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REBT recognizes that emotion and behavior are controlled by thoughts, and irrational belief structures can define how individuals respond to or perceive life events. This therapy provides an opportunity to identify the irrational beliefs connected to the emotions causing distress or negative behaviours.

The REBT process will teach clients to identify their irrational beliefs, evaluate the legitimacy of those beliefs, and replace them with rational, healthy perspectives. This process promotes the development of healthy coping mechanisms, better emotional balance, and a greater likelihood of coping through healthy coping responses in the case of stress or anxiety.

ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) is an approach to therapy that centers on mindfulness. This means that it helps people develop a positive relationship with their inner thoughts and feelings, rather than fighting against them or trying to get rid of them. With ACT, clients learn to acknowledge difficult feelings and thoughts with an open heart and mind.

By accepting the challenges they face on the inside without allowing those challenges to dictate their behavior, clients can shift their focus to taking action toward the things they value and toward achieving their long-term goals. ACT supports clients to take actions aligned with their values, to foster psychological flexibility and to move forward in their path toward recovery with increased clarity and resilience.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an established, successful approach to the treatment of addiction. CBT studies the interaction between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Using CBT to assist clients in identifying distorted or maladaptive patterns of thinking, we help them understand how their thoughts contribute to emotional distress and maladaptive behaviors.

With practice, clients develop skills and strategies to identify and challenge these negative thought patterns, allowing them to replace them with healthier and more balanced perspectives. CBT has been demonstrated to be one of the most reliable evidence based treatments for substance use disorders; therefore, CBT is considered the gold standard treatment for addiction.

Experiential therapy is an experiential, holistic approach that uses action-oriented techniques to facilitate a greater understanding of emotional conflict, trauma, and ineffective behaviors (those which do not help you move toward your goal). Clients will participate in creative and interactive (person-centered) activities to uncover the insights that may be too difficult to express verbally.

Clients can use these guided experiential activities to process emotions through actions rather than thoughts or words. Experiential therapy provides an effective way for clients to overcome barriers, learn more about themselves, and continue their healing process.

Family therapy, sometimes referred to as family counseling, is a method of assisting those we care about in recognizing, understanding, and working through the effects of addiction or mental illness on the family system. Family therapy promotes communication among spouses, partners, children, and close relatives, and rebuilds trust and creates a healthier support system.

By addressing the relational and emotional effects of substance use, family counseling enables families to work through stress, grief, anger, and any other unresolved issues. With evidence-based techniques and guided conversations, families learn how to support one another during the healing process, how to better support one another in their recovery, and how to provide each other with a stable foundation for long-term health and wellbeing.

Psychoeducation provides patients with a framework through which they can learn about their diagnosis, things like the symptoms they may experience, and the different treatment options available. There is an increase in knowledge and confidence as part of this procedure, and it enables people to engage in their own recovery while decreasing undue stress and worry.

By discussing the impacts of their illness on their thought process and actions with an educator who is experienced in the same field (theory and/or practice), patients are able to see how they can utilize the techniques being taught in therapy to create positive momentum toward their own treatment goals of recovery. Ultimately, psychoeducation’s goal is to promote self-awareness so that individuals can make informed choices regarding their recovery and continue to remain engaged in their overall recovery journey by retaining assurance about the necessary steps that must be taken to achieve lasting wellness.