We will discuss sorting out your different sources of stress and identifying and prioritizing specific actions that are in your power to take to address them.
We will discuss sorting out your different sources of stress and identifying and prioritizing specific actions that are in your power to take to address them.
This group offers you a safe, nonjudgmental space to explore and change your relationship with drugs or alcohol. Over 10 weeks, you'll gain a deeper understanding of addiction through the biopsychosocial approach and develop practical recovery skills. The group will help you reduce harmful consequences, manage cravings with mindfulness, address difficult emotions like shame and grief, and find healthy alternatives to substance use. You'll also work on improving your relationships, including with yourself, and cultivating a more fulfilling lifestyle that supports your needs and desires. This supportive community will encourage your personal growth as you commit to overcoming addiction.
This group offers you a safe, nonjudgmental space to explore and change your relationship with drugs or alcohol. Over 10 weeks, you'll gain a deeper understanding of addiction through the biopsychosocial approach and develop practical recovery skills. The group will help you reduce harmful consequences, manage cravings with mindfulness, address difficult emotions like shame and grief, and find healthy alternatives to substance use. You'll also work on improving your relationships, including with yourself, and cultivating a more fulfilling lifestyle that supports your needs and desires. This supportive community will encourage your personal growth as you commit to overcoming addiction.
DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING RESONATE WITH YOU? You are noticing that your use has crept into a lot of different parts of your life. You are curious about what life would be like if you focused on the things that mattered in life instead of drinking so much. Come explore why you are drinking so much in a safe place!
DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING RESONATE WITH YOU? You are noticing that your use has crept into a lot of different parts of your life. You are curious about what life would be like if you focused on the things that mattered in life instead of drinking so much. Come explore why you are drinking so much in a safe place!
*ONLINE GROUP*. Join an experiential group to strengthen mindfulness skills, increase awareness of cravings and triggers, reduce impulsive reactions, and develop healthier habits to support your journey in managing problematic substance use! The 8-week group will be online and utilize the evidence based approach Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP; Bowen, Chawla, Grow, & Marlatt 2021). *NEXT ROUND STARTS APRIL 2025*
*ONLINE GROUP*. Join an experiential group to strengthen mindfulness skills, increase awareness of cravings and triggers, reduce impulsive reactions, and develop healthier habits to support your journey in managing problematic substance use! The 8-week group will be online and utilize the evidence based approach Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP; Bowen, Chawla, Grow, & Marlatt 2021). *NEXT ROUND STARTS APRIL 2025*
An intimate, rich process groupof 5-10 members. Designed for individuals who would like to embrace recovery as an opportunity to transform their lives, find meaning and guidance around life challenges facilitated by an experienced therapist. This relapse prevention group can be helpful when the individual in recovery wants to avoid plateau. Group therapy offers bonding, self-understanding, humor, relationship skills, coping skills, accountability. Required continuity of participation, respect of self and others' anonymity under the therapeutic guidance of a knowledgable and experienced Licensed Therapist. Didactic component available.
An intimate, rich process groupof 5-10 members. Designed for individuals who would like to embrace recovery as an opportunity to transform their lives, find meaning and guidance around life challenges facilitated by an experienced therapist. This relapse prevention group can be helpful when the individual in recovery wants to avoid plateau. Group therapy offers bonding, self-understanding, humor, relationship skills, coping skills, accountability. Required continuity of participation, respect of self and others' anonymity under the therapeutic guidance of a knowledgable and experienced Licensed Therapist. Didactic component available.
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Alcohol Use Support Groups
Are there specific medications for alcohol use?
There are oral medications approved to treat alcohol use disorder—such as disulfiram, acamprosate, and naltrexone, which also comes in an injectable form. These medications do help people reduce their drinking as well as avoid the problem of relapse. Naltrexone helps reduce cravings, disulfiram can make a person feel sick when they drink, and acamprosate may help ease symptoms like poor sleep and anxious feelings.
How do alcohol recovery or rehabilitation programs work?
In inpatient programs, individuals live in a facility with other patients in recovery; in outpatient programs,individuals live at home. These facilities are staffed with healthcare professionals including physicians, nurses, psychologists, counselors, and psychotherapists. Staff can also include people who have recovered themselves, serving as mentors and guides. These programs may use abstinence, harm reduction, detoxification, psychotherapy, and other tools for recovery.
How do 12-step programs combined with psychotherapy work?
Members of 12-step programs help each other reach abstinence and work to maintain it. These programs promote complete change in the individual’s emotional, mental, physical, and even spiritual perspectives. Some programs require that new members attend 90 meetings in 90 days. Many people do attend these programs in conjunction with their work in psychotherapy; the combination of therapy along with 12-step can be extremely effective.
How does harm reduction combined with psychotherapy work?
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, harm reduction prevents death, injury, disease, overdose, and substance misuse. People who choose harm reduction for alcohol use reduce the amount of alcohol they intake. It is not abstinence-based like a 12-step program, but combining harm reduction with psychotherapy proves to be effective for many people.