Dealing with a drug addiction can be extremely frustrating for both you and your family. The disease of addiction in itself is complex and requires a treatment approach that can address the underlying causes of your addiction and help you work through them in order to find recovery. Since every addict has different needs and goals, finding the right treatment program that will best suit those needs can be a challenge. Fortunately, Dream Center of Recovery offers a variety of treatment therapy options that will provide the tools and support you need to fully realize your goal of long-term recovery.
What are the Treatment Therapies Offered at Dream Center for Recovery?
At Dream Center for Recovery, we fully understand that each client is unique and special. By utilizing our wide array of highly effective substance abuse treatment therapies, we are able to create an individualized treatment plan that is based around each client’s needs. Our highly trained addiction specialists work closely with each client to determine their strengths and weaknesses while formulating a comprehensive treatment plan tailored to their specific needs. The following are the treatment therapy options that Dream Center for Recovery offers clients:
Individual Therapy
Through individual therapy, our experienced therapists work one-on-one clients in order to explore and discuss the underlying issues of their addiction to substances as well as help each client develop the critical skills, perspectives, behaviors and attitude needed to realize the dream of a lifelong recovery from drug and alcohol abuse and addiction.
Group Therapy
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n group therapy, clients meet in small groups which are led by a therapist. Together, the group explores the many challenging issues associated with substance abuse and addiction–providing support and feedback to each other regarding their own individual struggles while at the same time receiving valuable feedback and guidance from the therapist. The group therapy environment is a safe and encouraging environment in which newly recovering addict learn to develop new ways of thinking and relating to others while hearing the stories of those who share similar experiences.
Family Therapy
Dream Center for Recovery offers family therapy programming so both the family and the addict can explore their roles in the loved one’s substance abuse and learn ways to effectively communicate and relate to one another in a more healthy and proactive fashion. For a nominal fee, we offer our completely individualized Family Intensive Treatment (FIT) Program that offers the opportunity for family/support system to come to Dream Center for Recovery to experience two full days in their loved ones’ treatment program. With the help of our clinical team, client and family/support system alike are able to gain additional insight into manipulative and enabling behaviors, codependency issues, family dynamics, boundary setting, honesty and relapse prevention strategies. When the whole family heals from the trauma of addiction, they better understand the disease of addiction and provides their loved one with a nurturing and supportive environment to continue their journey of recovery.
Trauma Resolution Therapy
For many addicts, addiction is merely a symptom of a deeper traumatic issue. Grief, abuse, loss, violence and various other traumas can create deep negative feelings. With Trauma Resolution Therapy, therapists are able to help clients address the underlying causes of the substance abuse and help heal those wounds. By working with our clients on their individual traumas, they will be given a solid foundation on which to build a strong, life lasting recovery.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) allows clients to become aware of negative feelings and thoughts and how they impact their ability to grow. Through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, we help our clients learn how to change those feelings by challenging the way they think about them and help them find ways to respond to them in more effective and healthy ways
EMDR is an advanced, clinically proven substance abuse treatment therapy. EMDR uses “dual stimulation” exercises that explore past trauma while simultaneously engaging other parts of the brain through bilateral eye movements, taps or tones. The mind responds by becoming more open to reprogramming so that traumatic memories of the past can be viewed and processed in healthy new ways—which in turn enhances the effectiveness of other substance abuse treatment therapies
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes present and future circumstances and desires over past experiences. The therapist encourages the client to imagine the future that they envision for themselves and then both work together on formulating strategy and plan needed to turn that dream into reality. Solution-focused therapy involves developing a vision for one’s future, and then helping the client determining how to utilize and enhance their skills, resources and abilities in order to attain the desired outcome.
Reality Therapy is focused in the here and now and promotes moving forward with an emphasis on problem solving, rebuilding connections and begin working towards a better future for themselves. In Reality Therapy, the therapist works with the patient to figure out what they want and how their current behaviors are bringing them closer (or farther) from their goals. The client is allowed to explore these feelings in an environment in which they feel safe and respected.
Expressive therapy offers the opportunity for the client to get in touch with their inner self and with higher power and expression for feelings that cannot be easily identified or put into words. While sessions vary in format and structure, typically the therapist will ask clients to answer a question with the project at hand. Clients might be asked to draw a self-portrait, write a poem about the day or choose an instrument that sounds the most like the tone in their head right now. As clients begins to use the tools, the therapist continues to stay on hand, guiding the process.
