Types of Therapy: How Specialized Programs Can Help You Recover
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Types of Therapy
There are a variety of therapeutic techniques that can help you manage your issues and achieve lasting recovery and wellness. At our treatment center, we offer a full continuum of therapies to meet YOUR unique needs, addressing both psychological and physiological aspects of mental illness to set you up for lasting success.
Effective treatment elements include a range of therapies, such as:
CBT helps you modify your dysfunctional thought patterns, beliefs, and behaviors that lead to substance abuse. You can learn coping skills and practice applying them to real-world scenarios. CBT also identifies addiction triggers and develops strategies to avoid or manage them.
Some examples of how CBT helps:
- Identifying distorted thinking patterns that justify addictive behaviors (like denial or catastrophizing) and replacing them with realistic thoughts
- Building awareness of cravings and tools to overcome them
- Learning to tolerate distress or uncomfortable emotions without using drugs or alcohol
- Developing healthy social support systems and limit-setting skills
- Fostering motivation and self-efficacy to make positive changes
DBT combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices. You can learn distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness.
DBT can help you:
- Tolerate cravings or emotional distress without reacting self-destructively
- Develop healthy coping outlets like journaling, exercise, meditating, etc.
- Improve relationships through assertive (not aggressive) communication
- Reality test urges us to use and weigh short-term effects vs. long-term consequences
- Practice self-validation and change self-judgmental inner dialogue
Benefits of EMDR include:
- Rapidly processing past traumas that are triggering substance abuse
- Reducing intense emotions, nightmares, and flashbacks
- Improving self-esteem and trust
- Enhancing coping skills and resilience
- Decreasing urges to self-medicate painful memories
Examples include art, music, or dance therapy, psychodrama, wilderness programs, yoga, meditation, equine therapy, gardening, adventure therapy, and more.
Benefits of experiential therapy include:
- Expressing emotions in a healthy creative outlet
- Building confidence and self-discovery
- Improving focus and mental clarity
- Reducing anxiety, depression, and stress
- Developing healthy coping mechanisms
- Fostering insight into behaviors and relationships
- Cultivating self-reflection through activities like journaling
A trauma-informed approach creates a safe, compassionate environment for healing.
Our trauma-informed therapies help you:
- Build safety, trust, and compassionate support
- Develop autonomy, empowerment, and coping skills
- Process traumatic memories and emotions
- Challenge internal beliefs shaped by trauma
- Integrate experiences into a coherent life narrative
- Prevent retraumatization during treatment
Some benefits of individual therapy include:
- Establishing a trusting therapeutic relationship
- Exploring how addiction is related to one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
- Building self-esteem, confidence, and motivation
- Learning to cope with stress, emotions, and relationships
- Customizing treatment goals and techniques
- Troubleshooting problems and preventing relapse
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Support groups are also very beneficial for maintaining sobriety after completing treatment. Accountability and camaraderie help prevent relapse.
Group therapy provides:
- Shared experiences that reduce feelings of isolation
- Positive peer pressure to stay sober and engage in treatment
- Real-life practice communicating, listening, and resolving conflicts
- A community of understanding that builds confidence
- Exposure to diverse viewpoints and feedback
- Motivation through celebrating individual and group successes
Family counseling helps you:
- Restore love, repair betrayals of trust
- Establish healthy boundaries and improve family functioning
- Enhance communication and conflict resolution skills
- Address any family member's mental health needs
- Support and strengthen family recovery together
- Learn relapse prevention strategies
MI employs strategies like:
- Expressing empathy and listening reflectively
- Developing discrepancy between goals and continued substance use
- Rolling with resistance to avoid arguing for change
- Building self-efficacy and confidence
- Reinforcing personal reasons and desire for change
- Planning practical action steps toward recovery
Common MAT medications include:
- Methadone: For treating opioid addiction
- Buprenorphine: Also used for opioid addiction
- Naltrexone: Blocks opioid receptors and alcohol cravings
- Acamprosate: Reduces alcohol cravings and withdrawal
- Disulfiram: Causes an adverse reaction if alcohol is consumed
- Naltrexone: Treats alcohol and opioid dependence
During TMS therapy, an electromagnetic coil is placed near your forehead to deliver focused magnetic pulses. This painlessly activates the regions of your brain involved in mood, addiction, reward, and cognitive control.
Treatments are typically 5 days a week for 4-6 weeks. Our providers may recommend TMS alone or in combination with psychotherapy and medications.
Benefits of TMS include:
- Rapidly reduces depression, anxiety, and cravings
- Requires no sedation - clients are awake and alert
- Enhances motivation, energy, and clarity
- Provides lasting remission when combined with therapy
- Well tolerated with minimal side effects
- Allows rapid return to normal activities
Many people struggling with addiction also have co-occurring mental health disorders like depression, anxiety, PTSD, or bipolar disorder. This requires integrated treatment that addresses both conditions at the same time. Treating just one issue while ignoring the other reduces effectiveness.
Dual diagnosis treatment provides psychiatric care, counseling, and medications to simultaneously stabilize both disorders.Benefits of our dual diagnosis program include:
- Licensed mental health professionals
- Individualized treatment planning
- Medication evaluation and management
- Group therapy for dual disorders
- Coping skills for psychiatric symptoms
- Relapse prevention for both issues
- Aftercare planning for ongoing recovery
Why Professional Treatment Is Essential
There’s one more thing drug addiction and mental disorders have in common: Left untreated, they can be fatal. Whether it’s through overdose or self-harm, these disorders will slowly strangle your life until nothing’s left.
Fortunately, the right therapies can help you or your loved one break free from addiction and reclaim a joyful, purpose-filled life. Our experienced team will design a customized treatment plan using evidence-based therapies tailored to your needs.
With an individualized treatment plan tailored to your situation, you have the tools and support needed to stop self-destructive cycles. Our proven therapies augment your natural inner strength and resilience. You can reclaim a healthy, fulfilling life in recovery.
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
We treat all types of substance addictions, including alcohol, opioids, cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy, methamphetamine, prescription medications, and more. We also treat process addictions like gambling.
The Edge doesn’t set timelines for our programs - they last as long as they need to. The appropriate duration depends on your unique needs and response to treatment.
Yes, we provide integrated dual-diagnosis treatment for addiction plus mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, PTSD, and others. Our clinical team is highly experienced in this area.
The day involves group therapy, individual counseling, psychoeducation classes, experiential therapies, 12-step work, recreational activities, community meetings, wellness programming, and medical check-ins.
We accept most major insurance plans. Please call us to verify your specific coverage. We also work with many out-of-network plans and private pay options.
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