Individual & group addiction counseling
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Healing the Underlying Factors of Addiction Individual and Group Counseling Faith-Based Addiction Recovery Christian Addiction Rehabilitation | Counseling for drug and alcohol addiction
Key Elements of Our Counseling Program Types of Counseling differ according to the needs of the client: Remedial Counseling encourages change that facilitates correction and adaptation in situations that have become disruptive, stressful and unsatisfactory. This involves helping people acknowledge the poor choices they have made in the past, along with the undesirable outcomes that have resulted from these choices. It focuses on providing the skills and the motivation to make better choices in the future. Preventaive Counseling helps prepare people for predictable life events, such as a transition from a recovery facility to a new way of living life on a day-to-day basis without resorting to the crutch that was offered through their “drug of choice.” Individual Counseling focuses on identifying and building up inherent strengths; while recognizing, accepting and correcting weaknesses. As this process progresses, the “true self” is revealed and the “false self” is dismantled. Areas of focus include emotion regulation, behavior modification, and cognitive functioning, including beliefs, thoughts, attitudes and rules about life.Family or Marital Counseling provides an opportunity to address the most significant relationships in a person’s life. It gives an opportunity to practice establishing healthy intimacy through a capacity to bond with, and trust, others. Family/marital counseling offers a safe space to practice relating to significant others from the true self that is emerging through recovery education and individual counseling. Participants learn to appreciate and grow through their differences as they practice effectively using Critical Life Skills such as communication, decision making, problem solving and conflict resolution.
Group Counseling has the added dimension of group dynamics, providing a social setting in which residents can become mindful of, and work toward improving important skills. These include patterns of connecting with others, learning to communicate effectively, make healthy decisions, solving problems and resolving conflicts in a group setting. Group counseling also reveals how individuals fit into a social order, including the roles they assume, the beliefs and expectations they have, and their ability to conform to the social order, as well as their affinity for being oriented toward completing tasks, tending others and addressing group well-being, or remaining self-focused. Group counseling provides an opportunity to form a cohesive whole and work with others to achieve goals that are beneficial to each person and the group.
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Our objective is to provide a variety of counseling methods and settings in order to offer different opportunities to heal, learn, and grow. Each person has particular strengths and weaknesses that need to be identified and addressed. Certain issues and characteristics lend themselves to individual counseling, while others are better served through family or group counseling. Our thorough assessment process is designed to reveal the needs of each resident, and ensure that those needs are met by their treatment plan. Exposing residents to different types of counseling and different settings helps them acknowledge their own needs and become motivated to enhance their thoughts and ways.
Enhancement Counseling keeps people open to growing in new and deeper levels of understanding, appreciation, and wisdom. Our focus on spiritual growth helps people understand that addiction recovery is not the ultimate goal and end of their journey. Instead, addiction recovery is the beginning of a new leg of their journey, moving toward optimum health and wellness.St. Joseph Institute | 134 Jacobs Way | Port Matilda, Pennsylvania 16870