Gorski/CENAPS Relapse Prevention

Following the model of Terry Gorski, the nationally-recognized leader in relapse prevention training, Full Life offers an Early Recovery Group for those with no history of relapse who are in their first 18 months of recovery. Using Gorski's Relapse Prevention Counseling model, group members identify and plan for navigating around high-risk situations, developing a recovery-oriented lifestyle and identifying reaction patterns that could threaten recovery and jump-start relapse-directed thinking. Participants begin with weekly group and twice monthly individual sessions for 9-16 weeks ($400/month) and then begin tapering down based on individual needs (fees adjusted accordingly).  Prescreening is required.

        Early Recovery/Relapse Prevention Group:  Mondays, 6:30-8:30 pm

Similarly, those with a history of relapse are eligible for Gorski's Relapse Prevention Therapy model to help dissect and identify core issues that have contributed to relapse in the past and develop more effective strategies for managing faulty thinking that has led to relapse in the past so that it doesn't lead to relapse in the future. Presently RPT services are available only on an individual basis, but this could change in the future. Individual sessions are weekly ($100/hr).

Recovery Management

In the "old days," we wanted to believe that getting someone into treatment was the most important thing ~ that with treatment, everything would be okay ~ that with treatment, recovery was a sure thing ~ that with treatment, our troubles would be over.

In the last 10 years, research has revealed that it may take more than one experience in treatment to achieve stable and enduring recovery. That is why researchers recommend a "continuous healing relationship with a professional who customizes care according to the patient's needs and values."

Recovery management services include: 
  • Collaboration with treatment counselor in the development of an aftercare plan before treatment ends
  • Periodic assessment of relapse risk
  • Face-to-face recovery support session within 3 days of discharge from treatment
  • Regularly scheduled telephone & face-to-face recovery support sessions
  • Information and linkages with community resources as needed

Additional recovery management services include:

  • Accompanying those new to recovery to local self-help groups during the first week after treatment
  • Periodic drug testing as an incentive to maintain abstinence and/or to call attention to a slip
  • "Learning Sobriety Together" counseling for couples

 

Each one of us is unique. The complexity of the individual fingerprint is the perfect reminder of our individuality. Even the response to alcohol, medications or drugs can be different from person to person and can change over time. Like a glass of wine, a simple joy for one is like poison for another.









Treatment is just the first step in the process of recovery, and continuing care is the key. A professional counselor from Full Life Counseling will join the newly recovering person in the center of the recovery process to offer customized support, encouragement, monitoring and referral.