At New Roads we utilize many modalities to help you discover your true self, but at the core we utilize a treatment community philosophy combined with 12-step, dialectal behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, motivational interviewing and psychiatric oversight to establish your individualized treatment goals. This creates a truly holistic approach, based on the most recent research that is at the core of our clinical programming. It includes life coaching, educational consultation, vocational counseling, and other services focused upon an individual’s needs that are developmentally specific to what you are facing at this point in your life. We do all of this by offering mental health therapy and life coaching in conjunction with our substance abuse counseling. These individual treatment approaches are combined with groups that focus on your own personal identity, your life passions and beliefs, and your own recovery process. Mindfulness and right action taught individually and at a group level also help us create a real and effective relapse prevention plan, and provide additional living strategies to handle emotions, communicate better with others, handle distress and anxiety and effectively begin to organize your thoughts and dreams to put new life plans into action. We have provided some basic information below and you will find a much deeper insight into how you do your individual work as you progress forward at New Roads.

Treatment Community – We utilize a positive and healthy culture as the foundation of our programming design. We do this because it is important for you to feel safe when undergoing such a significant transformation. In order for an individual to learn the skills they will need, it is imperative the treatment environment is safe (free from drugs, violence, discord) and predictable, hallmarked by interactions that are empathetic and caring. Therefore, building accountable and supportive relationships with healthy peers is our highest priority. Within our community we help you understand and live positively with others of diverse backgrounds. In addition, your new relationships provide guidance, structure, limit setting, value clarification, reassurance, and collaboration in working toward your greater autonomy. Your participation in the community places you closer to the real-life situations than do the artificial communities of traditional institutions. In some ways the community itself, consisting of peers and staff who model successful personal change, becomes another member of your treatment team.

12 Step Integration – It’s not just for drugs and alcohol anymore! – The 12 steps have come a long way since the first “Big book”. This is a big part of your focus so your team will help utilize the approach that works. We partner with you to focus on your history and patterns of any mid-altering substance use and how you want to recover. We also recognize that many people have used the 12 steps and not just with issues such as drugs or alcohol. Many people also have what are called Process addictions – In other words it’s not just “if I take this pill” I will feel a certain feeling in 20 minutes and forget I had a major problem to deal with. It’s an addiction to process – where our obsessive mind needs help just as much as physical addiction. Gambling, disordered eating, shopping, pornography, and on-line gaming (world of war craft, Sim City, Second Life) are all examples of things that can easily warp your identity and development the same as any substance.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: The most basic and simply approach to therapy where we meet together and figure out how the interaction of your thoughts, behaviors, and emotions are playing out in your life and effecting how you succeed. With CBT, Your therapist and you work on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that may be stopping you in life.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: An approach that uses CBT methods and steps it forward breaking it down to four areas:

·Mindfulness Meditation Skills. Using a term called “Radical Acceptance” – You learn that it’s all ok for the moment – the practice of accepting yourself, and the things that you feel are “wrong” or need “changed” all at the same time is tough to pull off but DBT teaches core skills that allow you to become both the observer and participant in all that is happening in and around you. It’s a great technique to learn for life in general.

·Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills. A focus on the people around us and how we interact with them. It allows you to have boundaries, ask for what you need and manage conflict and communication in all of your relationships.

·Distress Tolerance Skills. “I am frightened and feel worthless so I will binge eat, or cut, or use drugs” – those were our old “distress skills” ~ this new way lets us accept and tolerate distress without doing anything that will make the whole situation worse.

·Emotion Regulation Skills. This helps us no longer get “hijacked” by our emotions. Instead we can recognize what’s going on, what we are feeling, and no matter how big and overwhelming the emotion might seem to be, we have the ability to identify it and manage it.

Motivational Interviewing – We feel strong this technique is the best way to help you, because instead of everything being suggested from the outside- we ask questions and partner with you to find approaches and answers that really work from within your own experience. Especially if this is not your first time working through an issue or dealing with a problem, we want to know what is at your core and in your gut as a way to resolve and solve problems and issues. This approach fits with our other modalities by putting you in-charge of your life.

Life Coaching – Coaching is having someone there in a nuts and bolts way to help you figure out the workings of your life, and even your dreams. Coaching is not meant to be targeted at psychological illness or a history of addictive behaviors, although almost any subject is welcomed in your coaching sessions. Through these, you pinpoint what’s most important to you. Thoughts, words, and deeds become the future you so even though it’s been tough in the past – we have the one to one “sounding board” to now adjust as you go. No judgment, just help. You may go in one direction and then want to go another way – it’s all about the search for you.

Medical Oversight – This is an integral part of treatment for any true interdisciplinary team. At New Roads we recognize that many people have co-occurring mental health issues that left unattended will set back the entire recovery process. Our team provides specialized, age and developmentally appropriate support for those who need it. We utilize past history, present problems and a comprehensive assessment so we can help with everything from mild depression to complex psychiatric histories. Many young adults often have experienced trauma and physical and/or sexual abuse in addition to their addiction histories and as a result, may have more complex disorders or symptoms. We reach out and help you and your family learn about how to work with a diagnosis, how to monitor your own meds and how to keep this area of your life stable by using appropriate support, therapeutic guidance, education, treatment, and life skills. We help create a plan for disorders that include but are not limited to:

· Substance use and impulse control disorders,

· Depressive and mood disorders (Bi-polar, depression, etc…)

· Anxiety

· Panic or Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD)

· Phobias and self-injurious tendencies

· Attention Deficit Disorder /Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder

· Affective Dysregulation