The Course in Treatment

The course in treatment represents the specific plan that has been designed in collaboration with the client to determine the length, scope and depth of the intensive in a framework that keeps it in line with the budget the client has selected.  The following treatment courses represent examples of intensives that we have developed for couples, individuals and families.  Any resemblance to people that you might know is clearly coincidental because the profiles below reflect a composite of many different cases.

Couples Intensives

We have worked alongside couples who are:

• Couples considering help in constructing a course in treatment that explored the sources of familial abuse, oppression and emotional neglect that would have threatened the enduring bond they longed for had they failed to develop a personalized plan from mitigating the threats they would face.
• Romantic partners, struggling with the impact of traumatic childhood sexual abuse, developed strategic tools to bring relief from the PTSD-like symptoms that were awakened by the vulnerability of their union in a way that set the foundation for an emotional bond that was sufficiently strong enough to reduce current and future threats to their partnership.
• Victims of marital betrayal associated with sexual addiction have learned to view each other as a source of mutual support and accountability as they share the responsibility for healing their traumatic injuries as they moved through a mutually designed disclosure process.
• Marital partners attempting to crawl out from beneath the wreckage of Alcoholism and other addictive disorders learned how to share the same “side of the street” which enhanced each other’s recovery efforts, enabling them to obtain measurable traction.
• Were “engaged to be divorced” but were willing to find the tools necessary to build emotional intimacy and reunite the great divide that had grown in their marriage as a result of enduring the deep conflict of being raised in parental addiction.
• Couples recovering from an addictive disorder who came looking for a referee and an endorsement for divorce learned how to walk side by side in the recovery process and remain united while awaiting the miracle.
• Parenting challenges had left partners adrift in bitterness and resentment and their course in treatment lead them back to the lost romance that they had been afraid of hoping for.

Individual Intensives

We have worked alongside individuals who are:

• The adult children of alcoholics who have been haunted by the fear of becoming just like their parental nemesis have shared in the development of a course for evading the self-fulfilling prophecy that would aid in the construction of a solid foundation for their own recovery.
• Addicts struggling with the challenges of navigating a course to sustained abstinence from his or her addictive disorder have discovered the sober waypoints that would avoid relapse into active addiction.
• Those who had spent years looking for a voice to keep from being overrun by the emotional bullies in their lives have shared in the design and implementation of a plan for to promote the establishment and maintenance internal and external boundaries.
• Individuals who find the gauntlet of social and emotional challenges in early addiction unbearable, worked to implement a course of treatment that would develop a firm foundation from which to make the character changes that would empower them to develop deep roots in his or her respective fellowships.
• Sober addicts struggling to get the desired “promises” from completing Steps Four through Nine have supported in a task-oriented model designed to preventing the end user from becoming bogged down in emotional quicksand.
• Individuals struggling with anxiety and obsession have found relief in the design and implementation of a plan to address the historical antecedents and present threats to emotional safety.

Family Intensives

We have worked alongside family members who are:

• Because of their love for an un-surrendered addict, have found an intervention plan that would enable them to construct a team to successfully intervene on their loved one adrift in the storm of addiction after following the model they would be proposing to the addict.
• As siblings, have worked together to identify and understand the developmental sources of maladaptive coping strategies that served only to promote further isolation in their relationships and a diminished capacity for coping with discomfort.
• Couples have worked to provide their minor children with a model for benefiting from the recovery gains that they have made individually and collectively.

If you are dissatisfied with your rate of progress or struggling to maintain forward momentum, consider a therapeutic intensive that will help to create an individualized framework for getting traction and achieving change.