Citta Balance offers four connected services. They can stand alone or weave together, depending on what a person or family needs. Every one of them is trauma-informed and grounded in the same contemplative foundation — and every one begins with a conversation, not a commitment.

CRAFT Family Support

When someone you love is struggling with substances or their mental health, the advice you're given often makes things worse — detach, wait for rock bottom, give ultimatums. Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) offers a different, research-backed path. It teaches families how to support their loved one's movement toward help while protecting their own wellbeing, using communication and reinforcement strategies shown to improve outcomes for the whole family.

This work typically unfolds over a series of sessions, beginning with understanding your specific situation — the patterns, the history, what's already been tried. From there, sessions build practical skill: how to communicate in ways that open doors rather than close them, how to recognize and reinforce positive steps, and how to care for your own wellbeing while supporting someone else's. This isn't a script to memorize. It's a set of tools adapted to your family, your loved one, and your circumstances.

Systems Navigation

Recovery rarely happens in one place. It moves through treatment programs, healthcare providers, insurance, and a tangle of services that no one hands you a map for. Systems Navigation is practical, informed guidance through that landscape — helping individuals and families understand their options, ask the right questions, and advocate effectively so that energy goes toward healing rather than toward fighting the system.

This includes systems specific to youth — schools, juvenile justice, foster care, and pediatric treatment — as well as the adult care, developmental centers, and healthcare systems families more commonly encounter. Licensure and specific system familiarity vary by location, so reach out and we'll quickly confirm what's available where you are. Systems Navigation is available to clients based in the United States.

Restorative Circles

Restorative Circles are facilitated processes that bring people together to address harm, de-escalate conflict, and repair relationships. Rather than assigning blame, a circle creates a structured, held space where everyone is heard and where genuine understanding becomes possible.

The process begins with individual conversations — understanding each person's experience and readiness before anyone is brought together. From there, a circle is carefully prepared: agreements are set, the space is held with intention, and every participant has a voice. Circles are grounded in restorative justice research and are especially powerful for families, employers and communities working to rebuild trust after a period of crisis. Follow-up support is available after a circle concludes, since repair is rarely finished in a single conversation.

Relapse Prevention Planning 

Built on Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention, this service recognizes that the urge to use is not a command — it is a signal that can be understood and worked with. Plans are developed collaboratively over several sessions and drawn from a person's own recovery history: the patterns that have shown up before, the moments they surprised themselves with strength, and an honest account of what has been hardest.

A plan built this way isn't a document that sits in a drawer — it's a living tool, developed with the person who will actually use it, and revisited as life changes. This service is available to individuals in recovery, to family members supporting a loved one's plan, and to both working together, since a plan tends to hold better when the people around someone understand it too.