Treating substance use disorders isn’t always a straightforward path. Very rarely do people struggle with substance use alone — but rather with a constellation of mental health challenges, stressors, and roadblocks. But with the holistic recovery centers in Greenwich at Connecticut Center for Recovery, all your concerns can be addressed with holistic treatment.
What Is Holistic Treatment?
Holistic treatment is a style of mental health treatment that treats the whole person rather than a single problem in isolation. By recognizing the ripple effect that addiction or mental health concerns can have, holistic treatment aims to treat every particular challenge that interferes with the road to recovery.
This means that holistic treatment focuses on more than mere abstinence. The physical, psychological, spiritual, and social aspects of addiction are all addressed, allowing our clients to leave treatment with greater overall health and quality of life.
How Holistic Recovery Improves Addiction Treatment
Addiction can affect nearly every aspect of your life and lead to significant problems on the path to recovery. Substance use disorders can affect:
- Physical Health: This includes withdrawal symptoms, the development or worsening of medical conditions, your overall fitness, and your sleep
- Mental Health: Addiction can often lead to the development of depression, anxiety, or post-traumatic stress or worsen these conditions if they existed before substance misuse
- Spiritual Health: People with spiritual practices often abandon them during addiction and have trouble reconnecting to their spiritual practice
- Social Health: Substance use disorders can drive wedges between meaningful relationships, lead to interpersonal problems, or cause people to feel lonely or isolated
- Daily Functioning: Chronic misuse of addictive substances can lead to people having trouble finding or maintaining employment, learning healthy ways to cope with life’s daily stressors, or building the basic life skills required to be successful
While stopping the use of addictive substances is an essential first step, many of these issues can remain unresolved if not addressed through holistic treatment methods. For many people, just getting sober isn’t enough for a lasting recovery, as the challenges of living life sober can simply be too much to handle without learning ways to manage and overcome them.
Methods Used at Our Holistic Recovery Centers in Greenwich
At Connecticut Center for Recovery, our holistic recovery centers use a wide range of methods to help people break through their ongoing challenges and build worthwhile lives in recovery. Some of the ways we incorporate these methods into treatment include:
Specialized Mental Health Therapies
For people with co-occurring mental health concerns, specialized therapy options can be a valuable tool in reducing your symptoms and helping you along the path to recovery. Some of the specialized therapy options offered include:
- Trauma-focused therapy
- Internal family systems therapy
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
- Expressive arts therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
- Strength-based therapy
- Gestalt therapy
Each of these therapies can assist with specific mental health concerns, helping you achieve a greater sense of overall mental health and well-being.
Family Therapy
Addiction affects far more than a single individual; it can cause lasting rifts in families, marriages, friendships, and relationships. Family therapy is a time-tested method to help address and resolve these challenges, and it can help restore the supportive framework of the family for years to come.
Spiritually Focused Treatment
Connecting with a higher power can be a pivotal component for many people’s recovery.1 Our spiritually focused treatment options help foster that connection and can help you reconnect to a higher sense of purpose and meaning in life.
For many people, this spiritual connection can be fostered through 12-Step support groups and treatment options, while others may benefit from a more individualized approach to rebuilding their spiritual relationship.
Start Treatment at Our Holistic Recovery Centers in Greenwich
Whatever your particular challenges that stand in the way of achieving sobriety, our holistic recovery centers in Greenwich are here to help. To get started with the best treatment options available, contact the Connecticut Center for Recovery team by calling (888) 387-5741 or by filling out our confidential online contact form for more information.
We know how difficult taking the first steps to recovery can be. Addiction can wreak devastation in your everyday life and make the prospect of achieving sobriety seem impossible. But our experience has shown that most people will recover, and you can, too — provided you take the first step of reaching out for help.
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[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4455957/
