RECOVERY and support GROUPS


Safe Harbor

Safe Harbor is a weekly support group that helps an individual become ready to make changes. Anyone who enters this group will experience an opportunity to better understand what change they need to make, and how to prepare themselves to make the desired change. This service is designed to support anyone immediately following an assessment; and to avoid any gap between the assessment and starting treatment groups. There are a number of reasons why Safe Harbor is a good first step: for people who may not be immediately ready to step into groups; for people who would otherwise be put on a waiting list when services are filled to maximum capacity; and for people who need case management services that go beyond therapy and include accessing community resources, applying for Medicaid, and addressing transportation, employment, family care and personal health issues.

ART THERAPY/Creative Expression Group

A group for individuals at a time where creativity and expression through art can enhance your personal growth. This group will offer a gentle space to deepen into your insight and self-exploration through guided explorations invoking mind, heart, spirit and body. All artistic ability levels welcome.

Group directives will invite clients to express themselves and be witnessed, become more embodied and to reflect on the meaning of their lives. Make art in a safe and nonjudgmental space with others and discover the beauty of what lies within.

Continuing Care Women's groups

Continuing Care Women's groups are a gracious space that support 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 provide 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 contribute 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.

4 Agreements Group

Wisdom Traditions’ 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.