What Kinds of Therapy Can You Expect?
Across all our addiction treatment programs, we work alongside patients to determine a therapeutic plan to best meet their needs and allow them to meet their goals in recovery. To make this as effective as possible, it’s important that Lakeview, as an addiction treatment center, offers comprehensive therapeutic options that can be adjusted based on an individual’s progress in treatment. By combining comprehensive care with customized treatment, the team at Lakeview Health is able to design the most effective program possible. Some of the therapy programs we offer includes:
Cognitive-behavior therapy – CBT is frequently used in both individual counseling and group therapy settings because it helps patients learn to identify negative self-image and thoughts to change them for the better.
Dialectical behavior therapy – DBT is very similar to CBT and is another form of talk therapy used in both individual counseling and group sessions. DBT focuses on emotional regulation and learning to understand how and why a person experiences the feelings that they do.
Experimental therapy – In this kind of therapy, individuals participate in activities and events to work through their issues while confronting and overcoming their insecurities.
Family therapy– For many people, the family unit is the core of their lives. This form of therapy helps individuals reconcile with their family while also allowing family members to hold the individual accountable and address their own issues surrounding the patient’s substance use disorder.
Group therapy – With a counselor or therapist serving as a facilitator, in this therapy patients discuss their issues with their peers. It has the advantage of creating support and community which heightens accountability and increases responsibility.
Music therapy – This approach can involve a number of different approaches from simply listening to music to composing it to learning to play an instrument to learning how to record music. This specific form of encourages creativity and expression as a means of releasing and articulating feelings.
Yoga therapy – This is a common holistic approach used to help patients learn to control their emotions and thoughts. At the same time, yoga is a practice that strengthens and restores the body. This mixture of mental and physical treatment makes it a valuable therapy for many.
Trauma-informed therapy – Trauma-informed therapy begins with the idea that in many instances of addiction, trauma is at the center. It therefore focuses on the role that trauma has played in an individual’s life and the degree to which it has fueled and facilitated addiction.
Recreation therapy – In recreational therapy (sometimes referred to as “therapeutic recreation”), counselors use recreation and other activity-based treatment modalities to address the needs of individuals struggling with addiction and the co-occurring mental conditions that so often accompany it.
