Our Therapy Integrates:
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy helps teach the individual to recognize and stop negative patterns of thinking and behavior. It brings to the forefront the awareness of triggers, situations, and feelings that lead them to substance use so they can identify and avoid them in the future or react to them differently when they experience them.
MI (Motivational Interviewing)
Motivational Interviewing is a collaboration between the therapist and the patient. This helps the patient discover their own motivation to then change their behavior. However, many times, it is not wanting to get away from the consequences of substance use that motivates people to stay well – it’s helping them understand what they want to move toward and what excites them about recovery that helps them stay well. For example, motivational Interviewing helps the patient understand they have the power to make the change themselves by replacing negative habits with new, healthy ones.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
EMDR is a new, nontraditional type of psychotherapy at our New Jersey treatment center that has proven effective particularly for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Also, EMDR can reduce anxiety and allow patients to take better control of their disturbing thoughts. This approach is particularly useful for people who have difficulty talking about the trauma they’ve experienced. Through EMDR therapy (an eight-phase treatment), patients are able to reprocess traumatic information until it is no longer psychologically disruptive.
DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy utilizes a cognitive-behavioral approach and also emphasizes the psychosocial aspects of treatment. DBT helps the patient identify their strengths to then allow the patient to feel better about themselves and their life.
DBT uses four different core principles to create new behavioral skills:
- Mindfulness
- Distress Tolerance: how to tolerate pain in difficult situations, not change it
- Interpersonal Effectiveness: how to ask for what you want and say no while maintaining self-respect and relationships with others
- Emotion Regulation: how to change emotions that you can change and manage those you cannot
ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
ACT helps the patient accept the difficulties that come with life. It is a form of mindfulness-based therapy with the theory that greater well-being can be reached by overcoming negative thoughts as well as feelings.
Accept your reactions and be present
Choose a valued direction
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However, ACT doesn’t attempt to directly change or stop unwanted thoughts or feelings. Instead, it encourages the patient to develop a new and compassionate relationship with those experiences. ACT focuses on mindfulness and values, so the patient can cope with difficult thoughts or emotions of their everyday life. It also helps recognize and reconnect with positive core values rather than turning to drugs or alcohol to deal with life.
At Victory Bay, our substance abuse treatment programs integrates evidence-based practices in our treatment of substance use because we want to give patients the best chance of success to be well.
It’s never too late to begin treatment and never too soon to start. If you have questions concerning Substance Use Treatment, then call Victory Bay Recovery Center at 855.259.1624. We can help today.
