An evidence based group for people who love someone struggling with addiction and/or recovery.
Hosted by Abby L Lawrence
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MBA, CSW-PIP, QMHP
Group meets in Sioux Falls, SD 57105
An evidence based group for people who love someone struggling with addiction and/or recovery.
Our IOP provides structured treatment for substance use disorder while allowing individuals to maintain daily responsibilities. Using evidence-based approaches like Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), participants learn skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. The program supports ongoing recovery by addressing triggers, coping strategies, and urges, while integrating relapse-prevention skills to help chart a healthier path forward. With flexible hours, our IOP meets patients where they are, offering effective tools, supportive care, and a clear framework to help individuals reach their goals and stay on track in their recovery journey.
Our therapists specialize in substance use and addiction, depression, anxiety, trauma/PTSD, grief counseling and reintegration after incarceration.
Our IOP provides structured treatment for substance use disorder while allowing individuals to maintain daily responsibilities. Using evidence-based approaches like Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), participants learn skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. The program supports ongoing recovery by addressing triggers, coping strategies, and urges, while integrating relapse-prevention skills to help chart a healthier path forward. With flexible hours, our IOP meets patients where they are, offering effective tools, supportive care, and a clear framework to help individuals reach their goals and stay on track in their recovery journey.
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How do substance and drug recovery or rehabilitation programs work?
In inpatient programs, individuals live in a facility with other clients in recovery; in outpatient programs, individuals reside at home. These facilities are staffed with healthcare professionals including physicians, nurses, psychologists, counselors, and psychotherapists. Staff often also includes people who have recovered themselves, serving as mentors and guides. These programs may use abstinence, harm reduction, detoxification, psychotherapy, and other methods.
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 substance use reduce the amount of drugs they consume. It is not abstinence-based like a 12-step program, but combining harm reduction with psychotherapy proves to be effective for many people.
Are there specific medications for substance and drug use?
There are medications approved to treat substance use disorder—such as buprenorphine, methadone, naltrexone, and acamprosate. These medications do help people cope with substance use as well as avoid the problem of relapse. Naltrexone can help reduce cravings, methadone is an opioid medication used to treat severe pain, and acamprosate may help ease symptoms like poor sleep and anxious feelings.