- We provide a much more individualized level of service, choosing groups, family work or type of therapy or medication choices based on a thorough evaluation and discussion with you about what makes sense and what you can do right now.
- We are very skilled at incorporating the family and close supports, knowing they make all the difference.
- Our clinicians have far more training – both prior to coming and during their employment – than typical for addictions specialists.
- We are harm reduction oriented rather than abstinent insistent. Thus, we pitch our intervention to your stage of change, emotional readiness, and goals. This is very flexible, as opposed to one-fits-all.
- We are much more collaborative than other teams so that treatment is rapidly responding to any changes or needs. We meet daily in rounds to discuss patients.
- We work both on internal resilience and external context. Internal resilience can be improved by various psychotherapies. But the external situation – family, friends, work, budgeting, schoolwork, etc. profoundly influence outcome.
- We address your stress vulnerability from all angles so we help you with exercise, nutrition, sleep, and offer mindfulness meditation. Our help may be best delivered ‘in the field’ eg at a gym or grocery store.
- Our doctors are very very good – at expert psychopharmacology, addictions sub-specialty medicines and general medical issues that impact stress resilience.
- We aim to transform, not just stabilize things. This means working with experiential and emotionally focused models rather than only cognitive or behavioral models. This provides long-term personality change and a dramatically reduced risk of relapse.
- We have a cute dog.