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    Does Mental Health Counseling Work?

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    You’ve likely heard of mental health counseling, but might not be sure of what it entails or whether it actually works. Mental health counseling is [...]

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    What Happens During Recreational Therapy?

    684 words|3.4 min read|

    What is the definition of recreational therapy? Recreational therapy, or therapeutic recreation, is a systematic therapy technique that addresses physical and mental health challenges through [...]

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    What Can I Expect from Cocaine Addiction Treatment?

    787 words|3.9 min read|

    Making the active decision to undergo cocaine addiction treatment is a courageous commitment that deserves respect. Not only is addiction a difficult disease to overcome; [...]

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    How Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Can Help You to Overcome Addiction

    774 words|3.9 min read|

    You may have noticed in any therapy session that all treatment operates under certain frameworks. Certain organizations and individual counselors and therapists use evidence-based theories [...]

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    Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Mindful, Non-Judgemental Approach to Therapy

    737 words|3.7 min read|

    When a person experiences a negative, traumatic or hurtful event, the gut reaction is to put up an emotional buffer, in order to limit the [...]

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    How BioSound Healing Therapy Helps Heal Negative Emotions

    848 words|4.2 min read|

    A holistic approach to therapy includes healing of the whole person - body, mind and spirit. As research continues to emerge stressing the importance of [...]

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    Art Therapy: Non-Verbal Treatment at its Best

    1015 words|5.1 min read|

    If you’ve hit a plateau in conventional therapy or you’re ready for the benefits of a strong alternative treatment method, or are just looking to [...]

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    6 Tips to Meal Plan Like a Pro

    890 words|4.5 min read|

    The wide and delicious world of meal planning looks overwhelming from the outside. It seems to require an organized personality and a culinary degree to [...]

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    What is Nature Therapy?

    885 words|4.4 min read|

    Close your eyes and picture yourself sitting in the woods near a babbling brook, scaling a mountain or enjoying the warm sand under your feet [...]

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    17 Addiction Journal Prompts that Encourage Recovery & Sobriety

    853 words|4.3 min read|

    There has been a vast movement toward mindfulness in our current culture, especially with the onset of a pandemic. People around the world are looking [...]

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    How Will COVID-19 Affect My Rehab?

    801 words|4 min read|

    As if working to achieve sobriety isn’t enough of a challenge, tack on a pandemic. Rehab in itself is a major life change, and although [...]

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    When Is Outpatient Drug Rehab the Best Choice?

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    Outpatient drug and alcohol rehab enables you to work on recovery while still being part of the outside world. If you’ve attended inpatient addiction treatment, where you [...]

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    Using Equine Therapy for Healing

    384 words|1.9 min read|

    For those with mental health problems, addiction issues and behavioral problems, equine therapy for healing is improving the effectiveness of other forms of treatment and giving sufferers [...]

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    What Is a Treatment Plan and Why Is It Important For Recovery?

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    There is no single path to recovery and an effective strategy for one client may be ineffective for another. For this reason, it is the [...]

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    Trauma-Informed Treatment: Research-Based Interventions

    1080 words|5.4 min read|

    This is part three of the three-part series, Trauma-Informed Addiction Treatment and Research-Based Interventions. Read part two, The Relationship Between Trauma and Substance Abuse In the past [...]

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    A Quick Overview of Residential Treatment Centers

    894 words|4.5 min read|

    Nowadays, many people seek the knowledgeable guidance of a counselor or therapist to help them navigate through the complicated thoughts, feelings and emotions we face [...]