Individual Counseling
About this service
During individual, couple or family counseling you will experience the personal attention and support of a professional counselor who is entirely focused on your concerns. Counseling will help you identify and express feelings about past experiences, explore ways to manage and resolve stress, family or relationship issues, anxiety, sadness or frustration. Many people report that individual or family counseling is beneficial to them because they can speak privately in a safe and confidential environment about personal concerns.
How to make an appointment
The first appointment is referred to as an intake session that has several functions. One function of the intake is to clarify what sort of concern is bringing you to Jupiter Counseling. It is also an opportunity for us to get a general sense of who you are and what your significant life experiences have been. During this appointment the professional counselor will be able to assess the optimal service for you depending on the nature of your concerns.
Family Programs
Addiction is a disease that affects the entire family. At Transformations we are committed to the inclusion of family as an integral part of every clients’ treatment plan. Appointments may be scheduled for family therapy or family self-help support groups.
The Family Support group is designed to define processes like co-dependency and enabling, and develop new coping strategies. “Family” includes, but is not limited to, parents, siblings, children ages 14 and older, and close friends, significant others, or anyone who may be central to enhance and participate in the client’s treatment and recovery process.
Family Meetings
The primary therapist, with approval, will schedule family meetings or telephone conferences for those families that are out-of-state. These meetings are scheduled upon admission and frequency of contact will be determined on an individual basis depending on the client’s need.
Transformations at Jupiter Counseling
Transformations at Jupiter Counseling offers an intensive outpatient program for substance abuse disorders, as well as, dual diagnosis. Dual Diagnosis addresses the mood disorder and substance abuse disorder. Transformations educates clients/families on the process of recovery which is reflected through your spiritual, emotional and physical well-being.
Transformations program is an intensive outpatient program which allows an individual to continue at work while getting stronger through treatment. Transformation offers day and evening programs which ever works for your new healthy life style. Clients are provided individual counseling during treatment in the intensive outpatient program.
Transformations believes in the family system and the need for strong support and education through the clients recovery process. Changing the family dance of denial and increasing their understanding and awareness about the illness. We offer family and individual counseling.
Intensive Outpatient Groups
Transformations Intensive Outpatient Program offers a Women’s Group, Men’s Group, and a Coed Group. Intensive Outpatient Group consists of 3 days a week, 3 hours per session.
Relapse Prevention
It is our belief, and the foundational component of our treatment program, that relapse prevention must provide and incorporate new strategies for the client, in the future, to be able to effectively deal with the entire potential multitude of symptoms, disorders, addictions and behaviors that in the past have combined to wreak havoc in the client’s life. Introduction to Relapse Prevention We define Relapse Prevention as a strategy to train alcohol and other abusers to cope more effectively and to overcome the stressors or triggers in their environments related to alcoholism and drug addiction that may cause relapse to build into chemical dependency.
Drug addiction and alcoholism are diseases that, when left untreated or poorly treated, are typified by chronic relapse. The prevention of relapse is a critical part of any effective treatment for drug and abuse.
Understanding Relapse
In order to understand the fundamentals behind Relapse Prevention , one must first understand relapse itself. In the medical community, a relapse is a regression after a period of partial recovery from an illness. In addiction treatment drug treatment Relapse may easily be defined as returning to a specific behavior after a period of abstinence (stopping) from that particular behavior, that is, drug abuse.
A relapse does not just happen by itself. There are outside influences and contributing factors, and one can find evidence and warning signs that an individual might be in danger of returning to the destructive patterns of substance abuse.
There is one accepted fact about relapse: Relapse does not come on suddenly and without warning, it is a process over time.
Relapse Prevention
There are many principals that may be incorporated into a relapse prevention plan. The most important thing for an individual suffering from addiction is that relapse is inevitable if one takes no steps to prevent it.
Preventing Relapse
Again, drug addiction is a chronic disease , and as with any chronic disease, there is the possibility of relapse. Alcohol and drug abuse does not just disappear if we wish it away; and it is influenced by social, clinical and medical factors. Drug prevention is not an exact science. Solutions to addiction are wide and varied, and success rates vary as well. Most every form of treatment has some success, but nothing yet has demonstrated a perfect 100% score for the treatment of addiction. Relapse prevention, however, has been demonstrated to increase effectiveness, and success, of any treatment.
Dual Diagnosis
Dual Diagnosis treatment addresses the severity and intensity of each client’s mental health/substance abuse, affective disorders, personality traits and other factors such as chronic pain and trauma related issues. Clients will learn about medication education and how brain chemistry plays a major role in their recovery and goal of life long sobriety. Our approach to therapy is holistic and focuses on relapse care, identifying the importance of how a client’s physical, mental/emotional, social and spiritual well-being is affected by the positive changes being made.
Each client undergoes an extensive and detailed medical and psychiatric assessment for underlying mental health issues which may be causing or contributing to the client’s history and which may be acting in concert with other addictive disorders, compulsive behaviors and chemical dependency to negatively impact upon the client’s state of health and future prognosis.
When a client is found to be suffering a dual diagnosed disorder such as bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder or depression , they are given the opportunity to address these issues during treatment, thereby creating the potential for understanding and resolution. By combining Relapse Prevention and the latest research regarding co-occurring disorders, the client gets a comprehensive approach to a potentially debilitating disorder. Clinically, we work with a client’s defense mechanisms, attempting to assist the client in shedding their false self and allow their true self to emerge.
Substance Abuse Treatment For Those with Dual Diagnosed Disorders
Our individualized approach in treating alcoholism and/or drug addiction fully takes into account the special needs of individuals with dual diagnosed disorders. Upon admittance, clients are scheduled to meet with a Board Certified Neuropsychiatries and Addictionoligist, together with a full range of other mental health and addiction treatment specialists. The clients’ history and medications are reviewed and adjusted, if need be, in order to stabilize them and allow them to fully participate in their addiction treatment planning and program. Special one on one individual therapy sessions are also scheduled, in addition to the group therapy and special primary groups, which allow a dually diagnosed client to work through some of the special frustrations and issues they must deal with daily. We try to break through the stereotypical labeling a person dealing with mental illness issues must face in today’s society. With depression and post-traumatic stress disorders affecting so many people today, this aspect of addiction treatment can no longer go ignored. Our clients are given opportunities to learn appropriate socialization skills, have access to recreational activities, and develop peer relationships with other people learning to stay sober and live life on life’s terms, one day at a time. Their families are also offered support and education, and encouraged to fully participate in Family Therapy sessions.
Dual Diagnosis and The Family
Drug abuse contributes to family conflict, erodes social support, and generates high levels of expressed emotion, thus disturbing the vitally needed care giving network. A dually diagnosed individual can throw the best of families off balance. Therefore, it is important to provide services for families. Our family program is a vital treatment component. Family members are helped through the difficult realization that they cannot stop their loved one’s substance abuse. They can, however, avoid covering it up or doing things that make it easy for the person to continue the denial. Families can learn what they can do about the problem, but they must face the reality that much of it is out of their hands. With education and understanding, painful emotions will subside, individuals will feel more serene, and life can be less stressful. There is hope.
Family Program
Transformations at Jupiter Counseling is committed to the inclusion of family as an integral part of every client’s treatment plan. The disease of Addiction adversely affects the entire family. At the beginning of a client’s program and upon the client’s consent, the primary therapist contacts the family to orient them to the treatment process and invite their participation in it. Information about the program, the disease process as well as their family member’s treatment is shared. Appointments may be scheduled for family therapy. Referrals may be made to family self-help groups. All family members are invited to participate in the Family Program described below.
The Family Program consists of family counseling sessions with the client’s primary counselor as well as attendance to our Family Support group that meets once weekly, is open to the community and is free of charge. The Family Support group is designed to share information, define processes like co-dependency and enabling, educate about diagnoses and medications and develop new coping strategies for recovery and relapse prevention. “Family” includes but is not limited to parents, spouses, siblings, children, (18 and older), as well as friends, significant others, employers, sponsors or anyone else who may be important to enhance and participate in the client’s treatment and recovery.
FAMILY SUPPORT GROUPS
Your family member’s primary therapist will schedule face to face family meetings at the program or “tele-conferences” over the phone for those families that are long distances away to share information, provide education and address specific concerns/issues related to you and your family. These meetings are scheduled upon admission and frequency of contact will be determined on an individualized basis depending on the client’s need.
Discussion Tools For Couples
Great Expectations
Expectations- the ideas, dreams, and assumptions- you have in marriage can influence your thoughts and actions in ways that can mystify your spouse. You are invited to share these expectations of either yourself, your beloved, or others in each of the following areas. Complete the list on your own, then share your responses with each other. You may use this on your own, or in your counseling sessions to promote communication.
1. In our separate work lives, I expect….
2. Regarding our leisure time together, I expect…..
3. Concerning our joint finances, I expect….
4. With my friends, I expect…..
5. With your friends, I expect…
6. With my family, I expect…
7. With your family, I expect…
8. As to our children, I expect…
9. As to our individual spirituality and religious practice, I expect…
10. As to our family traditions, I expect…
11. Regarding our day to day relationship as husband and wife, I expect…
12. Regarding our love life, I expect…
13. Regarding my expectations, I expect…
14. Regarding your expectations, I expect…
Legal Issues
Legal consequences which arise from behavior attributable to active addiction can include a wide array of criminal and civil matters. Some legal problems come directly from an individual’s direct use of alcohol and drugs (such as possession and DUI), while others may come from the impaired judgment of the user caused by present and/or long term substance abuse.
Examples of the types of legal problems which are often facing substance abusers include: domestic violence , divorce and child custody matters, violations of probation from previous criminal matters , theft , fraud , tax evasion , assaults , business lawsuits , loss of professional licensing and many others.
In situations where criminal charges have or will be filed against an individual (who has a substance abuse problem or dual diagnosis) there are often various options which may be available to such a person as an alternative to a criminal sentence of incarceration. In some cases the Court will agree to send someone to treatment as an “Alternative Sentence”.
Challenges has extensive experience providing invaluable support to individuals and to their attorneys in the preparation of both civil and criminal cases where substance abuse and/or mental health issues are present and relevant to the case.
In both criminal and civil legal matters, our staff is highly experienced working within the Judicial System to provide assessments, reports, case management and expert testimony. We work with the individual’s attorney at every step along the way to assist in the fullest extent possible with his/her preparation of the case. All inquiries are Completely Confidential.
Aftercare Program
Our Aftercare Program is an extension of group therapy following treatment. Clients are invited and encouraged to participate for as long as they would like. One year attendance, at a minimum, is recommended. Aftercare is designed to assist the client in dealing with the issues which occur in everyday life situations while in early recovery, and to continue to work in relapse prevention
workbooks to maintain their awareness of potential relapse trigger issues. We believe this to be an essential component to recovery, and we strongly recommend that all Challenges program graduates participate in this extended aftercare program.
Our Alumni Program plays an integral part in the continued success of our individual clients as well. Alumni meet monthly to plan and organize group activities, social and educational events where they join together to strengthen their support system and new sober lifestyles. Alumni assist active clients in their recovery by speaking in groups, chairing meetings and sponsoring Alumni Activities.