Addiction Treatment
Do you drink or use more than you intend?
Are loved ones concerned about your drug or alcohol use?
Do you need drugs or alcohol to manage anxiety, depression or past trauma?
Everyone struggles with a different set of challenges and triggers when it comes to working with addictive substances and behaviors. Because of this, each person needs a slightly different approach to learning new, healthy patterns that will free you from excessive alcohol and/or drug use.
With our contracted therapists, you will learn addiction recovery skills that will work well for your unique situation. Your therapist will start by learning about your needs and circumstances to help you learn to either moderate your use or gain the skills for complete abstinence.
Your therapist will seek to understand you as a whole person: your emotional needs, social needs, medical needs, your family history, and any spiritual or religious resources or challenges you bring.
You and your therapist will assess both your needs and your strengths and create a plan tailored just for you. This may include:
Practical ways to manage thoughts and emotions
Getting social support that works for you
Creating stronger, healthier relationships
Addressing issues with friends and family that may either trigger excess use, or support new goals
Learning practical ways to identify and manage triggers
Creating a plan to help you avoid slipping back into old patterns
Stress management, relaxation, mindfulness
Learning effective self-care strategies
Traditional and alternative tools to integrate care of your body, mind and spirit.
Re-building your confidence and ability to experience healthy pleasures
Your therapist will use a blend of practical, modern, research-based tools to help you achieve goals that are important to you. These include:
Motivational interviewing: Our contracted therapists understand where you are in the 6 stages of making sustainable, long lasting change. We use a positive, nonjudgmental, client-friendly stance on addiction treatment and help you make changes when you are prepared to make them.
Cognitive behavioral therapy: Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps you examine and change habitual ways of thinking that block your progress.
Dialectical behavior therapy: DBT helps you find the deeper meaning in making important changes in your life, and finding self-acceptance. Based on the practice of mindfulness, DBT can relieve anxiety and depression by helping you relax in the moment.
Relapse prevention training: Many clients mistaken believe that all they need to do is quit. The truth is that reducing or stopping an addictive behavior involves many steps and new habits.
How Individual Addiction Treatment works for you.
You will work with your therapist in private sessions to acquire self-knowledge, insight into addiction, and a stronger sense of inner strength. Sessions usually last about 50 minutes to an hour, once a week for at least 3 months. Most people find that it takes about 3 months to investigate old habits and gradually introduce new ones that work for you.
Modern day substance abuse treatment is based on respect, and working together toward goals that are important to you. You may be surprised that the support and encouragement of your therapist will make you look forward to your sessions!
Older approaches used used confrontation, condemnation and interventions. Our contracted therapists find that a gentler, more collaborative approach is more effective.
The Benefits Of Individualized Treatment
Our contracted therapists like to offer you individualized treatment to help you learn about your unique strengths and challenges, so your therapy becomes a path of discovery rather than something you feel like you should do. Many people have deeply buried guilt or shame that keeps them from getting help. They want to help you rebuild your healthy sense of self-efficacy not “should on yourself.”
In your sessions, you will have
One-on-one time with your counselor, where your needs and wants come first
Sessions focus on you, allowing you to progress faster
Confidentiality and privacy so you can explore vulnerabilities in your own time
Collaborative accountability to goals that are important to you
Taking the step toward creating a better life for yourself takes courage and sometimes desperation. It can be scary to ask for help.
Our contracted therapists want to make the process of getting better easy, gentle and sustainable.
