Residential and outpatient rehab programs have counseling services available for people with substance abuse disorders, and thanks to years of research and progress, there are now more techniques than ever to battle these problems. There’s no one size fits all technique for tackling addiction, but it’s safe to say that professionals know more now than ever about how to successfully treat substance abuse problems. There’s much debate on the best counseling techniques for addiction issues in Fort Myers.
Thanks to the wealth of approaches counselors can use in today’s world, each of these techniques have their value to clients. What works for one client won’t work for another, and vice versa. It’s a tremendous advantage to counselors now to have so many techniques at their disposal in the fight against substance abuse and mental health disorders.
Treatment Settings
Thanks to more awareness about substance abuse disorders, professionals can now treat them in a variety of settings. Some substance abuse problems are treated in short-term detoxes that provide a medical setting. Others will be a short-term detox setting with a more natural approach to combating withdrawal symptoms. Long-term detoxes are usually about 30, 60, or 90 days, and they border on residential treatments. Thanks to sober living services, now clients have the choice of living sober in a sober community for a much longer period of time (as much as a year or two).
With such a diverse variety of treatment settings, including outpatient counseling and intensive outpatient programs, it’s no wonder that more people than ever before are finding themselves willing to get the help that they know they need. Sometimes it’s just a matter of picking out which service works best for you. There are people who have jobs who respond to and need outpatient therapy, while others will need to seek help in an inpatient detox and/or residential treatment environment. The great news is that there are so many new techniques available today.
Best Counseling Techniques
What works for mental illnesses does not always work with substance abuse therapy, but professionals have found a great deal of success using commonly used therapy techniques with substance abuse patients as well. As you’re getting help in an inpatient facility or residential treatment home, they may use some of these techniques to help you, or you can see if they’re available in your outpatient treatment setting. A few of these techniques include:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
- Group Sessions
Each of these approaches adds something to the client’s toolbox and ability to fight off relapse and other substance abuse related discomfort. Some of the approaches are taught one on one by the therapist while other techniques, such as a group therapy session, have proven helpful to more social people in recovery who enjoy the peer support they get from group meetings. Every person struggling with a substance abuse problem may benefit from one, some, or all of these techniques. Treatment is a highly personal experience and will results will vary for every client.
Understand the Techniques
No client has to know a lot about cognitive behavioral therapy to truly benefit from it. It’s the counselor who leads you through the techniques you need to learn in order to enjoy your sobriety more. No one approach alone is going to help every single client. Counselors interview and speak with clients at length in order to discover the best techniques for each specific situation. It’s very personalized and comfortable for the client. One person may respond well to cognitive behavioral therapy where you use coping strategies to deal with situations that trigger you to use, and another client might respond better to dialectical behavior therapy, where you learn to regulate emotions better.
Each technique has helped someone, somewhere recover from the awful things that addiction and alcoholism bring into their life. More techniques are studied and developed every year, as the research allows experts to find still more ways to help people who struggle with addiction and alcoholism. One of these techniques mentioned here may help you, or there may be dozens more that are available to you and that you will discover in the course of individual counseling. There are so many ways to get help in today’s world.
If you’re ready to get help and discover the best counseling techniques for you, just call us today at 844-639-8371.