CONTINUING CARE Program
The intention for Wisdom’s Continuing Care Program is to provide services for those patients who have completed their initial course of treatment and that have achieved consistent stability in their recovery. This program’s purpose is to meet the long-term needs of those who have opted to engage in continuing care services, fueled by a desire to deepen their understanding of recovery, strengthen their connection to a recovery community, and explore a variety of paths of recovery, that each will find their own way to a life of empowered connection to self, spirit, and community. Continuing care is provided through group and individual counseling.
“Stage I is about arresting the addiction. Stage II™ Recovery is about understanding the triggers and imprinting that left people vulnerable in the face of substitutes. Whether the process of trying those substitutes is called codependency, shame-based living, adult child syndrome or any other label, Stage II™ Recovery answers are seldom found in Stage I recovery groups, but there can be no Stage II if Stage I has not been won. Recovery does not end with sobriety.”
4 Agreements Group
Wisdom Tradition's continuing care group on The Four Agreements is based on the four principles given by Don Miguel Ruiz in his book of the same name. This 12-week group reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. It then offers a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
Gorski model of relapse prevention
This 12-week group based on the Gorski model of relapse prevention is a helpful tool when addressing relapse and relapse prevention plans with clients. The Gorski model proposes that people often have many early warning signs that precede a relapse. Many people in addiction are not able to recognize these early warning signs as they are automatic and unconscious. This model allows individuals to identify and address early warning signs of relapse through the following nine steps: stabilization, assessment, relapse education, identifying warning signs, managing warning signs, recovery planning, inventory training, family involvement, and follow up. Each step allows the client to develop more skills and self-awareness in order to help prevent relapse from occurring in the future.
Gender Specific Recovery Groups/12 Step Alternatives
Evidenced based best practices in substance use disorder treatment suggest that there is therapeutic value in gender specific group therapy. Wisdom Traditions provides Continuing Care Group Therapy that is gender specific.
We recognize that traditional 12 step recovery does not meet the needs of everyone. Or, sometimes, people who are well steeped in the 12-step model find themselves seeking more as an addendum to, rather than a substitute for traditional westernized spiritual paths.
This continuing care group explores some existing, but nontraditional adjuncts to recovery. We will explore the intersection between Buddhist principles and 12-step recovery as well as other alternatives to the 12-step model of recovery. We will explore three different approaches to Buddhist recovery practices and models.
This group is appropriate for both recovery program and mental health services patients. Consistent with Wisdom philosophy that says, “we are all in recovery from something,” this group utilizes mindfulness based cognitive interventions to manage stress, conflict, and our relationships to those around us. All you need is an open mind and a willingness to learn.
Continuing Care Women's groups
Continuing Care Women's groups are a gracious space that supports the unique challenges facing women in recovery. Together, women have the opportunity to form bonds of trust and courage, respect and hope and learn from each other while making powerful discoveries about their emotional, physical and spiritual identities. At Wisdom Traditions Counseling, we honor the sacred role of women and promote a continuous experience of strengthening our recovery tools through the exploration of engaging our emotional intelligence, cultivating self-care, healing the wounds in our personal relationships, firing up our creative feminine energies, and reclaiming joy, pleasure and purpose in our lives.
Continuing Care men's groups
Continuing Care Men's groups provides ongoing exploration of the opportunities for each man to become a positive force in their families and communities. Group members report the Men’s groups contributes to their psychological, emotional and spiritual health by assisting them in finding the lost, tired or forgotten parts of themselves. Joining the Men's group gives men an ability to re-establish a sense of community, allowing them to create a living definition of recovery that includes camaraderie and fun. Through enhancing the strength, focus and clarity of future goals and solutions, members have found unlimited potential for productivity, increased capacity for care and compassion and inherent strength and honor.
Continuing Care Coordinator
I was honored to be asked to facilitate the Continuing Care Program. As a person in long-term recovery, I recognize the need to keep people engaged in an ongoing process of growth and discovery. Complacency is the enemy of recovery. Knowledge is power. Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Being asked to facilitate this process for individuals who are seeking lifelong recovery and healing is an honor. Getting the opportunity to walk beside people as they embark on the journey of self-discovery is a gift.
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