by westcoastrc | Feb 21, 2020 | Blog, Individual Therapy, Recovery Tools, Treatment Modalities
The Beginning I can recall sitting in my therapist’s office and having her tell me to “practice self-compassion”. I thought to myself, “yeah sure, I eat healthily and exercise.” But no matter what I did or didn’t do, this was my weekly homework assignment....
by westcoastrc | Oct 9, 2017 | Gender-Responsive Programming, Individual Therapy, Transitional Living
Co-Occurring Disorders May be Overcome by Familiar Treatment Modalities What was formerly known as dual diagnosis is now generally referred to as co-occurring disorder.?A co-occurring disorder is not a specific illness unto itself. Instead, it refers?to the...
by westcoastrc | Sep 24, 2017 | Blog, Individual Therapy, Meditation, Recovery Tools
Mindful on the Go: Meditation Techniques for Today?s Modern Lifestyles It?s no secret that the pace of modern life is speeding up. Recent anthropological studies have concluded that, in many pre-agrarian societies, people worked as little as four hours per day, and...
by westcoastrc | Sep 18, 2017 | Blog, Individual Therapy, Recovery Tools, Transitional Living
A Place for Everyone: Individual Therapy in Holistic Addiction Recovery Traditional environments for addiction treatment, such as 12-step programs and intensive inpatient therapy, are historically notorious for having high relapse rates. Within such settings,...
