Our Dynamic Therapeutic Methods and Activities

Since one size does not fit all, we believe in providing a diverse range of therapeutic methods to support comprehensive healing and empowerment. Our integrative treatment program includes:

Therapies

• Individual Therapy: HSR offers 2-3 individual sessions a week with master-level clinicians, tailored to address each client’s unique needs and challenges.
• Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT): All of our Master level trained and licensed clinicians are trained in ETT.  ETT is a body-oriented psychotherapy that can rapidly access emotions lodged in the physical symptoms and produce new awareness and resolution of symptoms within minutes; it can facilitate the resolution of trauma; and it has the capacity to activate states of extreme wellbeing that are otherwise associated with those produced by substances or other addictive patterns. It also provides feedback to clients and helps them identify when they are beginning to dissociate and disconnect from their bodies. To learn more about this powerful modality visit ETT.
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): EMDR is an evidence-based psychotherapy that helps clients process and resolve traumatic memories and distressing experiences. By using bilateral stimulation techniques, EMDR enables clients to reprocess painful memories in a safe therapeutic setting, reducing the emotional charge associated with trauma and supporting lasting recovery.
• Process Groups: The goal of our process groups is to build connections and gain insights through shared experiences in a supportive group setting with peers. HSR includes small groups, gender-specific groups, and recovery-based process groups.
• Cognitive Therapy: Cognitive therapy groups are very important in recognizing and reframing negative self-talk, cognitive distortions, relapse prevention, setting healthy boundaries, unhealthy feelings, and identifying unhealthy coping mechanisms.
• Somatic Processing Groups: Since HSR’s programming is geared towards helping clients connect to their bodies, many of our groups are focused on identifying and releasing emotions. Research has shown that addressing the physical and psychological effects of suppressed feelings and/or trauma can restore a sense of balance and safety, both mentally and physically. Some of our favorite somatic experience groups are the following:
• Psychodrama: Psychodrama engages in role-playing scenarios to explore emotional experiences, increase personal awareness, and develop healthier coping mechanisms.
• Trauma Education: This is an educational class led by our senior staff and teaches curriculum from our Integrated Wellness Model™. This class addresses the commonalities seen in all addictions (substance and process), mental health diagnoses, and trauma-related symptomology. The group objective is to identify the underlying issues that drive all compulsive, self-defeating and addictive patterns, thus reducing future “addiction substitution” and/or mental health symptoms and diagnoses.
• Art therapy:  Art Therapy uses creative mediums to express emotions that are often difficult to articulate. Art therapy also allows clients to practice affect regulation and desensitization to overwhelming emotions in a safe and grounded manner.
• Mind/Body Groups: These groups utilize focused mindfulness techniques, breath work, music, frequencies and sound to process unresolved emotions and trauma and promote emotional healing.
• Feelings in Training: FIT is an experiential modality that facilitates the active, physical release of emotions in real time. It is a form of emotional desensitization and teaches emotional mastery over the painful feelings that drive addictive behaviors.  FIT also teaches clients to learn how to regulate and balance their emotions so that they do not OVER or UNDER respond in their emotional expression. This group is ideal for people who struggle with dysregulated anger, depression, mania, anhedonia, bipolar expression, emotional numbness etc.
• Wellness approaches: Our wellness approaches incorporate activities such as yoga, meditation, Reike, and Tai Chi to wake up the body and facilitate mind-body reconnection.
• L.I.T.: “Leaders in Training” offers a combination of personal development assessments that help clients identify their strengths, communication style, and personality, as well as a specialized group that applies what they learn to create a customized personal mission statement. The goal of this group is to assist clients in identifying and exploring their purpose, as well as creating plans of action to achieve it. We believe that identifying and living a purposeful life is vital to self-fulfillment and sustained recovery.
• Recovery groups: Since HSR recognizes that people have different personalities, past experiences, and personal needs, we also believe that a one-size-fits-all recovery program does not work for everyone. That is why we offer a variety of recovery programs and groups for our clients to explore and find the one that best fits their needs. We offer AA, NA, SMART Recovery, Refuge Recovery, Celebrate Recovery, and ACA.