-recognize without having to diagnose the problem or choose the final plan alone.
We may need an intervention
For families who may need a formal intervention process and want careful preparation, clear guidance, and a compassionate approach.
Learn more →The family system is stuck
For families caught in patterns of crisis, fear, conflict, rescue, accommodation, burnout, or uncertainty.
Learn more →A transition is coming
For families navigating fragile moments before, during, or after treatment and other major recovery transitions.
Learn more →The situation is layered
For concerns involving cannabis-induced psychosis, complex mental health, disordered eating, or overlapping recovery needs.
Learn more →Intervention is one option. The family system is always part of the work.
Formal intervention can be the right step for some families. Other families need preparation, coaching, treatment-transition support, or a different way to communicate before the next decision becomes clear.
Gianna’s work centers the family system. That means looking at patterns of fear, rescue, conflict, accommodation, silence, burnout, and disconnection with care and practical direction.
The goal is to help the family move from reaction to steadier action.
Clear paths without forcing a premature answer.
Family Systems Support
Support for families trying to change patterns around crisis, fear, accommodation, conflict, rescue, and burnout.
Transitions Coaching
Continuity and family support through the moments before, during, and after treatment or major life changes.
Interventions
Careful planning and compassionate direction when a formal intervention may be the right step.
Cannabis Use Disorder and Cannabis-Induced Psychosis
Careful, non-alarmist family support when cannabis use and psychiatric symptoms may be part of the crisis.
Complex Mental Health
Family-centered support when engagement, communication, planning, and coordination are difficult.
Disordered Eating
Specialized family support for disordered eating, treatment resistance, transitions, and co-occurring concerns.
A free weekly support group for families.
Living Alongside Recovery is a free virtual family support group held Tuesday evenings at 7pm. It is skills-based and open to families nationwide.
Each week, families explore a short reading related to family recovery and talk about how to apply it to real-life situations. The goal is practical support families can use right away.
Learn about the groupA family-support resource for complicated situations.
Gianna works with families navigating complicated addiction, mental health, disordered eating, treatment engagement, and recovery-transition situations.
For clinicians, the referral path should feel clear and safe: Gianna can support families around the clinical work, help them prepare for difficult decisions, and remain involved beyond an acute intervention moment when appropriate.
Professional referralsStart with a conversation
You do not need a script. You do not need a final plan. You can reach out with the situation as it is.